RE: Hunger Games

Alright, guys. I've recovered from shock about the Hunger Games and I am here to tell you about it...

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire starts off at a point that is some time after Katniss's victory of the 74th Annual Hunger Games. She suffers from PTSD, as we see when Katniss shoots a squirrel. When she lets that arrow fly, her imagination triggers the moment when she shot the boy who killed Rue. She flips out and it takes a few moments to recover from this episode.

Katniss then shortly after begins her Victory Tour, starting in District 11 and working her way up to the Capitol... always keeping in mind what President Snow had told her just before she left for the train station. "Convince me, Miss Everdeen." He wants Katniss to convince him that she and Peeta are madly in love, and that her stunt at the end of the 74th Hunger Games was a desperate act out of love for the boy with the bread. After an incident in District 11 where an elderly man raises his right hand with three fingers raised and he whistles the familiar Mockingjay call that Rue and Katniss had invented. The man is brought before the people of District 11 on stage and is shot.

"Haymitch, just help me get through this Tour, PLEASE!" Katniss pleads. But what Haymitch says catches all of us off-guard. "This Tour doesn't just end here. You guys will become mentors, your story of romance will live on forever, your private life will become the Capitol's life; you will never be free. " Whoa, very straight forward, Haymitch! But, in the end, he's right. Katniss tells Peeta and Haymitch what their mission is, convince Snow. Easier said than done, Katniss.

At the Capitol's party, Katniss looks at Snow and he shakes his head in disapproval, as if saying, "Miss Everdeen, you failed." So it begins. At home, when the Reaping is to take place, Snow announces that 2 Victors from previous games and the various districts must compete... as you can imagine, every single Victor, especially District 12's, are really mad. And the arena follows shortly after.

When Katniss enters the tube, she witnesses the death of her stylist Cinna, who had shown up the Capitol by making a Mockingjay dress for Katniss. Snow's not happy, and decides to take his anger out on Cinna. Then the arena begins and so do the games.

At the very end, when Katniss wakes up from the explosion of the arena, Gale sits by her. "Gale? What are you doing here? Where's Prim?" Gale answers softly that they're ok. "I got them out just in time. They sent in Hovercraft, and started dropping the bombs." Katniss asks, " Are they still in 12?"

                                                  "Katniss, there is no District 12."




                                                     The Hunger Games: Catching Fire


On a scale of 1-10 compared to the first movie, I'd give this a 13. So must begin the war in the epic conclusion of the Hunger Games trilogy: MockingJay.

P.S. I dedicate this post to +Nuked Dew ... the biggest Hunger Games geek I know.