Tonight I went to see the Hunger Games in the cinema, and it has left me feeling quite confused, I'm not sure how I feel about it.
Before I went in I had heard it was a good film, and I thought I would probably love it, although I was curious to see how they handled such a serious subject matter for a teen audience. For those who don't know the film is about a teenage girl who is forced to take part in a state-run TV competition which involves being thrown into the jungle to fight to the death against 23 of her peers. It is based on a novel aimed at teenagers and the target audience is similar to Twlight.
I came out of the film feeling quite confused, and now I have had 2 hours to think about it, I'm not sure I liked it. I certainly didn't like the main character, if you could call her that. The writers didn't seem to think she needed a consistent character. Thanks to that she had no continuous traits I could identify with and so have any empathy or sympathy for her. She was acted well though, I will say that.
On that note you can say all the acting was pretty good, the sound track worked well, it was shot nicely, the contrasting colours and lighting effects between the city & the districts work well to emphasis the different areas etc etc. It was overall a well made film which should have been a generally enjoyable experience.
However, it had one fatal flaw that it could never get over - the subject matter was too dark for the style of film. The subject is about young children being forced to kill each other by their government but the target audience is 14 year old girls. Because of this the whole issue had to be lightened up and skirted round, and it left me not sure what type of film I was supposed to be watching. It just didn't work.
I might be wrong, certainly the critics and the box office figures would tell you I'm wrong. But this film is the first in a trilogy and it left me with no desire to see the next 2 films and that definitely wasn't the film makes intention.
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