Well the Hunger Games is finally upon us. Yes I read the book. I REALLY loved it. It is a biting commentary on where we may be headed as a nation and as a world if we continue on our blind path of greed.
As a woman I found it refreshing that, for once, the reluctant and unexpected hero was a girl. Not a magical girl, or some bio created super machine, or a girl from another planet who has super powers. No just a girl. A girl who stopped being a kid at an early age and was a fighter and survivor on levels beyond what I could imagine. She was a reluctant heroine who found her true self and even love during the worst possible time, the Hunger Games. It is a delicate story, woven carefully and fantastically by Suzanne Collins. She captures everything that goes on in EVERY 17 year old girls mind and puts it into a literal life and death situation which only magnifies the significance of that time in all our lives. This is a powerful look at Humanity and how survival can test even the best of us. But how, the few of us will rise to a height not even imagined when in that situation.
Katniss Everdeen, as written in the book, is someone to look up to. Someone to emulate.
The movie, however, is something else entirely.
Obviously Hollywood, particularly the TWO men who wrote this script with Suzanne Collins, clearly couldn’t have a STRONG, SMART, EXTRAORDINARY woman on the screen. I am severly disappointed in Suzanne for allowing this truly watered down, cliff notes version of her revolutionary story to come to the screen. Yes I am calling you out Suzanne. Shame on you for selling out on a true heroine. The problem wasn’t Jennifer Lawrence. She did the best she could with what she had. She was good. She always is. But you took Katniss and made her the ever typical damsel in distress. She is tied to a tree sleeping more than anything else in this movie. WHAT?? What happened to the girl battling and scheming? What happened to the warrior that was fighting, not only for her sister and family, but in the end for love?
FOR SHAME. Read the book. Wait for this on HBO if you must.
Thanks for this review which digs deeper
I really liked it! Every suemmr, I pick a series that everyone is tripping over themselves to read, just to see what the big deal is (2010 was Twilight; I still haven’t repressed that experience), and I’ve chugged through this series so fast that I’ll be done by suemmr. This book was very gripping. I couldn’t put it down! Also a fast read, so I had a feeling of accomplishment.
Well, that comment was posted before I was done. I appreciate this review for clearly expressing what’s missing from the movie: the full and complete picture of a multi-faceted SheRoe.
Good job BFF, great points, nicely written! xo!