We Live in Panem

Rating: 8/10 (30 November 2016)

I am disappointed by many of the comments here. Like the books, the movie is an allegory. If you did not study literature in high school or college, I can understand how people can try to review the movie based on plot or camera angles or any number of other elements that may make those folks seem smart-at least-to themselves about movie-making.
We live in a nation where children literally are ranked and measured by various estimations of worthiness based on test scores and social interactions. Sure, we don't outright kill them but again, the books and the movies are ALLEGORY. Instead, our society tends to punish the kids who don't belong, the kids who are brown or black, the kids who for no fault of their own, are not the chosen of the Capitol. Then again, if you are Black and you grow up in urban Detroit or Baltimore and the schools and the city and your neighbors and the nation doesn't listen to your needs, you might as well be dead.