Because I saw the prequel, I got the idea of watching the Hunger Games again, so I repainted it. The comparison of the prequels makes the trilogy look even better. The first one is my personal favorite.
The first film is very wonderful and smooth in the creation of the dramatic world, the characterization of characters, the setting of character relationships and story contradictions, and the advancement of the plot.
The characterization is sophisticated and clever. In the portrayal of characters in the film, there are not only conflicts in the spiritual level of one’s inner heart on good and evil, life freedom, life hope, but also choices and conflicts in the face of family affection, friendship, and love, as well as social contradictions and conflicts between one and the whole living area, the congressional district, and other districts. The characters in the film and television are shaped from different levels and depth, and life is injected into the characters.
For example, Katniss, the heroine played by Jennifer Lawrence, has a strong core stability in character image and personality characteristics, but also has great growth and multi-faceted. The plot follows Katniss’s growth and emotional development.
At the beginning of the film, the heroine is an image that looks wild and cold on the outside, but hot inside, love and hate clearly. This is also her stable character undertone. And the subsequent development of the story continues to enrich her character image. Until the climax of the film, she becomes a potential fighter who despises authority, hates killing, longs for the freedom of life, and can overcome difficulties with wisdom even if she is afraid.
In fact, not only the female lead, the male lead, and a variety of different roles were well shaped in the first film, coupled with the overall performance of the actors, so that most of the characters in the whole film are impressive.
In this process, the film arranges the plot and characters around different stages of the heroine’s self-awakening, growth, choice and struggle, and focuses on shaping and presenting different roles at different stages.
The character development is very charming and uses a few simple scenes to get the audience to empathize quickly. Take the heroine, for example, the opening scene let many viewers quickly love the heroine: a socially awkward arrow in order to save her sister, even if it is a life and death trap also voluntarily go.
In addition, the film did not give the heroine a special halo bonus, in addition to being a god arrow, she is more like every ordinary person, but also like the audience in front of the screen.
But those choices and actions made by the heroine, as well as the bravery and wisdom of the heroine in extreme danger are difficult for most people (including the audience in front of the screen) to do, in the face of such a beautiful, brave, warm, strong and full of good thoughts of the girl, the audience can not love. These shapes and foreshadowing also make it logical that the heroine is popular in the congressional district.
The drama world frame constructed by the film is relatively complete, the character images are relatively full, and the relationship between the characters is also very clear, which lays a solid foundation for the subsequent films.
In The Hunger Games, the film constructs the corresponding rules of operation and the attributes of people in the world in which the characters live. Different districts (including the Congressional District), each district has its own way of life and survival situation.
One of the smartest things about the film is how the tribute to each district (with the exception of the Congressional District) is shown in its debut and in the arena. It not only presents the role characteristics of the tributes, but also presents some common characteristics of their respective districts, which can be described as multiple birds with one stone.
The film uses a very simple narrative logic and contradictory Settings to connect the richest storyline. The film uses sequential narrative logic, interspersed with a small amount of flashback plots, so that the story rhythm and main line contradictions of the whole film are clear and clear, and it is very easy to let the audience into the play and not easy to leave the play. The main story contradiction of the film is also very clear, that is, the heroine who replaces her sister as the tribute must survive the cruel game of survival until the end to see her sister again.
On the whole, the maturity and brilliance of the first part also laid a good foundation for the problems of the second and third parts. Therefore, even if the second and third films are not amazing, they can still quickly immerse themselves in the world of killing games under the shadow of dictatorship. In fact, the second and third films did play well.
