Hunger Games (Article En Anglais)

Plot:

Set in a future North America known as “Panem”, the Capitol force two youngsters from each of the twelve districts to participate in The Hunger Games", a televised fight-to-the-death. The rules are very simple: the twenty-four players must kill each other and survive in the wilderness until only one wins by surviving. The games are broadcast through the Capital and the twelve districts to entertain and intimidate the population. In District 12, the teenager Katniss Everdeen is a great hunter and archer. When her younger sister 12 year old Primrose Everdeen is selected as one of the representatives of their district, Katniss a 16 year old girl volunteers to take her place in the games. Together with Peeta Mellark, they head by train to the Capital to be trained for the brutal game, before being thrust into the arena to fight to become the victor of the seventy-fourth annual Hunger Games.

Gary Ross (the director of the film) realizes a good job: an adaptation which is transformed into the real film creation, with in particular a strong elaboration of the characters. They are alternately presented rather finely and the secondary roles show themselves (or confirm) to be very well played for the greater part. We think in particular of Elizabeth Banks in Effie's role - at the same time first representative of a society oppressive, and frightened by this one and by the role which she plays it - or still in the side street, played by the young person Amandla Stenberg at the same time innocent thrown in the arena and young spirit a roguish stalk. The character of Katniss is the center all around of which this world and characters revolves the entire.

Hunger Games reveals a society staged in a attractive, intelligent way, one, an aggravated but credible society a metaphor of escapades and risks of the world in which we live. The merit returns to the author Suzanne Collins there who imagined first of all this futuristic world but also to the director Gary Ross, who knew how to retranscribe it. For example, contrast between the big wild space of the arena and the technology which controls it is powerful. Gary Ross makes us do comings and goings between the inside of the arena and the outside (the populations of Districts in front of their screens, the leaders of the Capitol, it «game maker» in full control of the game etc.), quite permanently connected with Katniss.

That we are a fan of books or not, Hunger Games allows each to find what we atr looking for there and we can already expect a successful trilogy, if the director and the author continues to work together with this surprising coherence. The adaptation of Suzanne Collins's novel stands out as an event. Take it your nephews, nieces, brothers and sisters, they will appreciate the show, and be also allowed set in the game...

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