I choose to believe that this is a commentary on just what terrible things people can come to accept and even revere, rather than authorial laziness.
The ending, with Katniss and Peeta and the berries, is Katniss's attempt to fight back (and it works, but it's not without cost); and consider Peeta's talk, before the Games, about wanting to die in such a way that the Capitol would know they didn't own him.
With the understanding that authorial intent is worth exactly the electrons it's encoded with, I've read that the filmmakers were concerned that the movie not "commit the sins of the Capitol" in making the child-on-child violence a spectacle. I personally felt like they did a good job of that; indeed, I sometimes wished they'd shown more, because when blood is flying it's clearer the cost in pain and fear to all involved, and I wanted to feel it more than I did, without descending into Kill Bill-levels of ridiculous gore. That would have made the horribleness a little less handwavy, for me.
We don't get much of the aftermath for Katniss in the book or the movies -- they end too soon. I wouldn't be surprised if the subsequent books treat with that, though I haven't read them.
Katniss is a survivor, indeed, and that's the only thing that makes her in any way special. I appreciated that, personally -- I'm tired of Chosen Ones in my media, specialness by accident of birth or breeding. It doesn't make for a "well-rounded" character -- a character that low on Maslow's hierarchy doesn't have time to take up the piano or find deep emotional responses to her situation, she's too busy worrying about where her next meal is coming from -- but I identified with her enough that she worked well for me as a character.
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Date: 2012-06-07 03:43 am (UTC)I choose to believe that this is a commentary on just what terrible things people can come to accept and even revere, rather than authorial laziness.
The ending, with Katniss and Peeta and the berries, is Katniss's attempt to fight back (and it works, but it's not without cost); and consider Peeta's talk, before the Games, about wanting to die in such a way that the Capitol would know they didn't own him.
With the understanding that authorial intent is worth exactly the electrons it's encoded with, I've read that the filmmakers were concerned that the movie not "commit the sins of the Capitol" in making the child-on-child violence a spectacle. I personally felt like they did a good job of that; indeed, I sometimes wished they'd shown more, because when blood is flying it's clearer the cost in pain and fear to all involved, and I wanted to feel it more than I did, without descending into Kill Bill-levels of ridiculous gore. That would have made the horribleness a little less handwavy, for me.
We don't get much of the aftermath for Katniss in the book or the movies -- they end too soon. I wouldn't be surprised if the subsequent books treat with that, though I haven't read them.
Katniss is a survivor, indeed, and that's the only thing that makes her in any way special. I appreciated that, personally -- I'm tired of Chosen Ones in my media, specialness by accident of birth or breeding. It doesn't make for a "well-rounded" character -- a character that low on Maslow's hierarchy doesn't have time to take up the piano or find deep emotional responses to her situation, she's too busy worrying about where her next meal is coming from -- but I identified with her enough that she worked well for me as a character.
And oh man, Lenny Kravitz. :DDDDD