The hunger games

Rating: Null/10 (21 January 2014)

A movie to think
Directed by Gary Ross in 2012, " The Hunger Games" is an adventure movie starred by two main actors Jennifer Lawrence (Katniss Everdeen) and Wes Bentley (Seneca Crane). The movie tells the story of a population that was divided into 12 districts that must follow the rules of a higher class, which apparently can bring them peace and order, and for that reason the districts are obliged to offer an annual "tribute" to them. These tributes are two people of each district that in a monitored place must fight against the others until the death, and just one of all the tributes can be alive and win this game.
During these 142 minutes of tension, the movie brings us an idea that this game its really similar to a reality show, like Big Brother, where the players must entertain the public and it doesn't matter what will be necessary to catch them involved in their survival into this isolated place. So the behavior of each player is being watched and consequently, the participants can pretend their feelings and actions to make the public agree with them and give some incentives. On BB the participants according to their behavior during the game, can be voted to stay or live the house,while in The Hungers Games, it's possible for the players to receive some external help, like a food, a medicine, something that is being necessary to keep the person alive. On this point, it is good to observe the main actors performance. Katniss is an excellent shooter that went to the games in place of her younger sister. During her stay she gets closer to Seneca, the boy that is from the same district of her. And they insinuate a kind of affection for each other that is a great point for discussion. Because during the movie I couldn't know if her feelings for him was just pretended to get the public involved in a love story and help them or she was really falling for him. So she had a good performance all long the movie.
A weak point in my opinion is that even the visual effects are really nice, and the setting in the forest is always changing to beautiful places full of trees, animals and waterfalls. All scenes are full of deaths and blood, which made me figure out that they were just exaggerating to get the attention of public with a weak story. But looking in another perspective, I really got interested in the drama, because while I was watching the movie I had some kind of feelings, like hate for the this injustice game and hope for have a fair ending. And I think when people can feel something about the movie, and just after watch they continue think about the story, it shows that this is a strong point about of the movie.