Leftists like woodie barrel on made the movie
The problem for them is they are so insane far left- that they thought this was like a 99%er message. Leftists are always the good guys in their wacko world view.
Normal people see it - and think big government central control leftists - like Obama. Opposite of the intent.
Kind of funny.
My daughter-in-law gave me the books to read and I did. It took me a while to get started because I was told that it was a kids series and a silly story. My daughter-in-law convinced me that what I had heard was wrong. She has given me a lot of books to read and I have never been disappointed that I read them, so I started reading. What a page turner series. It was too easy for me to exchange Washington DC for Capital City. While I was looking forward to seeing the movie made from the series I had low expectations. How often does the movie even approach the book, not very often. This movie is different. I felt it captured the atmosphere of the book. The scenes of the districts compared to the Capital City were chilling.
One of the scenes that tell of the oppressiveness of the government, the protagonist is out in the forest, it is beautiful. The want-a-be boyfriend suggest they run off into the forest to live in seclusion. “They would find us” she says.
We know right then and there that governments suppress individual rights with loss of life rather lose control of even one person or couple.
Another good example of the evils of big government, even better displayed in the movie was the peace keepers man-handling the tributes even after they got to the opulent city.
The riot scene in District 11 was chilling. It was not occupy Wall Street. It was truly oppressed slaves turning on their masters despite the death and destruction that would be caused by their demonstration.
I hope that having read the book made me understand what was happening a little better but in a discussion with one of my kids who had not read the series, he seemed to understand what was going on very well without having read it first.
I’m glad the series was and is popular. I hope a lot of kids read it, they will be afraid of their government forever if they do. They will always hate “Big Brother”.
After seeing the first installation of “Atlas Shrugged” I was really disappointed. I didn’t really expect much more from this movie. Even when the movie is bad it is fun to see someone else’s view of a book you read. With this movie, “The Hunger Games”, the movie was the book. This, to me is best adaptation of a book I have ever seen. If you haven’t seen it yet you should.