Hunger Games
Movies and makers
Blood sacrifice
Author: Collins, Suzanne
“The Hunger Games” Sugarcoats Tyranny for Kids
“The Hunger Games”: A Glimpse at the New World Order? The
Hunger Games is set in world that is exactly what is described to be the
New World Order: A rich and powerful elite, an exploited and dumbed-down mass of
people, the dissolving of democracies into a police state entities, high-tech
surveillance, mass media used for propaganda and a whole lot of blood rituals.
There is indeed nothing optimistic in the dystopian future described in The
Hunger Games. Even human dignity is revoked as the masses are forced to
watch their own children killing each others as if they were caged animals. That
being said, there is little to no difference between movie goers who watch the
movie The Hunger Games and the masses in the movie that witness the
cruelty of the Games. Both are willing participants in an event that portrays
the sacrifice of their own under the amused eye of the elite. Furthermore, one
can argue that the movie accomplishes the same functions as the Games in the
movie: Distracting the masses with blood and sex while reminding it of the
elite’s power.
Is The Hunger Games
attempting to warn an apathetic youth of the danger of allowing the current
system to devolve into a totalitarian nightmare? Or is it simply programming it
to perceive the coming of a New World Order as an inevitability? That question
is up for debate. But reading what is being said in the mass media about The
Hunger Games, it seems there is an even more important question up for
debate: Are you Team Peeta or Team Gale?
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