The Hunger Games

[ayascythe]

I have a lot of feels about this movie and I don't even know how to phrase them. Just let me tell you beforehand that this was very, very good movie and it's really worth watching. At first, I kind of had to get over my first moment of "WTF why would anyone ever agree to this bullshit?", but then the world got explained a little better.

The movie in itself was hard for me to watch. I can't even explain it, but there was an underlying ... something that really, really upset me in a way that few movies do. Maybe it was the cold with which everything was portrayed, the way people seemed to take the cruelty with a shrug or even as an entertaining event. There was little violence that was directly shown, but they didn't need to do that. The real uncomfortableness takes place in your head. Also, I tend to overly feel with the characters, thinking "what would I do in their place?" and the answers to that are not very reassuring (i.e.: I'd be one of the first to die, I'd probably break down crying all the time, I could never, never kill anyone, even if my life depended on it, and I don't know shit about survival, so I'd die either way - in other words: I'd be like Peeta, only worse).

I loved Katniss. She was a fierce, strong, protective main character and I LOVE that she was the one taking things into her own hands. I wish there were more of those: female characters that other girls can look up to. There's a desperate lack of them in movies and literature. I also loved Peeta, because he was such a real, flawed character, who made mistakes and was afraid and didn't always know what to do. (I also loved that he was the one dependent on the girl, unlike in - oh, every other Hollywood movie ever, where the girls always have to be the damsels in distress.) And last but not least, I liked Gale. Can't there be a happy threesome happy ending for them? I didn't like seeing him sad. (It's Chris Hemsworth's little brother! That does things to me, okay? XD)