For the purposes of fangirling. And other things.

Secondly, when I watched this film in a packed theater on opening night, I experienced this horrible moment of cognitive dissonance in the scene where Thresh brutally murders Clove, the young, female tribute from district 2. Here is the problem, we as the audience in the real world are watching a story in which, a fictional capitol audience in turn is watching and deriving pleasure from the murder of children. So understandably, you and I are supposed to be horrified by the whole media spectacle of the Hunger Games. But when Clove’s head is bashed in and her lifeless body is thrown to the ground, the real life audience in the theater I was in actually cheered and gained satisfaction from her death.

THIS. I found it really disturbing, when I saw the film, that some people in the cinema laughed at parts of the film that were obviously very serious. I find the concept of The Hunger Games horrific and incredibly sad and find it very hard to believe that everyone else wouldn’t feel the same.

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