I've been enjoying the installments of the film series, The Hunger Games. Even in the new millennium, it's still awfully hard to find a strong female lead character and competition for available roles is intense. Easier, though, than finding a role for women past that "certain age" when acting roles become as rare as chicken teeth. Men of all ages have acting roles available to them, but women, not so much.
Well, that's the end of my inequality ranting (for now, at least), but I have to bid farewell to a beloved character and series when the final film is released next month. Join me below the cheese curd for more.
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If you're not familiar with The Hunger Games, let me give you a brief look. It's a book to film series based on a world that demonstrates the height of income inequality. The rich live in The Capitol where extravagance is the order of the day whether it's fashion, hair styles, overabundance of food and drink, or lavish living spaces. The rest live in squalor in 12 very separated districts where they work brutal jobs in a specialized sector (like mining or farming or forestry) while scrounging clothes to wear and food to eat. The products of their labor go to The Capitol. Everyone is ruled by a ruthless dictator, President Snow.
There was a war that ended 75 years before when the districts rebelled against The Capitol. To further punish the districts, annual Hunger Games were established with each district required to send 2 "tributes", one young man and one young woman, to The Capitol to fight to the death in a specially constructed arena.
For the entertainment of residents in The Capitol, it was important to get the tributes to cooperate with the games. To do that, a tactic known as "sponsorship" was created. A rich sponsor could provide needed items during the games, increasing the odds that a tribute would be the sole survivor (winner) of the games and be returned to their district with a fine home and good income for the rest of their lives. As a result, tributes needed to present themselves during the run up to the games to attract sponsors.
But, there is unrest in the districts as President Snow became even more harsh with the districts. There is a great deal of focus on one tribute, Katniss Everdeen, who goes on to win the games and become symbol of the resistance. She never wanted this role, but accepts it in the end because of the continued evil of President Snow, his destruction of her district and over 90% of the people in it, and his continued threats to her and her family.
The war will begin and conclude in the last film, Mockingjay Part II.
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It will be hard to say goodbye. Just as with a book you'd like to see continue on, that moment when the end comes is bittersweet.
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