the hunger games was genuinely one of the most powerful and compelling commentaries on mass media, the glorification of violence, war culture, imperialism, and capitalism that western culture has ever produced and i will never forgive hollywood for turning it into exactly what the Games were supposed to represent in the first place
#the hunger games #like the games werent the focal point!! the focal point was the huge fucking trauma and horrors that the imperialist state enacted #and the manipulation of perspective and spectacle to weaponize consumerism #i mean katniss’ survival LITERALLY depended on her ‘selling herself’ to rich consumers in order to get basic necessities #and using the poor as entertainment for the rich to feel good about pitying them while also not rectifying the basic issues#responsible for their poverty in the first place? remind you of anyting??#but the hollywood movies take one look at it and point blank refuse to actually internalize any of it #you wanna guess what the marketing for THG was? take a guess. #violence! love!! sex!!! fORbidden ROmANCE!! #not a SINGLE fucking thing about idk. social commentary! criticism of the hollywood industry as the SOURCE of the fucked-up ideology #that people in the capitol have! #the hunger games is explicitly about the relationship between public perceptions of atrocities and how the media frames those atrocities #and hollywood shamelessly and without an ounce of self-awareness proved it to be absolutely fucking accurate
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