When watching the movie in the theater, when the plot developed to the point where the contestants were placed in a virtual Hunger Games space, I deliberately took a peek at the watch in my hand with the help of the light reflected from the screen, and then did a quick mental calculation of the deadline. Time the film has run so far: 80 minutes. In other words, the film spends more than half of its length to pave the way for the subsequent plot. Some viewers may feel that the preceding foreshadowing is too long and procrastinated, making the plot not compact. In fact, if you think about it carefully, these seemingly procrastinating foreshadowings are indispensable.
In the first 80 minutes of the plot, countless lines and details are paving the way for the subsequent development of the story. For example, when the heroine Katniss was on the way to the Congressional District in an armored car, there was a wall that read "The odds are never in our favors." The president complained that the school uniform his granddaughter wore was not good-looking, The granddaughter replied that it was "uniformly mandatory for the whole school" and so on, and all the details conveyed a theme: the brainwashing of the authorities and the awakening of public consciousness and contempt for the elimination of diversity. At the same time, the first 80 minutes of the film is mainly to accumulate emotions for the protagonist in the film and the audience outside the screen. After these emotions are accumulated to a certain extent, they will erupt at the end of the film. The president's repeated threats, the brutal beating of her boyfriend, the lives of civilians being treated like a must, and the violence is ubiquitous. All of this stimulates the emotions of Katniss and the audience, waiting for the right moment to explode. At first, Katniss and Peeta made speeches in various districts of the country and acted as the mouthpieces of the state apparatus to appease the resistance of the people. One of the people raised a gesture of approval and hope, and all the people responded immediately and were immediately killed by the authorities. A woman in one district yelled "You're lying, we want to hear what you really think!" to Katniss during the show. The emotions of the people are accumulating, and so are the emotions of the audience. Later, in front of the camera, in front of the national audience, she turned her white wedding dress into a black mockingbird dress and made a mocking resistance to those in power. When the dome is reached, it indicates that the rebellious wave of sparks of fire is about to show a prairie prairie. Therefore, this kind of resistance to tyranny in the film has a gradual accumulation and gradual development process, and it is not a day's work. If the foreshadowing in front of the film is cut in half, it will not affect the narrative, but will make the plot more compact, but the power of this emotional accumulation will be greatly weakened accordingly.
In the most exciting "Hunger Games" segment of the film, the director also largely abandoned the display of the murderous spectacle that competed under the brutal jungle law of survival of the fittest, and more of the dramatic conflict was transferred to these game contestants and On the contradictory confrontation of the game controller. This part of the "Jungle Game" adopts alliance operations, and focuses more on cooperation within the team, but lacks intrigue and mutual killing, so the audience sees the mutual assistance and cooperation between members of the alliance in the film, allowing the audience to Completely forget that this is a brutal killing game match. But this is still a cruel game of the weak and the strong, and there will always be people who will be eliminated in the game. How these eliminated people were eliminated, the film does not use too much pen and ink to render their death process, but shows the photos of the eliminated people through the curtain in the sky. One of the competitors in the film repeatedly emphasized "please don't forget who our enemy is", which at first felt very abrupt, but was actually paving the way for the plot of the final story.
Compared with most of the contestants in the first part, the contestants in "The Hunger Games 2: Catching Fire" seem to be less willing to play cards according to the routine, often breaking the rules of the game, making the game a little out of control. And what kind of ending will this out-of-control game end, the final direction of the love between the hero and heroine in the film and their final fate, the film did not give a clear answer and ended abruptly, leaving only the audience in the theater. A long sigh. But we know that the arrow that Katniss shoots into the sky will be the same as the door that Truman in "The Truman World" opened at the end of the film, breaking through the cage of reality and virtuality, bringing freedom and hope.
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