{"id":920,"date":"2012-04-04T09:30:58","date_gmt":"2012-04-04T08:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/?p=920"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T13:44:15","slug":"the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/920\/the-hunger-games","title":{"rendered":"The Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Synopsis:<\/em> The United States of America have long been gone. In its place, between the Appalachians and the Rockies, is now the country of Panem, consisting of 12 districts and the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Many years ago the 13 districts rose against the Capitol and paid a high price for it. The riot-leading district was completely annihilated. And the 12 other districts have to endure a humiliation every year which proves the total superiority of the Capitol.<br \/>\nEvery year each district has to send a girl and a boy between the ages 12 and 18 to the Capitol \u2013 where these 24 kids will fight each other until only one survives: The Hunger Games.<\/p>\n<p><em>My Opinion:<\/em> Originally I had planned to read the book completely before I watch the movie. Didn\u2019t turn out that way. I just made it to the point where Katniss has her fiery ride into the Arena.<br \/>\nMy problem with the movie was that there was no real suspense building up. Sure I didn\u2019t know if Peeta was going to survive, but still. The book on the other hand was very interesting to the point where I read it.<br \/>\nAnd even the end left me hanging because there was no scene that hinted at what was coming next. Let me make the comparison to <em>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring<\/em> here: At the end of the movie it was clear that Frodo and Samwise would be travelling towards Mordor and Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli would try to rescue Merry and Pippin from the Orcs. The question \u201cWhat now?\u201d didn\u2019t come up. <em>The Hunger Games<\/em> on the other hand simply ended. Some viewers who are not aware that this is a trilogy will probably scratch their heads even more.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t want to assume anything yet since it\u2019s well known that movie sometimes interpret their original material rather freely but I wasn\u2019t pleased with the actual ending of the movie either.<br \/>\n<strong>Spoiler (mark to read):<\/strong><br \/><span style=\"color: #FFFFFF;\">I would have wished that \u2013 when there were only three left and were standing on the transporter \u2013 they simply had refused to continue this farce. Now it\u2019s more of a clich\u00e9 ending where everyone from District 1 is simply a mindless killer. Also the closing interview would have been a good place to stir things up a little. Instead she played nice and did what her mentor told her to do. I hope her motivation is better explained in the book. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>[youtube RNxb28j5C1w]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: The United States of America have long been gone. In its place, between the Appalachians and the Rockies, is now the country of Panem,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,1102],"tags":[1372,907],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema","category-short-review","tag-the-hunger-games","tag-the-lord-of-the-rings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":922,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions\/922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/doena-journal.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}