I read the three "Hunger Games" books this week. Partly b/c the movie is coming out. I read the first book a long time ago and disliked it. But I wanted to be able to tell people WHY I was not going to go see the movie: I don't like the books. Now that I've read all three, I can still say "I don't like the books". And I will not be seeing the movie.
But let me ask you a philosophical question...
Premises:
1) The barbarity of having children murder each other in the arena was considered prime entertainment for the citizens living in the dystopian Panem Capitol.
2) The Hunger Games books are quite violent. The movie is also quite violent. Violent and bloody and gory enough that the "British censors agreed to give the film a "12A" rating only after some footage was cut." In America, "The Hunger Games has been rated PG-13 "for intense violent thematic material and disturbing images - all involving teens.""
Intense, violent, disturbing images.
So here's my philosophical question:
If you judge the citizens of the Panem Capitol to be idiots (or whatever word you choose) because they view the Hunger Games as entertainment...
Why the HECK are YOU viewing the intensely violent and disturbing movie as entertainment???
Shouldn't you be applying the same measure of judgment to yourself? If it's horrible for the fictional characters to find murder entertaining, why are you excited about the film? You'll be viewing that same murder as a form of entertainment. So... what the heck??
Ok, let the flame wars begin, and may the odds be ever in your favor.
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