The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by
Suzanne Collins is the second book/movie in the Hunger Games trilogy. It was
released at November 22, 2013, and it has been receiving great ratings and
reviews. Source: www.rogerebert.com
Susan Wloszczyna's
review on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is directed at all the fans of the ever
popular Hunger Games Series that features a girl named Katniss Everdeen who is forced to
play a deadly game of survival with other tributes from each districts. By the
way Wloszczyna describes the second movie of the trilogy as something that
"makes my inner feminist-leaning 13-year-old stand up and cheer" and
gives the movie three stars out of three stars, anyone could guess that her
intention of the review is to get more people to see this new popular movie.
Throughout her review, Wloszczyna first summarizes her favorite part of the
whole movie, when "Katniss...suddenly twirls about in her would-be wedding
dress during a TV interview meant to distract the downtrodden populace of
Panem" (Wloszczyna 2), but then moves on to symbolisms and deeper analysis
about the plot and characters that makes
the plot of the whole story more intriguing. Wloszczyna discusses about the
elements that makes the movie effective such as the plot, great actors with
great talents, connection to the real world, Spectacular director and
Oscar-winning writers, but she also shows how
the movie is criticized "from the same 'something old, something
borrowed' disease that is the enemy of originality in too many Hollywood
efforts of the late" (Wloszczyna 9). Apparently, there are many references
in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire such as "Lost" and
"Survivor", Star Wars, "The Running Man", and Roman and
Greek mythologies, but Wloszczyna argues that there is one truly original invention,
and that is Katniss, "the perfect antidote to the surplus of male
superheroes out there" (Wloszczyna 11). To make sure that her review is
not just a boring statement of facts, Wloszczyna uses allusions to other films
and real life ideas, vivid dictions, and specific details to make a humorous
yet very informing piece of writing. I believe that the author definitely
persuaded me to go and watch The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
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