The Catching Fire: Movie Analysis

Telling a story in a futuristic world gives you this freedom to explore things that bother you in contemporary times. So, in the case of the Hunger Games, issues like the vast discrepancy of wealth, the power of television and how it's used to influence our lives, the possibility that the government could use hunger as a weapon, and then first and foremost to me, the issue of war.
– Suzanne Collins (Hudson, n.d.)

‘The Hunger Games’ series, one of the best selling sci-fi book series, is now an award-winning motion moving picture in the cinema. It is about the ¬¬¬¬post-apocalyptic nation (Donston-Miller, 2014) between Panem in North America, who are under the oppression of a pernicious totalitarian government (Ford, 2014) located in the Capitol.

For an instance, in the second film, ‘The Catching Fire’, there are big close-ups of their faces that make people feel intimate with the characters, like they are coming to life. They also make use of wide landscape format with a lot of space, allowing room for more reflection. This engages audience to be on the same page, since the allegory of the story can be compared to other factors such as races, sexual orientation or social classes, helping people to relate to these characters.

Texture is another key aspect that can change the entire atmosphere that the director wants to give to the movie. In the second movie, the director of ‘The Catching Fire’, Francis Lawrence and the cinematographer, Jo Williems, decided to work with Kodak 35mm anamorphic format as their main medium because film has an effect that digital does not, and because it gave the moving images some texture. The texture was so that it did not make the idea too perfect or artificial, and avoided the raw, futuristic kind of atmosphere that they did not want - but created a vibe of reality and

The movie shows this message through visuals, with the help of design principles that accentuates the purpose. The fact that it does not pinpoint a particular time of history or event, and instead, focuses more on the futuristic and technologically advanced capitalism and importance of reality television is so that it bring surface more of what will happen in the future, more than just what happened before. It raises awareness on what is going on in the world, driving them to do something about it.

This shows me how much communication is utmost crucial in the process of making my final product, and what factors will aid the deliverance of my ideas. ‘The Hunger Games’ series talks about world war and other social problems through the protagonist as the emblem, without any of the ideas obscured in any way. Films can help a story and characters come to life, and convey complex ideas in a short period of time. It creates an imaginary visual to help people experience worlds beyond their own, while they learn about the underlying message that they will