Before that, many people had high expectations for this movie. The North American box office hit $150 million in its opening weekend, surpassing the Twilight series. I thought a movie that stood the test of the market would not be bad. As a result, "The Hunger Games" still failed to get rid of the Hollywood blockbuster-style follow-up.
Granted, I didn't expect The Hunger Games to be a terrific hit, but the disparity between the beginning and the end is more than enough for me. The unfinished ending is unbelievably set by the same director. Although the audience has become accustomed to the whimsical and rudeness of Hollywood screenwriters, such an unreasonable setting of the hero and heroine's emotional line (the heroine reunites with the hero overnight, before they are still facing each other with swords), it is just like the arrogant and innocent show in the movie Producers, in general, arbitrarily tamper with the rules of the game to an outrageous degree.
Many people compare this film to "Battle Royale". But for example, the propositions of the college entrance examination, although the core is the same, but the finished products are very different. The author of the original book, Suzanne Collins, is very clever in blurring the details of the sci-fi colors, focusing on the inner resistance of the characters. And in the first third of the movie, with the shaking shots, the confused eyes of the heroine fill the atmosphere of depression and bitterness. It's a pity that it overemphasizes how the heroine smoothes her edges and corners in an entertaining program and learns to please the audience, which makes the theme of resistance that could have been deeply digged a lot weaker.
The film is set in the future North America. The local 12 districts were forced to provide a pair of boys and girls to the center every year to participate in the Hunger Games. At the beginning of the film, the oppressed workers biting their cheeks, with the badges of wheat ears on the edges, these metaphorical details made me think that there must be an anti-oppression scene next. It's a pity that there are so few in this video. Less than five minutes of smashing and looting. But if you see Lionsgate's next movie plans, it will be clear. The future four-part series plan is bound to pave the way for the sequel. Maybe next year we'll see the heroine and her boyfriends lead a revolt. But seriously, when the first film was so boring, would anyone really watch the second one?
I have to sigh once again that selling youth is always a powerful medicine. Both Mr. Guo and the screenwriter of "The Hunger Games" know this well. It is better to watch young men and women show their embarrassing luck and expressionless stubbornness instead of watching the revolution of bitterness and hatred. The daydream of uncompromising heroism to society, everyone has had. It doesn't matter whether his plot is reasonable or not, and whether his performance is in place. For youngsters, 140 minutes, $70 million to make, no matter if it's a cone of popcorn for entertainment.
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