A Review of The Hunger Games (Spoiler Alert)

The Hunger Games
A Movie Review
By Mira

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Let’s start with a simple question. What would you do if your little sister had been selected to ‘play’ in a ‘game’ where only one person came out alive? Not many people would answer ‘volunteer to go for her.’ Well, that’s drop the question, and get right to the story. Once apon a time, a place called Panem was ruled over by the unfair and tyrannical Capitol. For Seventy-Four years, the Hunger Games had loomed over Panem, each year taking two Tributes, aged twelve to eighteen, from each of the twelve Districts, and dropping them in an Arena, and telling them to kill each other, and letting the last one standing go home. When twelve-year-old Primrose Everdeen is reaped to go to the Games, her older sister, Katniss Everdeen, volunteers to go instead of her. Along with Katniss, Peeta Mellark, the baker’s son, who had saved Katniss and her family’s lives, years ago, was selected to go.

A week later, Katniss had made a fiery entrance to the Capitol, earning the name ‘The Girl on Fire.’  Her partner had admitted he was in love with her on live TV, and made her not only the Girl on Fire, but one of the star-crossed lovers of the Arena. Speaking of the Arena.... Katniss is thrown headfirst into the Arena, nearly dying of dehydration, and of a firestorm in her first week. Then she meets Rue, the twelve-year-old Tribute from District Eleven. As quickly as they become alliances, Rue is killed while Katniss blows the Career’s food stocks up. After that, it is announced that two Tributes from the same District can win. Katniss tracks down Peeta, and nurses him back to health, then together, they win the Games, and return home.

And that is the Hunger Games. I, myself, enjoyed the movie, although I prefer the book. The movie didn’t really capture the essence of the characters, and didn’t include some plot points that became rather crucial in the second two books. The movie also didn’t really capture what I thought the author was trying to portray in the Capitol, and in the Districts. But, compared to most movies, the movie was rather close to the book, so kudos to the creators for that. All in all, The Hunger Games was a good, movie, but could have been better.