[Yardstick]

Choice quote from the Socialist Worker review:

Yet Collins always paints a picture of a collective struggle--whether it's describing the way in which the districts can cut off the supply of their industry to the Capitol in order to really take a stance; or whether it's a collective symbol--a song, a mockingjay or a fire--that galvanizes the entire country against the 1 percent.

Even as the trilogy nears its end, Katniss struggles with the question of what type of alternative is there. This isn't a book about a workers' revolution, but it is about revolution and class struggle. And Katniss is a sometimes conscious, yet often unconscious, revolutionary.

Hollywood is predictable as clockwork in its leftist ways. This movie should be called Occupy the Hunger Games.

[Shelayne]

That review completely misses the mark. They had to have just skimmed the series to come up with that pablum. Next we'll hear about how it's a parable about the homosexual struggle.

*eyeroll*

[Yardstick]

Meanwhile here's the money quote from Ed Morrisey's review at Hot Air:

"I’m sure it’s meant as an allegory for war as well as class exploitation, but it’s both ridiculous and grotesque. Given that The Hunger Games provides us nothing about almost all of the other 22 children in the games, it feels like they get treated by the film much the same way they get treated by the ruling class — as cannon fodder for their own purposes."

So a smart conservative commentator is seeing the same themes that are making the moonbats at Socialist Worker so giddy. This film is about war (i.e. it's anti war) and class exploitation. In other words, it is leftist to the hilt. Any conservatives who imagine this film is teaching a conservative message have been suckered.