Last man no choice, the first man choose

Rating: 8/10 (31 March 2012)

Jennifer Lawrence(Katniss) attracted all my attention. She is brave, focused and logical. The action to be a volunteer to replace her sister proves her audacity without a word. I was surprised when she became outraged when Peeta revealed on -air his long-time unrequited love for her(i didn't find that sweet but immature instead). She doesn't want to be perceived as weak. She has only one goal in the mind-to win the game and come back home. She knows what she wants and try by all means to get it since day one (when she almost forked mentor's hands). She is real, not pretentious and is in stark contrast with other tributes who tried to win others favors by flattering and fake confidence. She honesty to admit not knowing how to make friends already wins her alliances and supporters. She is morally upright and honest. People love her because who she is, not who she pretends to be. In fact, her mentor Haymitch Abernathy tries really hard to mobilize resources and convince the "upper class" weirdos/game planner/autocrats in the Capitol to not let Katniss die. He sends her life-saving medicine and guidance to win/after winning. Cinne, Katniss's stylist helps her to win people's attention and supports her throughout.
Coming out of the game alive needs extreme mental alertness(sleeping on the tree at night). Not killing other people does not mean people don't want to kill you. The only time Katniss kills is to defend herself when she is being attacked. She reacts really fast and has very good self- defense techniques except when she was almost killed by the tribute from district 2. Katniss does not disclose emotions yet take people's true love seriously. That is not to say she is emotional and contain those feelings without expressing them. She is just very logical/focused/goal- oriented and not love-awakened because I cant see her true feelings during the entire movie, not Gale, not Peeta. (a little perplexed when she kissed Peeta-aha). Interestingly, cold and logical people are usually depicted as serious goal-getters. Although Katniss fits into that category,yet kissing, sporadic sudden softness in her eyes and trembling insecurely before the games starts gives a whole different dimension to her character.
The game is not fair and the tributes audiences are constantly being manipulated. Adding high-tech beasts (i was terrified when that three dogs first appeared, luckily i have someone by my side), parachutes robots and forest fire from the fancy monitoring headquarters is a fantastic juxtaposition of the real working world,isn't' it? The adding of game provisiosn to create the image of two star-crossed young lovers is actually the best possible outcome of Haymitch 's effort in helping the two protagonists, which is contrasted with the ignorance from the authorities.
To be extremely focused/ambitious/brave/competitive, she deserves all the respect and final win. Actually i think she would make a very capable female investment banker too. This is a very good career prep movie for banker-to-bes. ..lol..jk....