The Hunger Games Movie Critics and Review
The surprise of The Hunger Games was that you do not live up to its publicity campaign - was that you will play as the hype it has never existed, probably the more difficult to performances a great movie can bring out these days. The picture takes place in a dystopian future, under a dictatorship called Panem, which is one sneaky version of what was previously the United States. The richest and most preferred citizens living in the capital of Panem - named, suitably, Capitol - while all the other goes out in 12 districts for all residents surrounding the Capitol that you may need, from the food to coal to luxury goods. At a certain point in the history of Panem, of the subordinates in districts in rebellion, the French-style revolution. As punishment, each neighborhood provides two hours of young people aged between 12 and 18; a boy and a girl chosen by raffle for compete in an annual televised event called The Hunger Games. The young, called Tributes by killing one another in a carefully controlled stages until only one standing on the left: That child should be praised for his home district - and, especially, food.
As allegory go, this is quite simple, especially in the age of 99%, even though neither Collins nor Gary Ross, director of the film version, really do need to focus trounce: The objective of the book and the movie is the story: If ideas are larger than elephants free, at least from the story that, instead of hiding the fleshy hips. Jennifer Lawrence plays 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a resident of the poorest part of Panem, District 12, which has specialized in manufacturing of coal - father Katniss', a miner, was murdered in a mining accident that the young woman of defending the family with its skills archery to hunt game at Cracker Jack (illegally) in the nearby forest. Prim's sister Katniss surprisingly young and extremely fragile 'was chosen in order to compete in the Hunger Games - the ads are done in a national holiday well known, creepy, such as the day of collection - Katniss advances as a volunteer, desperately searching for Prim place to be taken.
Her male counterpart of the baker's son Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson, who played Laser, Annette Bening and Julianne Moore’s son in The Kids Are All Right), and complication, as one can imagine, is that he sort-of-the key was in love with Katniss since childhood. Now the two rivals will be life and death, and Katniss’ mistrust of Peeta’s motives, complicated with their feelings confusing, given its highly independent nature, gives the film a certain number of strong bones, but good. The Hunger Games can offer a variety of reasonably be successful metaphorical statements on the class in this country, and the house-of-cards rudeness of reality - but in the end, it works with his skillful handling of a more universal theme: This is a strange film about a girl that just is not sure that he could trust a guy, the most loyal to the spirit of the Shirelles as is the Greek myth.
There is action here, and much of vitality which you can really feel the spirit of the book of Collins' and the concept of entertainment such as film is - or should be - outside of the simple movie marketing. Ross earlier led us in 1998 Pleasantville, Seabiscuit surface as a disappointing 2003, and there are ways that The Hunger Games (whose screenplay was adapted, with Collins and Billy Ray) feels professionally, rather than genuinely innovative. First, Ross exaggerates the handheld camera, especially in scenes that are regarded intimate and profoundly emotional: When Katniss gets Prim prepared for his first harvest Day, fold in the tail of the shirt kind of girl with tenderness efficiently than the best older sisters in their DNA. The family lives into what appears to a simple wooden house, if not a hut. In the book, Collins notes that District 12 is located in what was called the Appalachia, and as the film emphasizes that at all, but it certainly imply so much: Ross and cinematographer Tom Stern channel the mood of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange with their muted, though not bleached, color palette and simple compositions. (James Newton Howard wrote the soundtrack for the film sober, and there is additional music roots-music specialist T. Bone Burnett, who says anything about the efforts of images to capture the aura of this uniquely American landscape.) Ross' instincts are so good that you wonder, especially in the neighborhood of 12 scenes, it was not only the lives of the camera tripod in the damned: the silence would have been classic and elegant and the most suitable to the emotional tone and texture of this part of the story.
Nevertheless, there is much in The Hunger Games, which Ross takes precedence. He understands the nature of visual stories, in the trust of the audience to follow the story without illustrating every little thing in effective dialogue. He trusts us to take you to narrate the details - such as lace, little girl anklets worn by the young Tribute, a candle called Rue (beautifully played by a young actress Amandla Stenberg), when it is shown on his pre-race television interview. And The Hunger Games, luckily, does not suffer from overproductionitis. The picture, as the book is based on, has some fantastical elements: the shiny glossy, futuristic buildings of the Capitol, a competition arena that resembles the natural world, but can be controlled by engineers for creating additional challenges for participants, such as rolling balls of fire and screaming creatures which are half dog, half lion, yet, is usually based on a kind of naturalism apparently comforting. These trees resemble real trees; the sun certainly appears to brighter and strong. Their fame only adds to the meaning is the story of threats, especially when it is really bad, because it necessarily: At one point a crew of Katniss bloody toll has risen around a tree for safety, warning their members to. "To kill" the action in the Hunger Games is often a bit 'of confusion - it is sometimes hard to tell who is where. But Ross is responsible for giving the violence - and this is ok, but visceral - the correct amount of weight. Why are these young people and other young people? And a scene, especially, evokes just the right degree of Ophelia floating-down-the-river grace - the easiest flowers as a kind of blessing.
As allegory go, this is quite simple, especially in the age of 99%, even though neither Collins nor Gary Ross, director of the film version, really do need to focus trounce: The objective of the book and the movie is the story: If ideas are larger than elephants free, at least from the story that, instead of hiding the fleshy hips. Jennifer Lawrence plays 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, a resident of the poorest part of Panem, District 12, which has specialized in manufacturing of coal - father Katniss', a miner, was murdered in a mining accident that the young woman of defending the family with its skills archery to hunt game at Cracker Jack (illegally) in the nearby forest. Prim's sister Katniss surprisingly young and extremely fragile 'was chosen in order to compete in the Hunger Games - the ads are done in a national holiday well known, creepy, such as the day of collection - Katniss advances as a volunteer, desperately searching for Prim place to be taken.
Her male counterpart of the baker's son Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson, who played Laser, Annette Bening and Julianne Moore’s son in The Kids Are All Right), and complication, as one can imagine, is that he sort-of-the key was in love with Katniss since childhood. Now the two rivals will be life and death, and Katniss’ mistrust of Peeta’s motives, complicated with their feelings confusing, given its highly independent nature, gives the film a certain number of strong bones, but good. The Hunger Games can offer a variety of reasonably be successful metaphorical statements on the class in this country, and the house-of-cards rudeness of reality - but in the end, it works with his skillful handling of a more universal theme: This is a strange film about a girl that just is not sure that he could trust a guy, the most loyal to the spirit of the Shirelles as is the Greek myth.
There is action here, and much of vitality which you can really feel the spirit of the book of Collins' and the concept of entertainment such as film is - or should be - outside of the simple movie marketing. Ross earlier led us in 1998 Pleasantville, Seabiscuit surface as a disappointing 2003, and there are ways that The Hunger Games (whose screenplay was adapted, with Collins and Billy Ray) feels professionally, rather than genuinely innovative. First, Ross exaggerates the handheld camera, especially in scenes that are regarded intimate and profoundly emotional: When Katniss gets Prim prepared for his first harvest Day, fold in the tail of the shirt kind of girl with tenderness efficiently than the best older sisters in their DNA. The family lives into what appears to a simple wooden house, if not a hut. In the book, Collins notes that District 12 is located in what was called the Appalachia, and as the film emphasizes that at all, but it certainly imply so much: Ross and cinematographer Tom Stern channel the mood of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange with their muted, though not bleached, color palette and simple compositions. (James Newton Howard wrote the soundtrack for the film sober, and there is additional music roots-music specialist T. Bone Burnett, who says anything about the efforts of images to capture the aura of this uniquely American landscape.) Ross' instincts are so good that you wonder, especially in the neighborhood of 12 scenes, it was not only the lives of the camera tripod in the damned: the silence would have been classic and elegant and the most suitable to the emotional tone and texture of this part of the story.
Nevertheless, there is much in The Hunger Games, which Ross takes precedence. He understands the nature of visual stories, in the trust of the audience to follow the story without illustrating every little thing in effective dialogue. He trusts us to take you to narrate the details - such as lace, little girl anklets worn by the young Tribute, a candle called Rue (beautifully played by a young actress Amandla Stenberg), when it is shown on his pre-race television interview. And The Hunger Games, luckily, does not suffer from overproductionitis. The picture, as the book is based on, has some fantastical elements: the shiny glossy, futuristic buildings of the Capitol, a competition arena that resembles the natural world, but can be controlled by engineers for creating additional challenges for participants, such as rolling balls of fire and screaming creatures which are half dog, half lion, yet, is usually based on a kind of naturalism apparently comforting. These trees resemble real trees; the sun certainly appears to brighter and strong. Their fame only adds to the meaning is the story of threats, especially when it is really bad, because it necessarily: At one point a crew of Katniss bloody toll has risen around a tree for safety, warning their members to. "To kill" the action in the Hunger Games is often a bit 'of confusion - it is sometimes hard to tell who is where. But Ross is responsible for giving the violence - and this is ok, but visceral - the correct amount of weight. Why are these young people and other young people? And a scene, especially, evokes just the right degree of Ophelia floating-down-the-river grace - the easiest flowers as a kind of blessing.
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