gerald.parson
Troubadour
Organizing a rebellion is not an easy thing to do. Communication is suppressed. The first person to poke their head up gets it blown off. The last district to rebel was bombed off the map and the earth salted. People under that sort of repression are not going to fight back until they are at the point where they are ready to die, since many of them surely will.
I'm not really sure what your point is. I agree that organizing a rebellion, or at least an organized rebellion, is not an easy task given certain circumstances, I just don't see, or agree, that the circumstances in the movie proved that to be the case. There are two districts that train their children ( future combatants ) that in itself throws a wrench in the "All mighty oppressive tyrannical government". Again, as stated above, when Rue was killed, her district rioted. Was it organized? No. Was it effective? Who the hell knows. Point is 75 years of Hunger Games, nearly 2,000 combatants, I find it hard to believe this would only be the only occasion people reacted as such. You know what, it's not that important. It is a Y.A. book and was written and created as such. Not my cup of tea. No big deal. It is full of wholes but that doesn't matter, its selling point is a "strong female character", and that's cool. Keep in mind my only perspective is that of what I saw in the film, I have not read the books and have no intention of doing so. But I give the movie over all a D+ or C-