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.
I disagree. If anything it shows the one percenters as the government sucking the people dry, and you can easily see Obama as the laughing, mocking MC (rather than President Snow) and Michelle as the decadent royalty. Go see the movie for yourself and post back after your have.
OMG. You couldn’t be more wrong. Read the books/trilogy.
Maybe it’s not propoganda for either side or any side in between?
It’s a great story. It’s sorta sad you can’t see that, and since you haven’t read the books or seen the first movie I probably should replied to you. But I did. So I’m more of a fool than you.