Hunger Games: Catching Fire Movie Review
Director: Francis Lawrence
Starring: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth
Based on the novel by Suzanne Collins
The movie started off with Katniss and Peeta, “The Victors”, preparing for their victory tours around the twelve districts and then onto the Capitol. The onset brought confusion on what the storyline of the movie would be, there seemed to be no real focus for the on-camera love birds and my assurance that the movie was going somewhere was lost. However with the breaking news of the victors having to take place in the 75th annual Hunger Games, the movie took an extreme plot twist.
After the long and confusing introduction and excitement for a wedding that would never take place, I was left excited to witness the Hunger Games. It’s whereabouts and outcomes intrigued me and I was left even more excited to see how the next movie would play out. Though I was left hanging off the edge of my seat wondering what would happen next, and was unsatisfyingly not told, the director did a great job making sure not one audience member would be missing the upcoming movie in 2014.
The events that occur during the movie are not so much predictable, as they are surprising but understanding. President Snow didn’t believe the love of Katniss and Peeta because of Katniss’s obvious affection towards Gale. Having to prove their onstage love to Snow was shown widely, with the idea of a wedding taking place and the over exaggeration of a baby on the way announced in spite of the Victor Hunger Games. After watching the movie, one would wonder if Katniss was actually falling in love with Peeta, as much as he had already fallen for her. The next movie would hopefully elaborate on my confusion, but it dragged me in, as a movie should, left me wanting more.
Another unpredictable event was reliving the previous Hunger Games but adding all the Victors to the dog pile, making the competition real. The movie wouldn’t quite be the same if the main characters were no longer key persons in the movie, so forcing them to relive the extremities of the hunger games was almost inevitable. Them winning the hunger games also came to an obvious to me, what would this movie be if the main characters were killed? However the confusion of what happened at the very end of the movie left me with many questions, did Peeta die? Was their a winner? What was happening back in the capitol? The unpredictable concept of the outcome left me very interested in what will happen next, but of course I would have been thrilled to know before I have to wait a full year.
During their unwanted tour through the districts, many citizens are murdered by the security the Capitol has lined up hoping to avoid rebellion. Putting up the symbolic three fingers and whistling the famous tune was the main cause of all these deaths. Confusion overcame me, why was it so bad for them to do that? Was Katniss really a victim for the leadership of this rebellion? My questions were unanswered for the most part, as expected, however annoyed I was that I was given no answer, I’m happy to wait for the next movie, as I should because thats what happens when theres more than one movie to a story. The rebellion utterly confuses me, even sitting in the front row it was a hard concept to grasp, and i wasn’t quite sure of why this rebellion was so scary, until District 13 was brought up. The author of these books did an incredible job using imagination to make the book so much more interesting than expected, and the director portrayed it, making the movie shock me when i least expected it.
I enjoyed the movie, disregarding all my confusion that I have faith will be answered within the next display. Through the fright, joy, and sacredness, I felt that I was placed inside the capitol, along with all the utopian citizens, watching those tours and the Hunger Games, with a VIP pass to how they were really feeling. I felt a part of the movie, I wanted to ask the actors questions and really learn more. I was dragged in, the director successfully grabbed my attention and held onto it for the two and a half hours i was sitting in that overpacked movie theatre straining my neck so I could assure myself i wouldn’t miss anything important.
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