20 April 2012

The Hunger Games (Gary Ross 2012)

I thought this was terrific. It handles the appalling moral ambiguities very well. There's a moment when we're being drawn into the romance of young love and the camera draws back to show that the people who are ruthlessly exploiting these young people for their own entertainment are just as dewy eyed as we are. I know Rear Window etc turn on the audience, but time I felt it happening, as opposed to recognising it in a cerebral kind of way.

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