What I want to share with you today is the film series adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name – "The Hunger Games".
The movie "The Hunger Games" officially entered the audience's eyes in 2012. A total of four films were filmed before and after, presenting us with another wonderful dystopian world.
My eldest cousin Jennifer Lawrence dedicated her best youth to "The Hunger Games". With her truly amazing acting skills, the movie became a hot topic at the time at an astonishing rate of one film a year.
This time, I will review this classic series in two parts.
First, let’s review the wonderful plots of the four movies together.
"The Hunger Games" Part 1
The heroine Katniss, played by Big Cousin, lives in a magical country – Panem. With the capital as the center, it is composed of 12 regions with different styles.
The most important day for Panem every year is the Harvest Festival, and on this day, in order to commemorate the suppression of the rebellion, the whole country will witness a bloody and thrilling game, known as the Hunger Games.
The so-called Hunger Games involves selecting a man and a woman from each region as tribute and entering an arena carefully designed by the game designer to fight each other. The game has almost no rules, and the only goal is to outlast all your opponents. Because, in The Hunger Games, only one person is allowed to survive to the end.
The eldest cousin lives in District 12, which is isolated from the world. People here do heavy physical work related to coal mines and live a leisurely and ordinary life, but they enjoy this simple happiness very much. The same goes for my eldest cousin.
Until the 74th Hunger Games came, this simplicity was completely broken.
The eldest cousin's sister became the tribute representing District 12 in the lottery. The eldest cousin knew very well that there was no chance of her sister surviving in the competition. Therefore, she resolutely became a volunteer and took her sister's place to participate in the Hunger Games.
The other person from District 12 who was drawn as a tribute is a boy named Peeta. Together with his eldest cousin, he will represent District 12 in the 74th Hunger Games.
Accompanying them are the agent Effie, who is wearing heavy makeup and splendid appearance, and the mentor from District 12 who once won the championship in the Hunger Games, Haymitch.
The former is responsible for organizing the tributes' schedules, and the latter is responsible for coaching the tributes how to compete.
When the eldest cousin and Peeta took the train to the capital, people here dressed up and lined the streets to welcome them, eager to see the new athletes.
Each group of tributes will have its own stylist.
Stylists will design outfits for the contestants based on the characteristics of their region. A stylist named Senna stunned the audience with the magic touch he prepared for his eldest cousin and Peeta, and left a deep impression on everyone. The flame special effects he prepared for the tributes from District 12, who make a living by mining, became The biggest highlight that attracted everyone's attention, the eldest cousin got a famous nickname overnight – The Girl On Fire! The burning girl.
My eldest cousin has been hunting since she was a child, so she has excellent archery skills.
During the ability evaluation session before the competition, she hit an apple on the judges' table with a cloud-piercing arrow, shocking the judges into a cold sweat. Her superb shooting skills earned her a high evaluation score. Of course, he also made himself the target of public criticism.
Then, during the interview on the show, Peeta hinted to the audience that he and his eldest cousin were lovers.
But the real situation is that the eldest cousin only remembers that Peeta threw him a piece of burnt bread on a hungry, cold and rainy night. However, the enthusiastic audience is very willing to take advantage of this pair of CPs, and people's attention to this pair of tributes from District 12 continues to escalate.
After the game officially started, the tributes entered into indiscriminate killing. At first, no one had any equipment. The game designer placed the equipment in the center of the arena where everyone could see it.
The eldest cousin's mentor had warned them not to fight here. It was like a meat grinder in a slaughterhouse, with every step a corpse and a life every five steps.
So the eldest cousin just took a supply bag and immediately left the battlefield, while Peeta simply left this land of right and wrong in the opposite direction from the beginning.
In this way, the eldest cousin and Peeta, who had been getting along day and night since leaving home, were separated. She relied on her survival skills to find a place to rest, carefully counting every second of her life.
Every night, the organizers would announce the names of those who died in the war in a place where everyone could see them. Looking at the young faces, the eldest cousin felt shocked. She didn't know which night she or Peeta would appear. in the screen.
Then, the eldest cousin and Peeta met in an unexpected way. The eldest cousin is still alone, but Peeta is among the alliance of tributes from other areas. The next target of this alliance is the eldest cousin who is excellent in archery, and Peeta is their guide.
However, Peeta is much smarter than we think. The reason why he wants to dance with wolves is because only in this way can he find his elder cousin safer and faster.
With the help of the little girl in District 11, the eldest cousin saved the day and successfully counterattacked, and successfully obtained her most comfortable weapon-a bow and arrow.
Then he successfully reunited with Peeta, and the golden boy and the beautiful girl joined forces. The two comforted each other and depended on each other. Under the watchful eyes of the high-definition camera, the audience witnessed the life and death of this pair of lovers. Some people even spent a lot of money on their behalf, sponsoring healing services. Medicines, hoping they can live longer.
In order to continue the effect of the show, the organizers even changed the rules of the game and announced that as long as they are contestants from the same district, they can survive together until the end and become the winner.
But when the eldest cousin and Peeta went through many hardships and finally became the last two people alive in the arena. The organizers suddenly changed the rules again and announced that only one person could survive.
So the eldest cousin took out a highly poisonous fruit and half of it each for Peeta, planning to swallow the poisonous fruit and commit suicide in front of the whole country. Let the 74th Hunger Games be the first in history without a winner.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, the organizers could only call for a stop, acquiescing to the fact that both of them won at the same time, and the experts said, "You can't afford it."
After this battle, the eldest cousin and Peeta became heroes in their hometown and the darlings of the people across the country, but at the same time, they also became a thorn in the side of President Snow.
The story of the second movie "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" begins after the end of the 74th Hunger Games.
According to tradition, the champion will go on a speaking tour in various regions. The champions have speeches prepared by their agents and mentors.
But when they arrived in District 11, the eldest cousin and Peeta put down their speeches and made impassioned speeches.
The tributes from District 11 were kind to their eldest cousin during the competition. The eldest cousin expressed her respect affectionately. Her true feelings moved those who listened to her speech.
An old man kisses his fingertips, then raises his arms high while blowing a mockingjay sound. This simple gesture quickly spread among the crowd. For a while, the crowd was kissing their fingertips, raising their arms, and blowing whistles.
In the eyes of the president's peacekeeping forces, this was an act of rebellion. They arrested the first old man who made the move without explanation and executed him directly in front of everyone.
Thus, the resistance in District 11 began.
The lecture tour continues, and with each speech, the peacekeeping force increases its strength. Anyone who has anything to do with the mockingbird, whether it is actions, sounds, or objects, will be immediately identified as a rebel and executed.
However, the suppression from the capital did not break people's will to resist, and it even became more and more intense.
The angry president announced that the 75th Hunger Games had officially begun. This time, unlike the ordinary Hunger Games, it was an extreme challenge held every 25 years. All contestants would be selected from the previous champions of the Hunger Games.
In District 12, the only female champion is the eldest cousin. This means that the eldest cousin must participate in a more dangerous extreme challenge.
As for the male champion of District 12, there are only two people, Peeta and his mentor. In the end, it is still the desperate pair of cousins and Peeta who participate in the competition.
But the rules of the game are much more cruel than the last Hunger Games they participated in. There can only be one final winner. Obviously, the president is determined to break up the couple.
The designer of the previous competition was sentenced to death by the president just because he helped his eldest cousin and Peeta.
The designers of this year have redesigned the competition map to make the probability of survival of the contestants even slimmer.
The key to surviving longer in the Extreme Challenge is to find powerful allies.The eldest cousin chose the combination of Aquaman Fenique and the old lady
, and the Frankenstein combination of Thunder and Lightning,
and Joanna, a loner and logging girl.
The battlefield of the Extreme Challenge is divided into 12 areas like clockwork.
Every hour, the tallest towering tree in the battlefield will be struck by lightning, and then a trap in a certain area will be opened, with poisonous gas, blood rain, landslides, and wild beast attacks. Just facing these deadly traps has caused the champions to narrowly escape death.
After discovering the pattern of traps, Lei Gong came up with a clever plan to defeat the enemy. He connected the big trees with wires to attract the enemies to the minefield, and then just waited for the lightning strike on the hour to kill them all. Everyone commented, wonderful.
Although the strategy is clever, to reach the big tree, you still have to pass through a dense jungle. On the way to connect the wire, you encountered other contestants. If Joanna hadn't diverted the enemy, the eldest cousin might have stopped in the top 24.
The eldest cousin brought the wire to the location of the big tree, but her choice was not to create another trap, but to tie the wire to the arrowhead of her bow. At the exact moment the lightning struck, she released the bow and arrow. , aiming at the sky of the arena.
The entire arena is surrounded by a force field fence, and anyone who touches the fence will either die or be seriously injured.
And the eldest cousin's arrow was like a person's own way, and it penetrated the dome of the force field fence with the huge energy generated by the lightning strike, and a big hole was instantly opened in the unbreakable fence.
The shock wave caused by the explosion knocked the eldest cousin unconscious. While she was unconscious, a plane flew into the arena through the hole in the dome and took the eldest cousin away.
The third part of the movie, "The Hunger Games 3 – Mockingjay (Part 1)", starts here.
The ones who took the eldest cousin away were the rebels from District 13, which had been razed to the ground. You may not believe it, but the game designer of the Extreme Challenge is also in the lineup of the Resistance Army in District 13. It turns out that he is an undercover agent who gradually designs his eldest cousin to be around him.
The people of District 13 live underground, hiding from the eyes and ears of the capital. Under the leadership of female president Quinn, they are carefully waiting for the opportunity to return to the surface.
And the eldest cousin is the opportunity they are waiting for.
After the eldest cousin suddenly emerged in the 74th Hunger Games, she has been deeply loved by people. In the rich areas, she is popular culture, and in the slums, she is the spiritual sustenance. In the underground District 13, female President Quinn needs her eldest cousin to become the mockingbird that leads the people to resist – a symbol of resistance to the capital.
At first, the designer wanted to pose for some commercials and let the cousin boost the morale of the soldiers in front of a green screen.
But this is obviously not my cousin's usual style. The embarrassment and affectation are clearly visible in the edited video clip. People slowly began to admit that only when the eldest cousin spontaneously wanted to do something, the power in her heart could fully burst out.
Therefore, the eldest cousin must come to the front line like other ordinary soldiers.
A team of people followed the eldest cousin, recording every moment of her life and protecting her safety.
The eldest cousin's heroic appearance on the battlefield really boosted the morale of the rebels, and one area after another was occupied by the rebels. The eldest cousin was hit by a bullet on the battlefield and then miraculously survived, which brought the morale of the resistance army to its peak.
And when the resistance army led by the eldest cousin was overwhelmingly conquering one city after another, Peeta was imprisoned in the capital. President Snow forced Peeta to sit on the guest chair of the interview program to receive the interview. All his words and performances in the show are incompatible with his identity as a rebel. He asked people to lay down their weapons and stop this endless war.
Ever since, the eldest cousin and Peeta, who originally fought side by side, have now become weapons in the public opinion war between the two sides.
The eldest cousin felt distressed watching Peeta's weight loss on TV. She firmly believed that everything Peeta said and did must be helpless actions under the control of the president.
The eldest cousin's judgment is absolutely correct. Peeta has always buried his true intention deeply, protecting himself and his eldest cousin. And when by chance, the two of them were connected on TV, Peeta, regardless of his own safety, alerted the other side of the TV – the location of Area 13 has been exposed, and the bomber was flying towards Area 13 at this time. .
After hearing Peeta's words, the female president quickly ordered everyone in District 13 to enter the highest alert state and gather deeper underground to avoid the bombardment. The roar of artillery fire lasted all night, which kept the people in District 13 sleepless all night.
Fortunately, before the artillery fire stopped, there were no casualties here.
But then, everyone knows what the president is going to do to Peeta. Plans to save Peeta are imminent. A top team quietly arrived at the building where Peeta was imprisoned. The science geek Thunder from the District 13 headquarters cut off the power supply to the capital and bought them precious time.
However, President Snow hijacked the resistance's TV signal and directly shouted to his eldest cousin through the air. A series of signs indicate that Snow was well aware of the rebel rescue operations.
But surprisingly, in the end, the rescue team successfully rescued Peeta and his other imprisoned companions.
The eldest cousin was so excited that she cried tears of joy when she saw Peeta again. But there was no trace of joy on Peeta's face after a long separation. Instead, it was full of murderous intent, and he regarded his eldest cousin as his lifelong enemy.
The last part of the movie, "The Hunger Games 3 – Mockingjay (Part 2)" starts from here.
It turns out that Snow has brainwashed Peeta. Now there is only one thing in Peeta's mind, which is to kill his enemy-Katniss Everdeen, his eldest cousin, and he almost succeeded.
This is why the rescue team was able to successfully rescue Peeta, who has completely become a murder weapon in the capital.
Therefore, everyone could only let Peeta put on handcuffs and shackles, keep a certain distance from him, and apply corresponding psychological healing.
As the rebels approach the capital step by step, all the regions have become rebel positions, and it is logical to start the final decisive battle. The battlefield of the finals is the capital city.
Here, the president has deployed a tight garrison, but what's even more terrible is that murderous mechanisms and traps are placed everywhere in the city.
The eldest cousin and a special forces team, plus field reporters, began to go deep into the hinterland of the capital. Although they had high-tech instruments to help detect the location of the trap, some people still became the dead souls under the trap.
The team then moved to the sewers of the capital. There were no dense traps here, but mutant monsters were waiting for them in the sewers.
When the heroine and her party arrived at the presidential palace after going through 9981 difficulties, there was not much left in the team.
At this time, the entrance of the Presidential Palace was crowded with people seeking refuge. They heard the broadcast and thought that the Presidential Palace could provide them with shelter. But when they actually came here, what they encountered were air-dropped bombs. The eldest cousin's sister came as a nurse to provide aid to the civilians.
But one wave after another broke out, and the ruthless airdrop struck again. This time, the doctors and nurses who saved lives and injured were also wiped out.
The eldest cousin witnessed his sister being killed in the bombing. He also fainted in the explosion.
When the eldest cousin woke up again, the resistance revolution had won. The Presidential Palace where Snow was planted with white roses became the prison where Snow was placed under house arrest. Here, the eldest cousin learned the truth about the airdrop. She always thought it was the bomb dropped under Snow's order, but in fact, this cruel decision to massacre civilians was the dictate of female president Quinn, which was broadcast live on television and made everyone aware of the situation. They all thought it was Snow's evil deeds, thus strengthening the resistance's determination to revolution.
In this way, Quinn can naturally ascend the throne and become the new president of Panem.
The change of government and opposition has made people panic.Quinn suggested that Panem need to hold a Hunger Games to calm public anger and divert hatred
But Quinn's shrewd calculation still missed the legacy of his eldest cousin. At the opening ceremony of the Hunger Games, Snow's eldest cousin was supposed to be shot, but instead he turned his sword and aimed at Quinn, making Quinn become The shortest-term president in history.
In the end, the eldest cousin returned to her home in District 12, and transformed from a turbulent mockingbird to a girl next door. Together with Peeta, she retired to the fields, had children, and lived a happy but ordinary life.
Happy
