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rem11 · 9 months
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No because when watching the Ballad of songbirds and snakes in theatre I went Feral when “It is the things we love most that destroy us’ came out of nowhere LIKE DAMN
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hold-myhoid · 10 months
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Something I’m really liking about A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is how Sejanus keeps saying that could have been him who got reaped. He’s the only one to bring the tributes food because he sees himself in that cage. He seems to genuinely be reflecting on just how unfair and cruel this is. That contrast with Snow’s actions being entirely self serving is brilliant.
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rosered12 · 10 months
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Tbosas thought-
I can't get this idea out if my stupid head, but it keeps rattling round in there. If (and only if!) Lucy Gray was still alive by the time of the 75th games, and if she could possibly make her way back to 12/ know of what's going on with the games and Katniss (cause ain't no way she'd stick around 12 after everything that happened), what would she do?
Like would she volunteer? What chaos would that entail??? Like I keep running that scenario in my head. And the games??? Wtf would they do with that???? Who would live, die, and make aliances with her? Would Peeta volunteer for Haymich?! How would she and Mags get along? Would she sing??!?! So many questions for my stupid hypothetical.
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zorosnavigator · 7 months
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ayo-edebiri · 10 months
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) + tweets
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timelesslords · 10 months
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thinking about how the hunger games were designed to prove that without society, order, government, someone to rule, we devolve into little more than animals, and how the games themselves prove over and over again that this is not true. We see it in every single game we witness.
Katniss placing flowers around Rue's body in the arena. Thresh sparing Katniss because she was kind to Rue, even though he was making it that much harder for himself to win.
Haymitch going back for Maysilee after hearing her scream even though their alliance had been broken. Haymitch holding her as she dies the same way Katniss did Rue.
Coral's "I can't have killed them all for nothing" when she realizes she's not going home. Lamina cutting down Marcus at great personal risk. And, my favorite moment in tbosas, Reaper collecting the bodies of his fellow tributes, his peers, even the ones who tried to kill him, into a pile. Taking the weapons from their hands. Closing their eyes and crossing their arms in the best approximation of a proper burial he can manage, covering them with the Capitol flag as a makeshift shroud.
The Games bring out the worst in people, yes. But despite the extreme circumstances, despite the exterior pressure of the Capitol, despite the fact that it could mean pain and heartbreak and death, it also shows that people have an enormous capacity for goodness. That even in a situation purposefully designed to make empathy impossible, people can't help but have it anyway.
Snow looks at the Games and all he can see is what's inside himself-- this pure animalistic drive to conquer and defeat. He kills and it feels good and he thinks that everyone else must feel that way too. He doesn't realize (maybe can't realize) that he is the exception, not the rule. He cannot see outside himself, outside his own warped perspective, to realize that the fact that people do show humanity in the games proves his entire worldview wrong.
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xplore-the-unknwn · 10 months
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Coriolanus Snow in TBOSAS a summary:
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edelwoodsouls · 10 months
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thinking about the fact that they made a point to tell us that there are no cameras in the vents. like- lucy gray is a performer, she is always performing, it is her calling and her survival mechanism and when we meet her she literally cannot stop performing because she is always on camera or being perceived- by coriolanus, by the capital, by her fellow tributes and the folks back at 12. but for that one, awful moment, in the vents, watching dill drink the poisoned water she laid as a trap- for that one moment in the whole entire movie, lucy gray isn’t being observed. that is the only moment in the entire movie she isn’t performing for someone else, and she uses it to grieve
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Love love love the implication that Lucy Gray came back to haunt Coriolanus Snow in his last years of life, through her mockingjays, her songs, and her District, particularly Peeta.
I also can’t get out of my head the idea of an 80 something year old Snow absolutely haunted by the fact that every time Katniss Everdeen opens her mouth, Sejanus’ voice comes out.
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mockingjaysongbird · 10 months
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danyllura · 10 months
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The capitol callously watching and commentating on the hunger games as defenceless children are subjected to horror and death but standing up and gasping in horror at Reaper ripping down the flag. Reaper laying the bodies of the murdered children to rest and looking to the camera asking for acknowledgment of their suffering only to be cut off and for the only reaction of horror mustered from the capitol citizens coming from the news of the death of one of their own. The Hunger Games will never not successfully act as a horrifying mirror to the atrocities in our world.
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filmgifs · 10 months
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (2023) dir. Francis Lawrence
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tending-the-hearth · 10 months
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coriolanus saying "is this real" to lucy gray about their feelings for each other because he needs to know that he's doing this for something and won't be wasting his time aka doing it for selfish reasons to make sure he's benefitting vs. peeta saying "real or not real" to katniss about their feelings because they're both equally traumatized and need the reassurance but their love isn't transactional and he's not asking for himself he's asking for both of them, so that they're both grounded in each other
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aqukana · 10 months
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the part where they cut off the games to broadcast the president's son died with "an important life was taken today" SECONDS AFTER watching a pile of dead district children was chilling
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ayo-edebiri · 10 months
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) + text posts
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agir1ukn0w · 10 months
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I’m sorry but if this paragraph doesn’t fuck you up Idk what will:
“Coriolanus felt his anxieties melt away. Full of fresh food, shaded by the trees, Lucy Gray singing softly beside him, he began to appreciate nature. It really was beautiful out here. The crystal clean air. The lush colors. He felt so relaxed and free. What if this was his life: rising whenever, catching his food for the day, and hanging out with Lucy Gray by the lake? Who needed wealth and success and power when they had love? Didn’t it conquer all?
- The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins (pg. 438)
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