Welcome to the 76th Hunger Games [Thinking and Fearing Series]

Rosalee 2022-04-22 07:01:04

Only based on the movie, I have seen the original book, but I can't remember the details, I only comment on the movie.
【】The inside is my own thinking and I am afraid of brain holes. It is only an inference. Maybe the novel has supplementary details, but since it only evaluates movies, you understand.

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In all fairness, the Hunger Games movies are still pretty good. However, this part of Mockingjay lacks the Hunger Games in the arena on the bright side, and it will inevitably lose a lot of highlights - especially if it is divided into action and adventure - it is inevitable to put the cart before the horse. After all, the best The part I watched was the multi-party competition after the movie.

Every "Hunger Games" will hold a Hunger Games. In Mockingjay, Finnick once said in the country: "Welcome to the 76th Hunger Games." - However, this time the contestants really Is it the Katniss team?

Looking back at the first two games, what are the characteristics of The Hunger Games:
1. Pack the contestants to get more sponsorship support and increase the chances of the contestants surviving.
2. According to the rules, only one winner is allowed, that is, only one person can survive.
3. Game designers should, in principle, not allow the game to have more than one winner.
4. The only criterion for the winner is to survive to the end, no matter what method is used - use the field to bounce back the opponent's attack (Hammies), kill other players on the field, be the only survivor (Annie), hide, etc. Die (Morphine Addicted Woman).
5. The game allows alliance or betrayal, as long as you can survive in the end.

In Mockingjay, there are two of the most obvious hints of a new Hunger Games, one of Finnick's lines above, and one of the ending Peeta (perhaps Haymitch wasn't impressed) watching "Who says the Hunger Games doesn't have a winner," Pella swears in on TV. The latter has unmistakably hinted that this time the Hunger Games is happening among these politicians.
As the leaders of both sides of the war, Kein and Snow competed throughout, and it is unnecessary to go into details. But obviously the winners of this game are not them, but the commanders of the 8th district Pera and Plutash.

The image of Plutarch, the game mastermind, in the play is very subtle.
He was the game designer for the second installment, and he was undoubtedly the one who designed the venue and provided the wires for the tribute. No doubt he was the mastermind behind the plan. In the third film, he gradually became Kyn's henchman. But it looks suspicious in the fourth film.

The time-delay bomb dropped by the plane in the capital is undoubtedly the one discussed in Section 13 at the beginning of the film. This is an obvious implication that the control of the plane is actually the rebel army - the air force in the capital has been controlled by the rebel army.
So what's the point of dropping such a bomb? Why not just bomb the presidential palace? Let's look at the main goal of the time-delay bomb - to lure more people to the rescue, and then inflict a larger strike. Therefore, it can be understood that the second explosion is the main purpose of the aircraft operator - to kill the rescuer. At this time, who are the people who have the ability to rescue in the country? The people in the square do not have medical knowledge, and the medical personnel in the Presidential Palace are temporarily unable to come out to rescue. At this moment, the most capable person in the vicinity of the square to provide effective rescue is the medical unit of the rebel army, the unit where Prissa is located.
If Katniss' rash action was to kill many of his teammates, then this bombing was a premeditated killing of friendly troops. Considering that since the rebels had already controlled the air force, they could directly bomb the Presidential Palace without massacring the people in the square. The significance of this operation was completely focused on propaganda, misleading the ordinary people's national capital to kill the rebels. Medical part while killing children!
However, for those who knew the military strength of the rebels and knew about the existence of the delay bombs, the situation was different: it was the slaughter of friendly forces. The spearhead was naturally directed at Kein.

[Thinking about the fearful brain hole 1: Before the minesweeping operation in the capital, Pera conducted war mobilization and gave the medical team a long shot. In order to assist friendly forces in time, she sent a large number of medical troops to the front line - but most of the traps were triggered Immediate death, the role of medical troops on the front line is doubtful. 】
[Thinking about it and thinking about it 2: Snow asked the Air Force to ensure airspace security when he turned on the minesweeping mode, indicating that the air force base in the capital is inside the minesweeping area. Then, since the rebels have reached the gate of the Presidential Palace—whether the air force territory has also been Occupied by rebels? So which troops under direct command occupied it? (Looks up to open his brain hole 1)]

One detail that runs through the whole Mockingjay (top) I don't know if you have noticed - the actions of game designer Plutash before and after Kine's three public speeches.
For the first time, Kine announced an agreement with Katniss, and Plutarch offered her the artistry of his speech, believing that she would be difficult to incite the crowd, Kine rejected him. The second time, before the Mockingjay promo aired, Kern's speech was noticeably better. At the end of the film, when Kyn gave his last speech, the camera gave a close-up of Plutash, who was reading the speech silently.
What does this show - in order to win people's hearts (perhaps Katniss's increased influence is also in danger), Kine is constantly improving his speeches, and this improvement is carried out on the advice of Plutarch, and it is enough to show them relationship gradually became closer.
Mockingjay (top) The bright line is the packaging for Katniss, and the dark line corresponds to Kyn's packaging for herself and the change in her relationship with Plutash.
And when it came to Mockingjay (below), Katniss went to the battlefield alone, and Kine whispered to Plutash: "No matter what she does, let people think it was designed, and we told her to do it." ——It means that the planning and decision-making power of this kind of propaganda-related work has all been taken over by Plutarch, and Kyn is only instructing a result.
——Then, seeing this, there are two more questions: 1. Did Plutash participate in the propaganda strategy of delaying the bombing? (I don't know this anyway) 2. Was the symbolic Hunger Games at the end of the film where Kyn asked the winner to vote, was it really her idea, as she said?
What does such a symbolic game mean? means to test. If the game is held and the people cheer, then the honor will naturally belong to the new government, and if there is scolding, then it will naturally be the victors who will be spurned; if the game does not take place and the people are angry, it will be the victors who bear the blame. ——With almost no losses, and the opportunity to discredit the victors led by Katniss, such a publicity-worthy plan, it is hard to imagine that Plutash was not involved. On the other hand, in Mockingjay, in the face of Katniss's request, Kein's answer was: "Individual requests are not accepted, and the court will give a reasonable ruling, thank you." It is hard to imagine such advocacy of laws and rules She will make a decision that is incompatible with legal principles, such as letting the children participate in games.
So Khin lied to the victors, why? According to the black officer in the 13th District of Mockingjay Lower Middle (this role is relatively positive, let’s take it as a fact) and said that Kyn was afraid of Katniss’s words-Kin was extremely afraid of losing his authority, how could he admit that this decision was not made by himself? She must have kept Plutash behind the scenes, out of sight.
But what does this mean for Katniss, who has lost her sister and knew about the existence of time-lapse bombs and experienced the Hunger Games twice? After the conversation with Snow, what would she think of the fact that there was a bomb in District 13 on the congressional plane? We have seen the end of the movie. This vote was undoubtedly a fuse, which made Kyn's image in Katniss's mind quickly drop to the level of Snow's.

[Thinking about it and thinking about it 3: Who allowed Katniss to enter the greenhouse to meet Snow? pera. She said: "I believe she has enough authority (or I can't remember what other word) to enter this room. ]

[Thinking about it, I'm afraid of brain hole 4: I thought that Plutash and Pera should be related. In fact, Plutarch's status before and after the war was not far away. Defection to District 13 must have been an ideal, according to his letter to Katniss. Not long after Snow and Kyn died, he asked Haymitch to send a letter to Katniss, which mentioned that the next president should be Pera, and she promised to pardon Katniss in the future. Therefore, he should have had contact with Pera immediately after the two died or had contact in advance. ]

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The black-bellied Scorpio said that this film was still very cool to watch, and all kinds of thinking were extremely frightening.
However, there are still many vague and small issues that have not been clearly figured out. Although purely logically speaking, it does not have much impact on the above inferences, but they are still listed here.
1. Haymitch, do you know about the plan to get rid of Kerin?
2. Whether Snow really didn't lie to Katniss.

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Extended Reading

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.