tour de force

Rating: 10/10 (3 April 2012)

I loved this movie. Haven't read the book i did not know what to expect. At the end it was my greatest movie experience of the year so far.
Above all what i really like about the movie it's that the director manage to not put us as a spectator (voyeur) of the actual Hunger Games but as a witness of a dislocated future were children will kill each other for the pleasure of the population thus the government keep them in control keeping them entertained and letting a glimpse of hope for the ones with a life more difficult. A kind of tour de force, in "battle royal" for example my feeling as a viewer was very different.
However this future is anything but original. It is a kind of a modern Roman Empire.
I guess the fact that we do not really see any of the killing it is a great director's preconception. First we do not want do see slaughtered children, second the paradox with an ultimate reality show and the decency in death it is very interesting.
The pace is well handled, the suspense does not exist since we know from the beginning the ending but it does not matter since it is not the purpose to keep us wondering who is going to win since we are not the spectator of the TV show.
Some people complain about the dull love story, but there is no love story, may be a friendship, but no love. It is fake it is TV. At the end the mentor must put words inside Katniss's head to express feelings what she does not have. It is very deep and may be it needs lot of discussion to list everything that people can do in a reality show to become popular.
That is my understanding of this movie, i love everything about it form the acting, the directing, the customs, the music and even the strange beard of Seneca !!!
10/10