There is nothing new under the sun

Aisha 2022-04-19 09:01:26

I saw the movie and was very disappointed with the ending part. The book is indeed such a time-span turning point, but in the film only one shot turns to the idyll, ignoring the gradual healing process of the protagonist's inner pain, and presents the novel with Katniss's broken self-talk to his infant child at the end of the novel. The "partial monologue" is undoubtedly extremely inappropriate. On the screen, it instills uplifting words to the audience like a sermon, which seems extremely empty, nothing compared to the sighing in the heart when reading the last stanza of the novel.

Admittedly this dystopian novel has its immaturity. Katniss is a growing, fashioned, drifting hero. She fails to understand her society, institutions, and revolutions, so the entire series is confined to her simple desire to protect her significant other and her emotional entanglement with Gale and Peeta. However, as I said after watching Mikami, The Hunger Games is a hopeless movie, and nothing will change whether the revolution is successful or not. But this direction is the most important reason I appreciate it. The adaptation of the execution part, which is of great significance in the story, is undoubtedly quite impactful. Snow's madly desperate and tacit smile, Coin's complacent and frozen smile, and Plutarch's smile that seemed to have anticipated everything, the three shots were switched, just like the ambitions inherited from generation to generation. In fact, Plutarch was a very smart man who served two presidents and became an important figure in the regime after the war. His predictions about the future are cruel and true:

"Man is a fickle, stupid, and forgetful animal, and he is brilliant in his self-destruction."

Yes, some sins must be destroyed, but after they are destroyed, they are replaced by what is it? The falling silver parachute is the culprit of evil. There is nothing new under the sun.

Also, listening to the two girls next to the movie theater whispering and guessing about the plot, I once again deeply realized what it means to criticize the work without understanding the relationship between the characters. It is a hooligan.

(Before, I was looking forward to the goddess Natalie Dormer, but her performance was not very eye-catching. Well, there is nothing special about the supporting role.)

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Extended Reading
  • Kendall 2021-10-20 19:02:25

    It's not hungry at all and it's finally over. . .

  • Madisen 2022-03-24 09:01:22

    When the bomb fell, my sister disappeared from sight, and the beginning of all this went back to the beginning. Compared with the overall situation, Mockingbird's own thoughts and decisions are admirable, understandable, supportive and passionate. Looking at the foreseeability of resistance at the other end of the end knowing, it can explain the kind of sorrowful humanity and power, and our insignificance can only slowly hear the voice of our heart.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 quotes

  • Lieutenant Jackson: Everdeen, give me the Holo.

    [Katniss doesn't move or respond]

    Lieutenant Jackson: Everdeen, what did I just say? The Holo. Come on, let's go.

    Katniss Everdeen: Boggs gave it to me.

    Lieutenant Jackson: What are you talking about?

    Homes: He did. He transferred security clearance to her. I saw him.

    Lieutenant Jackson: And why would he do that?

    Katniss Everdeen: I'm on special orders from Coin.

    Lieutenant Jackson: To do what?

    Katniss Everdeen: To assassinate President Snow.

    Lieutenant Jackson: I don't believe that for one second. As your new unit commander, I order you to transfer security clearance to me now.

    Katniss Everdeen: I can't do that.

    [as Jackson draws her weapon, the others draw theirs on her]

    Gale Hawthorne: Let's not lose our heads here.

    Lieutenant Jackson: I'm not asking you again, Everdeen. Give me that Holo.

    Cressida: She's telling the truth. Plutarch wants it televised. He thinks if we could film the Mockingjay assassinating Snow, it'll make the Capitol surrender before the casualties get too high.

    Gale Hawthorne: While we're arguing, there's a hundred Peacekeepers on their way here.

    Katniss Everdeen: Boggs promised me that when the time came, you would help me.

    Lieutenant Jackson: [holstering her gun] All right, soldier, Holo's yours.

  • Egeria: Sir, should I call for your doctor?

    President Snow: [jerking awake] What'd you say?

    Egeria: Shall I call for your doctor?

    President Snow: I hope you've wakened me for something more urgent than an old man's health.

    Egeria: They survived. I don't know how. We picked them up on a surveillance cam.

    President Snow: Let me see. I... I need to see for myself.

    [recognizing Katniss]

    President Snow: It's her. It is her. The arena has moved underground.