Valerie Preminger<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Warning: May the spoilers be ever in your favour!<\/p>\n
Ever since Suzanne Collins\u2019s best-selling book, The Hunger Games<\/em>, was published in 2008, fans have been waiting impatiently for the (almost) real thing.<\/p>\n We had fallen in love, not with the Twelve Districts-assigned \u201cjob\u201d (transportation, luxury, coal, etc.) nor the Hunger Games itself, which consists of 24 teenagers put in an arena to fight to the death with one victor. We fell in love with the characters and their emotions regarding all these things, and we couldn’t wait for it to appear on the big Finally, our dream came true, with Collins herself having The film stayed very true to the book, right down to the One of the best scenes by far was of The Reaping, the one The Girl on Fire (Katniss’s unofficial Finally, when the Games actually start, we get to see the Rue, played by Amandla Stenberg, is the little twelve-year-old And then the romance really begins, with the sudden All in all, The Hunger Games<\/em> really delivered and verified what the book was all about. For anyone who hasn’t seen it yet, sorry, but you are missing out. This <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Valerie Preminger Warning: May the spoilers be ever in your favour! Ever since Suzanne Collins\u2019s best-selling book, The Hunger Games, was published in 2008, fans have been waiting impatiently for the (almost) real thing. We had fallen in love, … Continue reading
\nscreen.<\/p>\n
\nadapted the book for film. And with Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and
\nLiam Hemsworth as the stars, what could go wrong?<\/p>\n
\npoverty in the Seam (the extremely poor part of District 12, responsible for
\ncoal) and the infinite luxuries in the Capitol (the controlling and corrupt
\ngovernment). Of course, we all missed our beloved Madge Undersee, the daughter
\nof District 12’s mayor. In the book, Madge gives Katniss the infamous
\nMockingjay pin, while in the movie, Madge wasn’t even cast! While it was still
\nupsetting, the act of Prim, Katniss\u2019s little sister, giving her the pin for
\ngood luck proved to be just as good\u2014if not better.<\/p>\n
\nday each year where one boy and one girl from each District get chosen to be
\nTributes and participate in the Hunger Games. Really, the whole thing was just
\noverflowing with emotion from when Katniss desperately volunteers to save her
\nsister from being in the Games, to when Gale is carrying a screaming Prim away,
\nto when Peeta Mellark, the baker\u2019s son who saved her life when she was
\nstarving, joins her up on the stage.<\/p>\n
\n“nickname”) really delivered during the parade, when all the Districts
\npresent themselves to the Capitol, dressed up in immaculate costumes. Cinna,
\nplayed by Lenny Kravitz, made his pair, literally, on fire. During the parade,
\nKatniss and Peeta held hands, adding to their budding chemistry. Katniss
\ndoesn’t like the idea much, but she feels that she owes Peeta.<\/p>\n
\nArena! Immaculately designed, the Arena is a large forest, with few open spaces
\nand hidden cameras everywhere. And just in case you were thinking of running
\naway, no dice, because the Capitol has a “shield” over the arena that
\nshocks you when you touch it.\u00a0The Cornucopia, a large rectangular horn
\nbuilt to hold various weapons and supplies Tributes can snatch up at the start
\nof the Games, wasn’t at all what I expected.<\/p>\n
\nfrom District 11 who reminds Katniss of her little sister. Katniss and Rue immediately
\nbecome allies a few days into the Games. After managing to blow up some
\nsupplies the stronger tributes had taken, Rue got entangled in a trap, and
\nwhile she managed to get free with Katniss’s help, a nasty Tribute from
\nDistrict 1 killed her. Katniss killed him in revenge and cradled Rue in her
\narms, singing to her all the while. She covered her body in flowers, to show
\nthe Capitol that she will not play by their rules and be heartless.<\/p>\n
\nrule-change, saying that two Tributes from the same District can win and
\nKatniss goes running for Peeta. He is the only other person that she knows and
\nhe saved her life. She plays up their “star-crossed lovers” gimmick,
\nknowing all the while that Peeta really is in love with her. But does she
\nreally love him back or is it all just to get out alive?<\/p>\n
\n“critic” may be a little biased, but I definitely give it a 5\/5.<\/p>\n