Is The Hunger Games Relevant To Today's Society

'The Hunger Games' directed by Gary Ross, is an extreme demonstration of what the world could be coming to. The Hunger Games is relevant to today's society because it is a perfect demonstration of our world meets the future. It embellishes what is happening in this day and age. Poverty and riches are demonstrated to us from the start of the film when shown the clip of the Capitol and District 12 and how they contrast with one another. Something that is further compared to the Capitol and District 12 is desensitization, how both places react to the horrible circumstances of which people are put in. Finally, the last thing that today's people should be paying attention to is the dictatorship of countries and how that ruins lives, and how dictatorship

However as we get further through the film, we get witness three substantially different societies. (The Capitol, Districts 1 & 2, Then Districts 3 through 12) In the movie, when you see them having to watch the Hunger Games, they have the 'right' emotional reactions. For example when Rue dies and Katniss gives her a burial and sings her to death, the shot gets switched to District 11 where Rue came from and instead of laughing or placing bets like the Capitol would or moving on thinking that its one less person to deal with like districts 1 & 2, they reciprocated Katniss sign of respect with the three finger salute. Then proceed to start an uprising taking their anger out on the Capitol's peacekeepers. However when you get to witness the Capitol, all you can see is them enjoying everything that happens in the hunger games. Or how different their lifestyles are. For example, right after Katniss gets hit with a fireball, and Hamish sees that she is in distress, he looks around. When he looks around you can see the Capitols lavish lifestyle and how a couple gave their child a sword and the kid proceeds to thrust it towards his sister, and saying to his day I'm going to kill you. The look of disgust on Haymitch face is enough to know that they really have no sense of reality. The Capitol laughing and living up their lives whilst watching people die for their entertainment or

At the beginning of the film, we get shown a mini film, which talks about the history of the Hunger Games and how they came about The statement is telling all of the Districts don’t bother to fight us we have already won. (The us being the Capitol) The Hunger Games is a painful reminder of how one district (13) decided to uprise against the government and are now all die from it. To celebrate (reinforce the message of we own you and will destroy anyone who fights us) the history of it.. The Capitol decided to make a game out of it all. Taking one woman and man from each district to fight to the death and then whoever wins will live in luxury for the rest of their lives, as a reminder of how 'giving' the Capitol is. Later on in the film when the Game Maker is talking to the President about how he likes an underdog trying to get out of trouble for giving Katniss high marks for shooting an arrow at their pig's apple in its mouth. The president goes on to talk about how he doesn’t like an underdog as it gives hope. Hope is good in small amounts, but when everyone has hope, it will undermine the balance of his control over Panem. The president admits that his operation is fragile and it can easily be undone with only one thing. That is hope. These things are a showing you about how Panmen is being run under dictatorship. Dictatorship is bad. Dictatorship gains control over exploiting