It was the best film ever!

Rating: 8/10 (3 December 2013)

In my opinion, I think that the film, The Hunger Games (HG), resembled an incorporation of both 1984 and Battle Royale (BR) because in BR and HG, there are children that are in a game and they slaughter themselves whereas, in 1984 and HG, it is a dystopia, communist world where the government (Capitol) is corrupt with the affluent people have more freedom than the deprived areas. Also, the conditions that are portrayed in the film are similar to the USSR during the last two centuries of the Cold War. The themes in the film are well portrayed and show what a poor country is probably like. Also, the acting was high quality and did not diminish the tense atmosphere. The plot included many twist and plots including the end where both Peeta and Katniss escape morality and this causes civil unrest much like the unrest when the USSR municipalities wanted independence at the end of the Cold War. In conclusion, I think the film has great historical and political references however, I felt that I was missing at as I didn't read the book and the fact that some of the detail was omitted in the film.