Posted on 09/09/2012 6:32:28 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
It’s a shame, really - the movie was a lot of fun.
But, then, it seems one cannot expect people who indulge in make believe for a living - and an opulent living at that - to demonstrate the capacity for cool and rational thought in the real world.
Funny, when I read the book I couldn’t stop thinking about the powers of a big government that can force a citizenry to watch and participate in a system of mandatory murder and total manipulation. Do you think Sutherland donated his bonanza to a Toronto food bank or homeless shelter?
And yet it was the GOVERNMENT that was bloated and rich and exploiting everyone else in the books and the movie.
Sweet sweet tear of Libtard derangement...
And here is what it means to be a liberal.
The folks who adorn their walls with images of Che are the same folks who place the nations healthcare in the hands of unelected bureaucrats.
The evil they claim to see in others, they simply cannot, or will not see in themselves
Hey Oddball... “stop with them negatives waves baby”!
LLS
Only watched the movie. Jennifer Lawrence is fine for one’s eyes.
I find it interesting (full disclosure: haven’t read the book or seen the movie), that libs go out of their way to tell the folks who saw the movie that, “you didn’t see what you thought you saw.” Or, “THIS is really what you saw.”
It was, as was the book.
Problem is, too many people found a conservative message in the movie so the producers had to chime in and tell us this wasn't really what they meant. Oops.
re: I find it interesting (full disclosure: havent read the book or seen the movie), that libs go out of their way to tell the folks who saw the movie that, you didnt see what you thought you saw. Or, THIS is really what you saw.
Libs did the same thing for the movie “Wag the Dog”.
Party affiliation is irrelevant to the workings of our government. The agenda progresses regardless.
Is he kidding? The Hunger Games are subconsciously making the next generation deathly afraid of a strong centralized government. The main nemeisis is an all powerful national government, using drones and troops against its own people. All the money and resources are siphoned to this strong centralized area while the zones live in squalor and submission. A lot of currently teenage girls should be joinng the ranks of the tea party in about 10 years if my theory is right.
They blame Republicans for their oppression yet the wealthiest of the wealthy in this country mostly Leftist Democrats like Sutherland.
Socialism is for the people not the Socialist.
How come some petulant dorkweed gets to insert his political nasty into a major film?
The investors should be financially punished when they fail to clean out the gratuitous snot from these otherwise outstanding productions.
The author ripped the concept off from another book from 1999, called Battle Royale.
I have read all three books, and I don’t see how any of that could happen under a Conservative/Libertarian society. First of all the GOVERNEMNT runs everything in Panem. There are no corporations, people do not have the freedom to live where they want, they don’t have the freedom to ANYTHING they want, the people can’t have guns, only the authorities can have a gun. People can be killed for hunting. People can be killed for talking bad about the government. The people living in the districts work for the GOVERNMENT, and the Government forcefully distributes the wealth and produce of each district to the surrounding districts. Meanwhile food is rationed by the government. While the people at the top, and the people who live in the Capitol get the best of everything and live it up.
The Hunger Games trilogy has more in common with Communism than Free Market Capitalism.
The capitol in “Hunger Games” is definitely liberal.
* body modification (mostly liberal except military tattoos) * utter concentration of people into small zones (liberal/fascist Agenda 21)
* idealization of nature as people free and protection of animals, to the point that starving people are whipped for hunting for food or mutilated into avox
* the rulers rule but consider military service beneath them (using sector 2 people as peacekeepers unless a citizen is deeply in debt), whereas conservatives value service
Yep. No question. Liberals are the absolute one-percenters. They worship the concept of an ‘informed oligarchy’ - the one percent - who tell the rest of us how to live. Well, with absolute honesty I can say that I would rather not live than to live like that - under them.
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