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The left is using the movie to promote “end hunger” campaigns rather than the tyranny that produces it.
I saw the movie, without reading the book.
I found it interesting, but disturbing.
Also I kept thinking “ after 4 more years of Obama” !!
Hey, that’s very cool, thanks for posting it.
I like it that reporters come here to check out the thoughts of grass-roots conservatives. (And I was on that thread, so now I feel.....almost famous!)
I like to be fully prepared for those dinner table discussions.
Alright, which one of yous mis-spelled heroes ?
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I am looking forward to the sequel, The Fatty Games.
The Plot: America has been destroyed by electing a totalitarian president, who is both incompetent, overspending, and fanatically embraces really stupid ideas. And while America lies in ruins, deeply in debt, the president decides to use “circuses”, if not “bread” to keep the rest of the country in line.
So he asks his equally dictatorial wife to create a games based on her equally bizarre ideas. And this is what she comes up with:
“Since everyone may only eat the ‘healthy’ food that we decide they can eat, leaving them starving weak and emaciated, what we call ‘healthy’, we will arrest those who have been traitorously eating food they want to eat instead. This will not be easy, as they will be strong, muscular and violent.
“Then we force them to fight each other, and force the winners to eat the losers! This will teach them to defy the elites, who only want what is best for everyone equally. Because we are kind, gentle, fair and much, much smarter than everyone else.”
I don’t think the books are conservative; they are not liberal. The books are interesting though, and can make you think about how a society can get so messed up.
The movie was unfortunately little more than a teen romance movie, cutting all the subtlety and doubt that the book revealed. The movie also made the girl a “stronger” character, more in charge of her actions, and more the heroine. They weakened the boy’s part.
In the book, the girl is more lucky than good, except she happens to have some skill with a bow.