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The Hunger Games (film) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
For the longest time I avoided the movie. What? Kids getting into fights kinda movie? I thought. But once I watched one, I realized the last time I got this excited about a movie was with the
Bourne movies. Movie effects can't carry a movie. But they can help a strong plot. And there has to be a timelessness to the theme.
Technological advances will not cure the basic savagery of human nature. There are other remedies to the savagery. And
The Hunger Games speak to that. With the Bourne movies it was the idea of a
super soldier going to battle with a super government agency. That is the eternal tussle between the individual and the state.