Poignant yet beautiful

Rating: 9/10 (29 November 2013)

In Catching Fire, we get a glimpse of the Hunger Games winners' lives. Although wealth and fame have followed winning the event, the winners are still ultimately under the submission of the President. This is reminded to them, when for the 75th annual Hunger Games, the rules are changed and the tributes are pulled from the pool of past winners. This movie does a great job in providing some background on the competitors of the Hunger Games and in so, creating sympathy for their situation. The actors do a great job in conveying the complex emotions that trouble them and build a sense of community within the film. Overall it was a great and deeply moving movie.