![]() “You never get off this train.”Īnd when Katniss doesn’t give in, the president tries a different strategy: He hires a new game maker – Plutarch Heavensbee, who sounds like a character from Harry Potter – to create the 75 th Hunger Games, also called the “Quarter Quell”. “This trip doesn’t end when you get back home,” Haymitch tells her on the train to the Capitol. Being like them isn’t winning – it’s surviving. “Be like us,” the Greeks said, “and your life will be better.”īut being like the enemy only makes life better because the enemy is in charge. So he wants to get her to act like those who live in the Capitol – to show everyone that she’s become The Man. She doesn’t actually have to be alive for that. And now he can’t just kill her, because that won’t stop everyone from rallying behind her. Needless to say, the president is not happy. She goes around the country with Peeta (her TV husband), Haymitch (Woody Harrelson without the alcohol), and their escort, Lady Gaga, and she accidentally starts more fires along the way. Katniss, “the girl on fire”, is the spark that lets everyone else catch fire too.Īnd what do they do with her? What they do with all the winners – they give her a victory tour. She stood up and flipped over the game board.Īnd now everyone else is standing up as well. She gave new meaning to the term, “beating the game”. She reminded them that the enemy was not each other, but the game itself. But now this show they all watch is actually the spark that got them to start rebelling, when everyone – the entire nation – saw Katniss threaten to eat poison berries in the 74 th Games. For a long time, everyone was thinking about rebellion, so he created the Hunger Games to be a show that everyone watches that pits districts against each other to discourage them from banding together. Katniss is the one celebrity on the one show that everyone watches. In this world, even the poorest of the poor have hologram TVs down in the mines, and the only show besides the news, as far as we can tell, is the Hunger Games. She just wants to be free to hunt turkeys and have her little love triangle dramas.īut it doesn’t really matter what she wants. What’s one girl? Sure, there’s a rebellion, but what does it have to do with her? She doesn’t start the rebellion. ![]() Isn’t there, like, a rebellion brewing?Īnd this isn’t even a particularly ambitious girl. Um, don’t you have a country to run? I don’t know that you have room in your life to be obsessed with reality TV. Is it just because she wears a dress that turns into flame, and, like the candles in the story of Hanukkah, can keep burning but not get consumed?īut the question goes even deeper than that: For the entire movie, the president of Panem – the most powerful man in the world who rules over the mining district, the fishing district, the clown makeup district, the diamond district, and the district that manufactures hologram TVs for poor people, and so on – is entirely obsessed with one girl. Though you have to wonder, what does that title even have to do with the movie? I don’t actually remember anyone catching on fire. Obviously, there’s the fire reference in the title. ![]() What are they eating? Tea and toast?)īut there are more parallels. Though when I throw up, I usually don’t feel like going on eating. (They actually have drinks that make them throw up so they can go on eating. And not just because the folks in the Capitol are sort of like the Greeks, with their chariots and their Olympic games and their bulimia. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire – part 2 of the 4-part Hunger Games Trilogy – strikes several parallels to the story of Hanukkah. ![]() “Yeah, but we have a candle! And it’s staying lit longer than we thought it would!”īut sometimes a movie comes along that shows why a small thing can still be a big deal. Why do we care so much? We’re fighting an army here! Even if the miracle itself is impressive, it’s one candle. We come back from being away for the holidays, and I’m like, “Has this light been on for 8 days?” It’s not impressive, it’s annoying.īut my point is that this all seems like a pretty small deal. Is the miracle of Hanukkah more impressive than Die Hard?Īs far as a candle staying lit for 8 days, well, my kids leave lights on for days all the time.Īnd as far as a candle staying lit for 8 days, we have light bulbs these days that can stay on for years. Almost every movie we see is about the few conquering the many. Yes, the few conquered the many, and the weak conquered the strong. The miracle of Hanukkah doesn’t seem so impressive to us these days.
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