[Yardstick]

What makes it a leftie movie is they take pains to portray Panem's government as a right wing government -- a mixture of artistocratic, fascist, and decadent capitalist. Like they have the hostess lady done up as a kind of powdered Marie Antoinette just so you get the point early on. When the troops hose down the race rioters in the middle of the movie, they are wearing snappy white uniforms with jack boots. And of course the goverment exploits the lower classes (represented by Appalachian coal miner types, the ultimate symbol of the virtuous exploited poor, who in real life were assisted by Roosevelt and the TVA but here are left abandoned to their poverty) for profit and entertainment. The movie does have an "individual versus The System" theme, but it's the leftist version of that theme because the ruling class is right wing (or a leftist caricature of right wing). That said, there's enough ambiguity that you can probably read into it whatever ideological perspective you want to some extent. But to me the most natural one is a 99% versus the 1% kind of thing.

[LS]

Didn’t see that at all. The Marie Antoinette? Totally a leftist babe. And if you read the books, ALL the districts are treated like dirt: it’s EXTREMELY states rights vs. federal government sort of thing.