Topic: How can people get into a movie or book that has to do with children killing...
Topic Posted by: Cindy G
Date Posted: Tue Apr 24 10:16:22 2012
Additional Comments: other children? What is all the hype with the Hunger Games? My niece, a mother and a teacher started a topic about it on Facebook. Everyone responding loved the movie and can't set the books down. The concept of the movie seems horrible to me.
Producer Nina Jacobson told a fan forum that the movie will be made for the core audience of 12- to 18-year-olds, and director Gary Ross ("Seabiscuit") has said he will aim for a PG-13 rating. "I don't need to have a huge prosthetic budget or make this movie incredibly bloody in order for it to be just as compelling, just as scary and just as riveting," he told MTV.
I'm assuming the pro HG comments here were made by adults30+. (HG IS RATED PG13)The majority attending I would bet are not as literate as our posters.
Someone mentioned a similar reaction to something in the 1940s. Not exactly. The killing of children was rarely in the news unlike now.
Posted by: Ginger G Date posted: Thu Apr 26 15:59:38 2012
Message:
Spoiler alert...
The main themes of the Hunger Games trilogy is that we should never allow a corrupt government take over and become too powerful. The Games are enforced on the population to punish them for a previous revolt. The district people become increasingly enraged and horrified by what is being done to them and their children and eventually rebel again, this time successfully. The idea of children being forced to battle to the death is pretty implausible, but there is an important lesson to be reminded of... "that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Posted by: CleoJ Date posted: Wed Apr 25 19:51:15 2012
Message: I downloaded a sample to my Kindle long before the movie came out and I had the same reaction as yourself. I was immediately turned off and I could not go through with reading the book. There's no chance of me seeing the movie.
Posted by: Cindi94 Date posted: Wed Apr 25 13:44:12 2012
Message: The fact that there is a reality show wherein children are forced by the government to kill each other is a very integral part of the story. You don't understand....you are SUPPOSED to be horrified by that concept. It is designed to make you think about our own society and what we find entertaining.
Have you ever heard of the classic short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson? Same concept. Same reaction from people, back in the 1940s.
Posted by: katiesbeach Date posted: Wed Apr 25 12:37:39 2012
Message: It's not a whole lot different from that movie 'The Handmaid's Tale' that they made in to a movie a while back. Women were forced in to submission to try and re-produce.
Posted by: Jolypha Date posted: Wed Apr 25 11:01:17 2012
Message: I thought the same but went and thoroughly enjoyed the movie. So much so that I want to read the book series and see the movie again.
Posted by: Glitter Date posted: Tue Apr 24 15:39:36 2012
Message: "The Hunger Games" is just another distraction. This will never play out as a possibility of becoming reality.
Posted by: Peridot Date posted: Tue Apr 24 12:33:27 2012
Message: I've read all three Hunger Games books and loved them. The premise of teens being forced to fight to the death bothered me a little, but it is, after all, fantasy, just like Harry Potter, the Twilight novels, and tons of other stuff popular with teens. The story is supposed to be based on the Minotaur of Greek mythology, to whom the Cretans were to sacrifice a number of young men and women each year. Contrary to some folks (and they're entitled to their opinion), I don't believe reading these stories makes kids violent any more than reading Harry Potter leads them into witchcraft. Like the Harry Potter kids, the kids in the Hunger Games forge strong friendships and make big sacrifices for the people they love. That aspect has made more of an impression on me than the violence.
