After reading the lower part of Mockingjay, I found out that all the important plots are here. I really don't understand why the Mockingjay is divided into two parts, the upper part is completely fragmented and cannot fully support a whole movie. Now that I read the lower part, I realize that this story is actually worth looking forward to. Kerris never took the usual path. Everything she does is based on her own principles and feelings. Throughout Mockingjay she has only two purposes: to kill the president of Capitol and to save Peeta. If the president is for world peace, saving Peeta is the attribution of his own feelings. These two story lines personally feel that the director did not handle them very well. It involves the definition of whether the entire movie is a war movie, an action movie or an emotional movie. It is very dangerous to choose the middle route, because there is no focus and it is too easy to be different. This is where the film fails. Kerris joins the forward squad, planning to kill the president. The team has gone through untold hardships, and even several important members have sacrificed for Kerris. This part of the action scene is well shot, but what about the result? At the end of the film, it was explained that Kerris did not need to kill the president at all. The general army had already occupied the presidential palace, and the old regime had been overthrown. Isn't Kerris' teammates all dead in vain? Speaking of which, the composition of the squad has no meaning at all for the victory of this war. The only meaning is the emotional changes between Kerris and Peeta during this experience.
Personally, I think the focus of this movie should be on the relationship between Kerris and Peeta. Peeta received mental persecution from the president before, and his will was manipulated. In the series of activities of the squad, Peeta slowly recalled the experiences and feelings he had with Kerris. During the period, some of their previous dialogue clips should be touching points for the audience. But because the director felt that these action scenes must be exciting, and kept accelerating the pace, these emotional bursts were weakened.
The original beautiful lost and gained relationship was ruined by the nondescript production. What a waste of first-class Hollywood actors.
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