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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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 quotes

  • Finnick Odair: [Sardonically] Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the seventy-sixth Hunger Games.

  • Johanna Mason: [On Peeta Mellark] We... we had adjoining cells in the Capitol. We're very familiar with each other's screams.