Fear is a good medicine-"The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire"

Jeffry 2022-03-21 09:01:08

After watching The Hunger Games 2, I feel more surprised. It seems to be agreed that the rhythm of The Hunger Games 2 is exactly the same as The Hunger Games 1. In fact, the two films were not made by the same director, and the different styles of the two directors can even be seen from the pictures and colors. However, the author still likes this rhythm. The first 80 minutes of prelude and foreshadowing are supreme enjoyment for the author, while the process of the Hunger Games for more than 50 minutes is a torment. The author almost left the scene angrily. Fortunately, I resisted it, so I was lucky to see the superb acting skills of the young Oscar queen at the last moment of the movie.
This is a movie made for teenagers. Even if it is the original, the focus is not on how to kill. So people who want to see the brutal and bloody killing game will definitely find this movie boring. Obviously the author is this kind of person. But the author is very different from those people. Compared with the murder scene that can be seen in another movie, the author is more looking forward to the expression of the movie's theme. The collision of ideas can shock the soul more than the impact of vision!
What is the Hunger Games? This is the second time the author has raised this question. The author has not read the original book, so I cannot find the answer from the book, and the author does not want to have any disputes with the original party members here. No matter how far the film is from the original, this is not something I care about. In The Hunger Games 2, these questions have been further answered.
The author once wrote that this is a game to control the hope of the people, and behind the hope, there is fear. People will fear that the day of their dreams will never come. The Hunger Games has no winners, only survivors. And that political survivor, although he has been given the glory and wealth, will become the running dog of the beneficiary country and go to every region to declare the ruling class's compassion to the people. The rulers designed such a game to shift the eyes of the people from the hope of resistance to the fear of their children being chosen as tributes. Because of fear, you chose to escape and let yourself become a person who doesn’t distinguish between right and wrong. You don’t know, you never know, how courage it takes to walk on the right path. People who have been ruled and oppressed for 75 years are fleeing. The heroine has even found a way to escape, but she has never tried it.
The author wrote in a previous article that the heroine is a carefully selected champion. And this picker, I always thought it was the president. Thinking about it now, I was wrong. The person who chooses the heroine to become the champion is actually the heroine's mentor Hei Mi. He planned the false love between the male and female lords in order to gain the support of the people in the Congress District. But it can be expected that the heroine alone is not enough. Although she was designed to be the incarnation of a mocking bird, the spiritual leader of resistance, she was still held firmly in the hands of the president.
Therefore, there is such a huge chess game in The Hunger Games 2, a plan to rescue the heroine. The rebels became the new game designers and designed a more cruel game for the past game champions to participate. Half of the participants in the game know the truth about the plan. They are probably all members of the Resistance Army, and the other half are probably still hesitating. Those who knew the truth all chose to become the heroine's allies. In fact, this game is also a test for the heroine, to see if she is really coerced by the president to become a running dog, and at the same time, she must completely arouse the will to resist in her heart. Fortunately, she did not kill allies as the president expected.
You are angry because of fear. When the anger reaches its extreme point, you will lose your senses, become frantic, and resist desperately. Just a catalyst can arouse all the anger buried in the people's hearts. So the game designer told the president to thoroughly clean the material black market in 12 areas, increase penalties, and make it impossible for the insurgents to survive.
In Hunger Games 1, because of Lu's death, the people in District 11 began to agitate. In the second part, the heroine's parade not only did not soothe the people as the president had imagined, but provoked more doubts. Therefore, it is necessary to continue to create fierce materials, to make the people of the 12 regions extremely panic and then furious, and even to provoke the anger of the people in the Congress District. This is the true face of this century's battle for supremacy. Of the 24 past champions, which is not the darling of the people of the Congress District, they have all been promised by the government to enjoy the rest of their lives, but they are all ruthlessly broken at this moment. So on the reality show, everyone played sensational under the planning of the black secret song in an attempt to win the absolute support of the people in the Congress district. When Effie told the hostess that we are a team, when Sinner designed the mockingbird dress for the hostess and sacrificed for it, and when the audience at the reality show screamed to cancel the game, I know that the president has lost the Congress District The support of the people.
The author has been saying that only 12 regions participated in the competition. By the Hunger Games 2, the 13 regions that were wiped out in the last resistance finally surfaced. Death is the eternal existence. The 13th district is like a ghost, hiding in the shadow of the Congress and becoming a base for the rebel army. 13 is really an interesting number, symbolizing misfortune and betrayal, but also symbolizing opposition and resistance!
At the end of the film, the eyes and expressions of the heroine gradually changed from confusion and avoidance to determination and determination. The leader of resistance was finally born, and fierce resistance was finally about to unfold.
If hope is the poison of the ruler, then fear is the antidote to the resistance. Depressed emotions need to be vented, and resistance is the best form. It's death anyway, it's better to let your heart fall, frustrate and violently resist, and pull all the rulers and oppressors from the endless hell!

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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire quotes

  • Katniss Everdeen: I just wanted to say that I didn't know Thresh, I only spoke to him once. He could have killed me, but instead he showed me mercy. That's a debt I'll never be able to repay. I did know Rue. She wasn't just my ally, she was my friend. I see her in the flowers that grow in the meadow by my house. I hear her in the Mockingjay song. I see her in my sister Prim. She was too young, too gentle, and I couldn't save her. I'm sorry.

  • Finnick Odair: Katniss.

    Katniss Everdeen: Hello, Finnick.

    Finnick Odair: Do you want a sugar cube? I mean it's supposed to be for the horses, but... I mean who cares about them, right? They got years to eat sugar, whereas you and I... well, if we see something sweet we better grab it.

    Katniss Everdeen: No thanks, but I would love to borrow that outfit someday.

    Finnick Odair: You look pretty terrifying in that get up. What happened to the pretty little girl dresses?

    Katniss Everdeen: I outgrew them.

    Finnick Odair: You certainly did. Shame about this quell thing. Now you... you could have made out like a bandit in the Capitol. Jewels, money, anything you wanted.

    Katniss Everdeen: Well, I don't like jewels and I have more money than I need, so... What did you do with all your wealth anyway?

    Finnick Odair: I haven't dealt in anything as common as money in years.

    Katniss Everdeen: Well, then, how do people pay for the pleasure of your company?

    Finnick Odair: With secrets. What about you, Girl on Fire? Any secrets worth my time?

    Katniss Everdeen: I'm an open book. Everybody always seems to know my secrets before I know them myself.

    Finnick Odair: Unfortunately, I think that's true. I'm sorry you had to cancel your wedding. I know how devastating that must be for you. Have a good day.

    [Peeta walks up to them]

    Finnick Odair: [exiting] Peeta.

    Peeta Mellark: Finnick. What'd he want?

    Katniss Everdeen: To know all my secrets.

    Peeta Mellark: Hm. Have to get in line.