The Hunger Games
March 12, 2012 in theaters
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.
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"I volunteer as tribute."
DID YOU KNOW?
Suzanne Collins wrote Katniss as explicitly left-handed -- Jennifer Lawrence had to learn to shoot a bow left-handed.
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A sharper and more politically serious adaptation than many viewers may have expected from a YA franchise starter. The film commits to the dystopian premise without softening it for its audience, and Jennifer Lawrence's Katniss is one of the better action protagonists of the decade -- capable, conflicted, and never reduced to a symbol. The shaky-cam aesthetic in the arena sequences is a legitimate criticism. A franchise starter that understood its source material's actual subject.
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