AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Hunger games catching fire cast11/25/2023 Like its predecessor, Catching Fire engages serious themes with a fairly light touch. She’s not doing it out of strategy, but from the heart – which of course makes her all the more compelling as a rallying figure. While visiting one of the other districts, where Katniss and Peeta are forced to offer eulogies for the community’s fallen children, she inadvertently incites the crowd by offering a genuinely anguished remembrance. Lawrence especially shines when she lets that disgust burst out. And so she agrees to join Peeta on a “parade of champions” tour, even if the whole charade disgusts her.Ĭatching Fire engages serious themes with a fairly light touch. (In Lawrence, they also have an actress capable of pulling this off.) Katniss may be a wild card, but so far she’s a reluctant revolutionary – a girl more concerned with keeping her mother and sister safe than in leading any sort of rebellion. One of the wonderful things about both films is the way they ground the political machinations within the psychology of a complex character. Not that it’s a role she’s eager to embrace. Having won the game in a non-traditional way – she and fellow District 12 contestant Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) outwitted the game-makers so that both would survive – Katniss has become something of a rebel figure for the people of the more downtrodden districts. Turns out, pretty much what we got before: a well-crafted and superbly acted sci-fi dystopia that resonates with much of what’s happening in our current age and will likely resonate well into the future.Ĭatching Fire finds teen heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) back home in District 12 after surviving a sadistic, gladiator-style contest against other youth put on annually by her totalitarian government. Add the fact that the sequel, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, brought in a new director (Francis Lawrence) and new screenwriters (Simony Beaufoy and Michael Arndt) and who knew what we were going to get? I liked The Hunger Games quite a bit – it made my 2012 top-ten list – but it was hard to tell if the initial adaptation of the Suzanne Collins book series was simply a fluke. We have ourselves a bona fide science-fiction movie series, people.
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |