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    The Hunger Games

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    My son who is 14 has read the books and thought the movie adaptation was good but not all it could've been. Another young reader echoed the same thoughts to me. Mind you, I haven't read the books and so had little in the way of expectations. It's a long movie but the pace is pretty good; I've sat through shorter movies that never seemed to end. The acting all around was very good--cudos to the young people in the film in particular. The violence was well handled--this isn't Battle Royale folks, which is a glorious cartoon; in this movie the violence is disturbing but never too much. The point is made. The hand held camera technique at times gave me trouble, hard to make out what was what. A lot has been made in the US about the movie; is it a parable of the 1% exploiting the 99%? Or, as the right wing has it, a story about 'socialism' and big government overregulation of people's lives. To me the main point is that our media culture is by nature exploitive; everything on TV of late is a competition where people get cut and are degraded for our amusement and a victor, often of average 'talent', celebrated, an artifact of the media. Anyway, I though the use of Roman names made it clear, lovers as the Romans were of blood sports. Unlikes ourselves though, at least the Romans were honest about the purpose of their entertainments.

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    kennzer@  1.4.2012 age: 36-49 45 reviews

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