I vaguely remember the outline of the story, but I don’t remember what the last episode was about and where I got it from the beginning. I read it out of the mentality of making a movie when I have time today, but I unexpectedly liked the last Hunger Games.
Maybe I've watched few films, but I can't think of a mainstream American sci-fi special effects blockbuster, with the theme of fighting for human rights and liberating the people, and the final intention is so pessimistic and nihilistic.
A series with no suspense at first, a textbook-style boring strategic layout - the novel adaptation guarantees that at least fans of the original work will pay for it, the near-future alternate setting guarantees visual seductiveness, and the starring of the newly popular actress guarantees to hold the general public and fight for human rights The dictatorship theme guarantees political correctness, and the battle royale game guarantees the specific plot interesting - it seems to be quite satisfactory, no profit or loss. Aggressive, heroic, messianic, justice wins, smashed. In this sense, The Hunger Games is unprecedented.
So I don't use logic to criticize those naive war descriptions, and I dislike those routine plots that have no surprises. I closed my eyes and guessed who my cousin shot with the last arrow after three minutes of brewing, but it doesn't matter, this should be an explosive movie. In the rice cracker film, countless bloodshed and sacrifices have brought justice, and the protagonist who has experienced hardships has been sublimated into another merciful and powerful savior. Everyone ushered in a new era in the rising sun, and the whole film is over.
So that post-revolutionary roundtable really shook me back.
The choice my cousin made at that time, the hatred from pure black revenge at that moment, made me shut up in amazement.
After the cousin shot the new head of state with one arrow, the reaction of the revolutionary masses was that there was no response, and they rushed forward to tear up the old emperor who didn't start to tear up the cousin - gave you so long to pretend, if you don't tear, we tear - —No one even had the slightest effort to react a little to the fact that their revolutionary leader had just been shot dead by the revolutionary mascot, to catch a cousin, or to collect the leader's body. I literally take my hat off for this part.
(It should be emphasized here that the cousin at the meeting was indeed different from the cousin who later shot the leader with an arrow.)
Then my cousin returned to her hometown and got married, gave birth to a second child and lived a happy second half of her life. I believe that this superfluous last paragraph is filled with warm golden light, looking back on life and looking forward to the future. The chicken soup I survived by Katniss Everdeen was all to appease the broken glass when my cousin stood in the kitchen and yelled at the star-gazing man to get out. The audience (me) in one place, forced HE.
The four "Hunger Games" can be summed up in one sentence, my cousin survived for her sister, played the game, revolutionized, the world was turned upside down, and her sister still died. Died just as the old emperor Snow said in the garden (this person also cut roses, is it the old emperor of Yinying?), no purpose, wasteful. It's entirely the screenwriter's malice, but it's reasonable, since the whole country is in revolution, since Primrose can't sit at home and watch her heroic sister fight, since she can't help but go to the front line, she will inevitably die, not in To die here is to die there. This is the way it is. Every death in a war is one of the big numbers in the total number of casualties. It is meaningless.
My cousin was never a hero.
Changing the world, resisting tyranny and leading the revolution has nothing to do with Katniss Everdeen, she never thought about it and never was she really manipulating public opinion, she never took the initiative to do what she wanted to do, except in the end. hatred of the old emperor. Katniss has always been a vase, prop, mascot, symbol, and mustard that was pushed away by others and the situation. An innocent and pitiful little girl who passed the game by accident, was popularized by marketing promoters, and then became a revolutionary mascot. After all this, her subjective will has not grown a little bit, and all the people who have used her The purpose of the person has nothing to do with her, and everything that happened did not trigger her any thoughts and wishes. Her purpose was still to protect her sister and herself, and later added Peeta. Before Peeta was abused and went mad, she still thought that as long as she obediently followed what others said and did her best without making mistakes, she would be fine and pass the test. After Peeta went crazy, she slapped her head and decided that everything was the fault of the old emperor Snow, and hoped to convince everyone to agree with her and unite to fight Snow with her. The response of the people of the Second District to this was a shot. After almost taking a bite, she gave up hope of uniting the masses, and planned to go it alone, and without any accident, contributed the last good show for Snow and the leader aunt. At the end, the arrow of revenge for Primrose did not achieve any purpose. Primrose would not be resurrected, and the crowd ruthlessly trampled on her good intentions for letting Snow go. Gale, who agrees that the essence of war is killing each other and does not think it is necessary to hit civilians, should bear a debt of conscience, left her. Only Peeta, who is also passive and innocent (to put it horribly, is incompetent), can understand her and is the most suitable she.
Who are the Mockingjay mocking? Laughing at the character Katniss? Laughing at the stereotypes of mainstream blockbusters? Laughing at heroism? Laughing at the "everything makes sense" thinking? ...?
Starting from the clichéd first part, it finally describes such a nihilistic and tragic protagonist, so blatantly expressing the manipulation of public opinion and propaganda warfare, and unabashedly characterizing the public as a fanatical, impulsive, savage, and anti-intellectual group , Maybe the Chinese are not surprised, but as a mainstream American blockbuster, the content of the performance should be shocking. If it weren't for being a feminist dog, I would have a strong urge to roll my eyes for another heroine who is strong outside the middle and loser in the middle (Can women still have ideals and aspirations voluntarily? Can you stop using a weapon and pretending to be able to fight Saying that she is a strong female character, when will we see a positive heroine who has no force but also has intelligence, the most important thing is [willing], not hesitating about everything, and being led to run? Oh, or say Women with ideals, aspirations, IQ, planning ability and leadership charm, such as the leader’s aunt, are all heretics who should be shot to death?), and the OST did not include the drum of the old emperor on the execution ground, I can still give this One extra point.
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