The Hunger Games

These Things I Have Seen

StarringJennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Woody Harrelson
Directed byGary Ross
Year: 2012
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Every now and then, I will find it necessary to break protocol to tend to my extremely large Netflix queue. This is one of those times. 

There’s the old standard that Literature teachers the world-over use in their classes: the book is always better than the movie. Being someone old enough to have made a good amount of mistakes it is hard for me to speak in such absolutes; I find it trite and, most of the time, easy to debunk. However, sometimes you do find the exception that proves the rule but, for the most part, the statements are usually weak and conflict becomes inevitable because it is a completely subjective view of the piece.

When the film was announced I sought out a synopsis of Suzanne Collins‘ novel

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