on the hunger games
hey lj I know I've been neglecting you but I have a lot of (too many) feelings now that I've finished Mockingjay and nowhere else to put them, so I'm leaving them here for my OCD purposes. Also, just noticing: I think I have this odd tendency to have this sort of apologetic tone whenever I talk about stuff I'm interested in and care about and I
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I wouldn't be that surprised if they cut down on all the heavy drugging and self destructiveness of the last book in general. That's if they get to a third movie, if the first needs to make enough money first.
Yeah I don't know it's funny, I haven't really reacted to something like this since I saw a movie called Earth (by Deepa Mehta, tragic and flawless and about the partition of India/Pakistan, recommended much more than this.) It's not like I haven't read depressing things before about similar subjects, but it hit a nerve that lots of books and movies that try this hard didn't and I can't really put my finger on why that is. I don't know if that necessarily makes something great or means just because you can do it means it's the best thing to do-because I think it's way easier to make people miserable with art than do other things.
Or maybe this is just a me thing, because I can handle large amounts of death and gore(though Finnick's death was pretty bad), but seeing people suffer horribly in life is a lot worse for me. But I dunno, as someone who's dealt with depression and buried enough people in my life it definitely irritated me with how blatantly manipulative the end was trying to be, but it(specifically those 20 pages)still completely creeped me out in a lot of ways.
I was actually thinking about how around the time DH came out I'd lost a bunch of people and reading the final book was pretty cathartic at the time. I can't really imagine if this book had come out then instead.
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Yea, angst is good but I think art is best when it takes the harshness of life and helps you deal with it instead of just dashing it out. (this is why I love the "Vincent and the Doctor" episode so much, it's all in that speech about Vincent using his anguish to create beauty and pile of good things and TEARS FOREVER YET ALSO HAPPY TEARS I AM RAMBLING NOW). HP does it brilliantly (and not just within the story itself- JKR also used her depression and the loss of her mother to drive the writing) and I'm glad you had it at such a hard time <3
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Yeah, like I said usually when movies try this hard to be depressing/fucked up I just think they're bad. I wonder if Collins saw PTSD first-hand with her dad because that'd explain a lot: it seemed so important to her to get that kind of misery across and for people to really feel it. Plot-wise the book definitely fits with a lot of the cliches of war movies more than YA adventure fic, people falling apart/becoming monsters as a social commentary. At least the kind of war books I read.
I definitely take the HP approach, ALL the piles of things are a part of life, to recognize the good things are there isn't sugarcoating, that's what life is.
AND HARRY POTTER IS REAL LIFE I WON'T HEAR ANY DISSENTING VIEWS.
Thanks<3
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