It's movie review time once again here at Rattle Bag Towers and
this month I'll be reviewing "The Hunger Games". I haven't read the
books, but certainly will now that I've seen the film, because that's always
the best way to do it - there can be no scary surprises that way. (I am of
course joking; the best thing to do is eat the book, to really absorb the
story.)
Anyway, here's a photograph that has become quite famous because
it is the image used with the film for the poster:
It is a mocking jay. Mocking jays are used to good effect IN THIS
FILM. I don't believe these things really exist because I have never eaten one.
Find me a person that has and I will believe that they exist.
This film has Jennifer Lawrence in it. She was also in X-Men:
First Class and portrayed Mystiques therein. In this film, she is not blue. In
real life, she goes out with Nicholas Holts, which is nice because in X-Men:
First Vlass, both of their characters were blue, but neither one is blue in
real life, as far as I'm aware.
In this film, Jennifer Lawrence is called Katniss, but the way
they say it, it sounds like Catness, which I take to mean there is an essence
of cat about her. This is true, because at the beginning she is very good at
hunting, like a cat, and there is a lot of talk about selling skwurls. We never
see any skwurls, but I imagine they look something like this:
The fifty P represents a fifty P and can be used to get a good
idea of scale. Jennifer Lawrence uses a bow and arrow, which a cat would not
do, but she is still quite cat-like in terms of hunting.
Katniss volunteers to take part in the 74th Annual Hunger Games.
When I first saw the adverts for this film, I naturally assumed that the
contestants had to play a giant game of Hungry Hippos, because that's the only
hunger game I could think of. However there is much more killing involved. Here
is a photograph taken on set of some of the blood they used in the film.
As you can see, there is a bit of bone in it. It is not real bone.
It might be though, but I don't know.
This is a really good film in a blockbuster kind of a way. I would
definitely take my advice and eat the books first though, because the ending is
open, which would make sense because the books come as a trilogy. You will
certainly be HUNGRY for more.
I give it 8 skwurls out of 9 trees.
