``The Hunger Games'' junior high and high school students dream of becoming a pop star revolutionary

99% vs 1%

Gary Ross and other ``first-class staff'' have assembled a story that could be considered a kind of ``flock'', but they give it a splendid ``depth'' that befits a first-class crew. The coal-mining district where Katniss lives in Panem, the setting for The Hunger Games, has an almost Wild West feel to it. They live a life of eating wild birds they have hunted, wearing rags, and holding fire in their fingernails. On the other hand, only wealthy people live in the capital city. Wearing dresses and suits that look like Jean Paul Gaultier's tastefully designed designs, they enjoy watching the poor people The Game each other while eating a fancy dinner.

This contrast is blatantly emblematic of America at the time (and now). It is a ``99% vs. 1%'' structure in which the richest 1% monopolize the wealth in the United States and are built on the poor 99%.

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However, while symbolizing this current situation, the movie ``The Hunger Games'' also serves as an escape for real-life junior high and high school students. The reason junior high and high school students are so passionate about reality shows and audition programs is because they witness the young people who enter them rising to stardom, and they think, ``Even someone who is inferior to me can become a star walking on the red carpet, so I can too.'' This is because they mistakenly believe that they can do it! The ``The Hunger The Game'' in the movie are portrayed as frightening as it is a desperate struggle with a low survival rate, but when it was actually announced that it would be held in present-day America, the situation suddenly turned around and young people were intent on making a comeback. Isn't it overflowing?

Every day is the same, spent at school or at my part-time job. Instead of watching celebrities on TV and venting your sorrows, you probably want to go to the other side of the TV. ``I don't really care if I die.Even if I live, I won't be able to live like a celebrity.'' The "The Hunger Games" system would work in real life in exactly the opposite sense. The first ``The Hunger Games'' serves as a receptacle for these feelings, and the stories that follow `` The Hunger Games 2 '' show us the dark reality and solid hope that awaits beyond that.

In other words, the best means to break through this closed society is ``revolution.''

Text: Samurai Isao

Designer by profession, film writer by profession. He is working hard to promote Indian films in Japan.

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