Hunger Games Movie Review for Sociology Essay Example
Movie Review: The Hunger Games The Hunger Games is a film produced based off of a novel written by Suzanne Collins. The main character of the movie is Jennifer Lawrence who is Katniss Everdeen in the movie. Katniss is starring as a 16-year-old girl from District 12, which is a poor community in the movie. District 12 is the very last district and I believe they have the least amount of money. There is a game every year played by the capitol where they choose one woman and one man from every district from ages 12 to 18. Only one survives the game and the winner takes a lot of food and money back for their district. Katniss has a sister Primrose who is drawn to play for district 12, Katniss takes her place, volunteering as tribute, so that her sister can stay alive and not have to go through such awful torment through the game. Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark is the male chosen for district 12 and so Katniss and he have only each other for the most part through the rest of the movie. Right at the beginning of the film we are introduced to Katniss’s role in the movie as the provider for the family. She uses her hunting skills to be able to exchange meat for bread or other things like yarn and household items. You can see that she has become the true guardian of her younger sister, Primrose, because of her mother going through hard trauma and depression from the father of Katniss and Primroses death. Katniss being the leader like this shows she is the dominant person in the family. They look up to her and rely on her. From the looks of their district and the understanding of their hardships with having enough food to survive shows they are in the underclass. Underclass is persistently poor and isolated from the rest of the population, which is exactly how district 12 is in the film. Social class is bigger in this film than in America, because I believe the upper class in America is very minimal, but in the movie it seems that the underclass is more minimal than