on the hunger games

[hassibah]

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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[lunylucy]

I veeeery much doubt they would end with shooting Coin, but I wouldn't be surprised if they added something where Katniss gets to (gasp!) justify her actions/defend herself, lending to one of her famed improvised speeches that will maybe help people recognize oppression and bad government in general, not just when it looks like a snake and makes a game of children killing each other? I'm sure they'll also do the epilogue and actually seeing Katniss and Peeta with their kids in a nice little meadow will be better than just reading about it from a (forever) broken person's POV.

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

[hassibah]

Haha now that I've brought it up I've got a bad feeling the movie's going to be like 90% love triangle and 10% failed war-on-terror allegory.

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