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Films » The Hunger Games

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In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.

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Poster for The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games

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Reasonable adaptation. It’s still a YA novel at heart, with everything that goes with that.

Felt like it was laying things on a bit thick cinematography-wise, with the difference in colours, frenetic camera motions, and so on.