Everyone has their own opinion, but you couldn't be more off the target in the comparison of conservative reaction to Avatar vs. Hunger Games. I have personally seen both films. Avatar was a leftwing, anti-military, enviro crazy piece of vacuous drivel. Hunger Games is a loud warning against the evils of an oppressive dictatorial government that takes all from its subjects to support its decadence and the strength of the individual to resist and provide the spark to rebellion which is simmering just below the surface.
Hunger Games is a loud warning against the evils of an oppressive dictatorial government that takes all from its subjects to support its decadence and the strength of the individual to resist and provide the spark to rebellion which is simmering just below the surface.
Nice sentence. But it just as easily could have been written by an Occupier, or a Bolshevik in 1917. There's no doubt this movie is attempting to glorify the notion of rebellion against "the system". But you have to understand that rebellion against the system isn't a uniquely conservative concept. This movie is agitating for revolution, but not the American revolution. This movie is about Rousseau, not Locke. There's a reason they have the hostess of the Games done up as a powdered aristocrat like Marie Antoinette. They want to stir up class anger at the one-percenter chickenhawks who send lower class kids off to be "reaped" -- i.e. sent off to war (this is the analogy at the heart of the movie). They want to show how the one percenters turn the 99% against each another in order to thwart the class solidarity required to defeat the system. Etc.. Clearly a leftist film.