Just finished watching Catching Fire, the second of the four films in the “Hunger Games” trilogy (Don’t ask). The series gets much more compelling as it goes along. In this installment, the country grows increasingly discontented with the idea of having young people kill each other in a lethal reality-TV show after 75 years, and people veer toward violent revolution.
Having inhaled the three books a couple of years ago, I’m impressed at how well the first two have been adopted to the screen, this second one better than the first.
I am a big fan of dystopian fiction – Nineteen Eighty-Four, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, and any number of other great books and films – and you know what theme they have in common?
A government that believes it knows better than the rest of us. Government officials who believe they are made of superior stuff than the rest of us. A government designed to shepherd the lives of the rest of us.
No matter how well intentioned, the more government tries to run our lives the more it messes our lives up – and the more well intentioned, it seems, the more terrifying the result.
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