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Friday, 30 March 2012 20:37![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
extemporallyI watched The Hunger Games today. I mostly liked it!
+ EVERY TIME THE SALUTE CAME OUT. I cried like a baby. Collective resistance arrrrrgh
+ Also, Rue. RUE. I loved her! I thought all the scenes with her in were amazing! ALL THE TEARS.
+ Visually, it was stunning. The costumes! The Capitol fashions!
+ LENNY KRAVITZ AS CINNA OH MAN (seriously. some of my favourite scenes in the movies are the ones between Katniss & Cinna)
- Whitewashing Katniss :(
- Also, not a critique of the movie per se but ALL THE RACIST THG FANS WHO WERE LIKE 'Why is Rue black' UGHHHH PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE WHY WE CAN'T HAVE MORE POC IN MOVIES, YOU ASSHATS.
- What happened to Peeta's leg? WHY
- Also, I didn't like that the 'Peeta wasn't faking and finds out that Katniss kind of was' didn't really come out - which, srsly? I mean. The emotional place they're in at the end of the book is so different from 'we're ambivalent about how to go forward from here' and I actually thought that one of the main points of the book was 'how to form honest, fulfilling, non-performative and lasting relationships in a LITERALLY DOG-EAT-DOG WORLD'. Spoiler: you can't!
That said, I still mostly loved it! I'm not sure why. Probably because it made me cry; and you don't see that many smart movies break box-office records these days (I'm not sure if I count Inception amongst this class; this remark also prompted by the super depressing fact that in the hundred-plus cinemas across Singapore, seven movies have been hogging the screen). I also thought it straddled the line between lingering on the glamour and artifice of the Capitol and endorsing it relatively well; although that may change in the sequels to come (and the way merchandising is carried out - aren't there already THG action figures on the market?).
ALSO I WANT TO TALK ABOUT KATNISS' VERBAL REJECTION OF MOTHERHOOD AND HER DISPLAYS OF MATERNITY TOWARDS RUE & PRIM AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR A FEMINIST READING OF THE HUNGER GAMES (though I'm not sure 'feminist reading' is the right term, since I consider THG fundamentally feminist, yo Vancouver Sun no offence but I find your commentary pretty wack) HINT IT IS SOMETHING GOOD
Fever. Jet lag. These two things do not make for a) the best reviews b) most coherent readings of Orientalism :(
+ EVERY TIME THE SALUTE CAME OUT. I cried like a baby. Collective resistance arrrrrgh
+ Also, Rue. RUE. I loved her! I thought all the scenes with her in were amazing! ALL THE TEARS.
+ Visually, it was stunning. The costumes! The Capitol fashions!
+ LENNY KRAVITZ AS CINNA OH MAN (seriously. some of my favourite scenes in the movies are the ones between Katniss & Cinna)
- Whitewashing Katniss :(
- Also, not a critique of the movie per se but ALL THE RACIST THG FANS WHO WERE LIKE 'Why is Rue black' UGHHHH PEOPLE LIKE YOU ARE WHY WE CAN'T HAVE MORE POC IN MOVIES, YOU ASSHATS.
- What happened to Peeta's leg? WHY
- Also, I didn't like that the 'Peeta wasn't faking and finds out that Katniss kind of was' didn't really come out - which, srsly? I mean. The emotional place they're in at the end of the book is so different from 'we're ambivalent about how to go forward from here' and I actually thought that one of the main points of the book was 'how to form honest, fulfilling, non-performative and lasting relationships in a LITERALLY DOG-EAT-DOG WORLD'. Spoiler: you can't!
That said, I still mostly loved it! I'm not sure why. Probably because it made me cry; and you don't see that many smart movies break box-office records these days (I'm not sure if I count Inception amongst this class; this remark also prompted by the super depressing fact that in the hundred-plus cinemas across Singapore, seven movies have been hogging the screen). I also thought it straddled the line between lingering on the glamour and artifice of the Capitol and endorsing it relatively well; although that may change in the sequels to come (and the way merchandising is carried out - aren't there already THG action figures on the market?).
ALSO I WANT TO TALK ABOUT KATNISS' VERBAL REJECTION OF MOTHERHOOD AND HER DISPLAYS OF MATERNITY TOWARDS RUE & PRIM AND WHAT THAT MEANS FOR A FEMINIST READING OF THE HUNGER GAMES (though I'm not sure 'feminist reading' is the right term, since I consider THG fundamentally feminist, yo Vancouver Sun no offence but I find your commentary pretty wack) HINT IT IS SOMETHING GOOD
Fever. Jet lag. These two things do not make for a) the best reviews b) most coherent readings of Orientalism :(