scaratthedisco:

To begin with, I am not a violent-movie type of person.  I would much prefer to cry my eyes out over Noah and Allie in The Notebook and Jack’s death in Titanic than watch a Die Hard marathon.  I don’t enjoy watching blood-and-guts gore in my movies.  I don’t watch horror films, and I kind of hid my face when Judge Turpin was murdered in Sweeney Todd.

I’m a musical theatre, classic film, and Harry Potter type of person.

However, the people who tell me that The Hunger Games is “just too violent” just don’t get it.

I have been trying to think of ways to type my reactions to HG practically since I read it.  I wanted other people to read the book as soon as I had done it almost a year ago.  Now I’m rereading the novel and feeling all of the same things again.  Everyone has to read this book.

The Hunger Games is not senseless violence.  The Hunger Games is real and true and says more about human nature than almost any book that comes to mind.  Suzanne Collins’ novel is not completely from her imagination.  In the days of the Roman Empire, people were sacrificed for the amusement of others often enough.  The bullfighting legends of Spain end in the violent death of a bull or the fighter.  When two teenagers decide to solve their differences with fists in the hallway, everyone gathers around to watch for blood or bruises.

We live in a violent culture, and Hunger Games shows us that.  If the Games seem far-fetched and unreal, they aren’t.  We have the violence, indifference to human life, and bloodlust that the Capitol has – we just don’t admit it or wear the silly costumes.

In the novel, didn’t you cheer for Cato’s death?  Didn’t you long for the cannon to go off so that you would know that Peeta and Katniss were one step closer to victory?  Didn’t you want the deaths of the other tributes, just like Katniss found herself longing for?  Just like the gamblers in the Capitol who put their money on the star-crossed lovers from District 12?

The film and the reaction of people most than anything have shown me this.  The horrible tweets that have come out about the casting of Thresh, Cinna, and Rue show me that our society has the hate needed for the Games.  One person even claimed that Rue’s skin color made her death less sad.  How, in the twenty-first century, do we have people who cry less over a dead black girl than a dead white one?  Hate exists in our world, and not just in far-off places or Panem.  Hate is here and now.

Hate is what fuels the Games.  Every tribute in that Arena has a family.  Every tribute might have a Prim.  Even the “good guys” kill.  Katniss, our heroine and girl on fire, finds that killing a boy is not so different from hunting.  Is it right to kill if it will save others?  Is it right to kill to protect yourself and bring yourself safely back home?  Katniss confronts horrible truths about human life and being human that some in this world have had to encounter themselves.

The Games are real, and we have the society that Collins warns us about in her novel.  My hope, and the hope of thousands who have read the book, I’m sure, is that we learned from the horrors in the movie and keep them from coming onto our own television screens soon.

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trophic:

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