The People’s Review IV: The Hunger Games

Let it not be said that the People’s Critic hates all film for the Capitalist Propaganda Machine that they are. Every once in a while a hero of the people makes it into the starring role in a film. The Hunger Games is one such film. While very unoriginal {Battle Royal (2000), Greek Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur}, the Hunger Games does espouse a fine message of Hope for the working class.

 The film is set in the original setting of the post-apocalyptic future. In this case a far off land has conquered the hard working peoples of Districts 1-14. They then seem to be sorted by class, the higher your district number the poorer you are. The people of the Districts are reminded annually of their overlords in the capital by being forced to sacrifice a pair of children to fight to the death for their entertainment. The proletariat of district 12 toil away to scratch out a life and barley struggling to keep alive. Then soldiers from the capital arrive and a pair of children is kidnapped for all to see, broadcast on radio and TV to enforce the symbolism of the event.

The children are then whisked away on a fine train to their nearly certain deaths in the death pits of the capital. They are greeted by a ruling class of bourgeois that spend their entire lives adorning themselves in extravagance while they live off the hard work of the proletariat. The gladiators are then paraded around like meat before the slaughter so that the capitalists may select their favorites to dispense favors to at their whims. Eventually, the children form district 12 are able to band together and fight against their oppressors, spawning a revolution which we can only assume the proletariat wins, but is not shown at the close of the film. The proletariat rejoices.

Ratings:

Capitalist Slant 1/10 as the film depicts capitalism for the empty and corrupt system that it is.

Glory 10/10 due to the true depictions as the proletariat worker as the glorious liberators they are.

People's Recommendation: Petition the schools to adopt this fine film as an example for the young to enjoy!