#dimitri abold

[imriel]

- What's the matter, pretty boy? You in the wrong cage? - No. This cage is delightful.

[phoenixes-and-wizards]

in my reaper brainrot era because how on earth do you not stan a boy who was so defiant to the end that even as he died, he never begged or pleaded or cried, just calmly accepted his fate, because he was never going to give them the satisfaction of putting on the show they wanted, would never allow himself to be a pawn in any of their games, because fuck that and fuck them and fuck anyone who had anything to do with it

[ghost-nunya]

some doodles of reaper ash bc he didn't let the games change him, and bc him and dill parallel katniss and rue so much it hurts

i'm so thankful the movies let him die with so much dignity

[wornoutspines]

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | Special Feature

In case you missed it an amazing special feature on #TheHungerGames prequel was released, and it makes me as excited to see The Ballad of Songbirds and Snake as I was for Catching Fire back in the day.

Writer: Michael Arndt and Michael Lesslie (Screenplay), Suzanne Collins (Novel) Director: Francis Lawrence Stars: Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman. The movie premieres November 17th If you’re interested in the source material, here’s my review of it, click on the image below:

[vee-nyx]

what’s up with all this snow x reader bullshit IM TRYNA SEE THEM REAPER X READER FICS

[sansakenobi]

THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES (2023) dir. Francis Lawrence DIMITRI ABOLD AS REAPER ASH He's torn down the flag.

[m4tthewmurd0ck]

THE MORNING SKY

— (Young) Coriolanus Snow x Fem!Reader

CHAPTER ── 0 [ PREFACE + ADDITIONAL CAST ]

Hello! I promise next chapter will be… an actual chapter hshdnsdj buuut since THG / TBOSAS is obviously pretty popular I just want to clarify a few things before the story begins, as well as introduce some faces that’ll be featured in this story! Everything will be below the cut :)

only 3 people to introduce, your fellow district tribute and familiar faces. all characters from the film will just be played by their respective actors.

Harry Gilby as Archer [ AKA your fellow district 12 tribute ]

Dimitri Abold as Reaper (i need his character ok just pretend he’s in the 11th games not 10th)

Josh Rivera as Sejanus Plinth. (as i said self-indulgent ok he’s alive and coryo didn’t betray him asdf;asfhg)

THINGS TO NOTE BEFORE THE STORY ~

This is a self indulgent fic because I need to see Coriolanus in a world where he doesn’t turn completely evil hahdjzndfj. so don’t come into this expecting him to be exactly as he is in the film and book

There was nothing romantic between him and Lucy Gray. We’ll get into that in the first chapter when I explain how soulmates work

Before all of this, you knew Lucy Gray and even considered each other friends. This is something else that’ll be eventually touched on

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[itskeisy]

New Stills of Mackenzie Lansing, Luna Steeples, Dimitri Abold and Irene Böhm as Coral, Dill, Reaper and Lamina in ‘THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES.’

[phoenixes-and-wizards]

there’s just something about reaper’s big scene that gets me every time. like this boy—this actual child—who has been forced to fight to the death and torn away from practically everything he knows, just for shits and giggles, he actually takes the time to throw the other tributes’ weapons away, never mind that he’d be fully exposed to the career pack while doing so, cleans them up as best as he can, and basically tries to make sure that they look like they’re just sleeping. and then him raging at the cameras? OH FUCK YES why wouldn’t he? he’s hungry and tired and cold and hurting all over and for what? this farce of a government?? the very people that swore to serve and protect them, all of them, but instead, it’s up to a teenage boy to give his fellow tributes the final rites they deserve?? and not just that. don’t even get me started on the fact that every single person in that room reacted to the flag being ripped down, but not the actual reason he had to do it in the first place. panem et circenses indeed.

[tepkunset]

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Film Review

(This review contains spoilers!)

I consider The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes book to be a masterpiece that sets a standard of what YA Fiction can be; something that any young adult upwards can enjoy. Suzanne Collins does such an amazing job of pulling you into the world and characters she’s created, and doesn’t shy away from the truly grotesque things that make a dystopia feel impactful. I am glad to say that, for the most part, this film lives up to that standard.

Before anything else, I do want to get a few minor complaints out of the way. Keep in mind they did not ruin the film for me, but I feel they are worthy of pointing out.

Sejanus Plinth is my favourite character in the book, and while for the most part he is very accurate, there is one thing that really disappointed me: In the book, Sejanus knew damn well what he was doing with the rebels; he deliberately supplied them with weapons. But in the film, he has the line “I didn’t know there would be guns”, discovering for the first time that they used his money to arm themselves. This really feels like de-clawing his character to me.

It would’ve been nice to have at least a brief mention that Barb Azure is gay. I can understand why they had to cut out Pluribus Bell for time, but because the also cut him out, that means there’s no mention at all of the book’s queer characters in the film.

The relationship between Coriolanus and Sejanus has a much more bitter feeling in the film than in the book, and after sleeping on it, I think I know why: Because we don’t get to hear Coriolanus’s thoughts in the film, the film I think overcompensates by making him much more verbal about his snobbery towards Sejanus. Subsequently, it’s harder to believe why Sejanus sees Coriolanus as his best friend.

Okay now, onto the praises!

The story is extremely loyal to the book. In fact, there is a lot of dialogue that is ripped right of the page, and it all made me really happy to hear. I am especially glad they kept in this pinnacle Lucy Gray quote: “I think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.” Because this, of course, directly enforces the core message I took from the book: Good and evil is a choice. The choices that Coriolanus made are his to hold responsibility to, and as much as you can point at Dr. Gaul for introducing him to the path he takes, ultimately, he chose to walk it. Most of the changes were understandable cuts for time without any sacrifices being too detrimental. The things they added were all, in my opinion, enhancements to the story by expanding on what only happens on the peripheral of Coriolanus’s point of view in the book. For example, the things he only watches on screen in the arena are delved further into by shifting to Lucy Gray directly a few times. They also added a bit to Coral’s character at her time of death, which I liked because it made her out to be less of a cardboard antagonist and instead reminded the audience that she, too, is a victim of the system.

All the actors did a phenomenal job, from both the main and supporting cast. Tom Blyth does a great job at showing Coriolanus Snow’s progression down the path of a young villain in the making. Rachel Zegler does a great job at capturing Lucy Gray’s charm and free spirit. Josh Andrés Rivera does a great job at selling the weight Sejanus carries around with him, and has some of the best line deliveries in the film in my opinion. (My favourite being “I’m so blameless I’m choking”.) And I especially have praise for Viola Davis as Dr. Volumnia Gaul, who does an amazing job at bringing the unhinged character from the book onto the screen. She’s properly intimidating and strange at the same time. Dimitri Abold as Reaper was also a scene-stealer, in that he captures what I absorbed from the book really well; the western societal expectation that a young Black man is a danger that is then turned on its head. Not only does he not kill a single person, he has a very emotional moment of mourning for the tributes, collecting their bodies as he does in the book, and covering them with the Panem flag – something that outrages the audience more than the actual death of the children.

The scenery is very loyal to the descriptions provided in the book; I swear they stole it straight from my own personal imagination while reading.

The music… I don’t even know how to put to words my satisfaction in how the film adapts the music written out in the book, into an actual song. My personal favourite is “Nothing You Can Take From Me”. Rachel Zegler has a great voice, for sure.

The costume design is great. The Capitol’s eccentricities we know from the core trilogy haven’t evolved yet, but there’s still a certain flavour carried with characters like Tigris and Dr. Gaul for example, that tell a story of where the fashion will eventually end up. On the other hand, we see that things haven’t changed very much for District Twelve at all, which showcases how society’s change is stilted in poverty.

The colour palette of the film is mostly just a little desaturated, with one exception: whenever Lucy Gray takes Coriolanus outside of District Twelve. The meadow, the lake, and the forest are all noticeably more colourful, which I interpreted as representing the freedom these locations offer to the characters.

All in all, I think the film was fantastic. It is easily the most loyal Hunger Games adaptation, and I don’t think that’s coincidental in its quality.

[incorrect-tbosas]

Have you seen the prequel movie? If yes🌹>>>

A. In your opinion, please rate TBOSAS movie with 1-10 scale.

(1 = I hate it, 10 = I love it.)

Things that you like :

Things that you don't like :

B. For people who also read the novel.

Your opinions about the difference between the book and the movie :

Thank you 🎼

@curiousnonny

Yes I have!!

A. Okay, I will give it a solid 9. The only reason it isn't a 10 is because I wish there was more of it and there are some more scenes I wanted to see. Other than that, pretty much a perfect book-to-screen adaptation!

Things I Liked:

The cast! Pretty much perfect casting all around. Tom, Rachel and Josh absolutely ate up their roles, and I'm gonna be disappointed if I don't see Oscar nominations for those three. But I'm biased 😉

Also Viola, Hunter and Peter!!

Jason Schwartzmann was excellent as Lucky Flickerman. His comedic timing? Perfect.

THE TRIBUTES!!! Every single one of them was portrayed so well, and big ups to Dimitri Abold and Irene Boehm for their portrayals of Reaper and Lamina respectively. Mackenzie Lansing as Coral was so so good, the way she portrayed Coral's depth and nuance as a character was excellent.

Nick Benson and Sofia Sanchez broke my hearts as Jessup and Wovey.

The score! James Newton Howard knows how to craft a narrative using just music, and the parallels by using elements from prior pieces of the score was just *chef's kiss*. Yuja Wang's solos are so beautiful!! "Victor" in particular is simply perfect.

THAT twist with Felix Ravinstill. Frankly, excellent choice and very very topical.

I think all of us could do with taking some very important lessons away from this movie.

Things I Didn't Like:

Lack of mentor content. I wish we saw more of them!

Lack of snowbaird content. And not just as a shipper, but also as a narrative device. Their relationship is the crux of acts II and III, and I feel like we could've used all of it to really drive home the scale of Coriolanus' change and betrayal.

They really should have kept the 4-hour long cut. Francis Lawrence release the 4 hour cut!! I want that extra hour of footage now!!

B. Okay, as far as differences go, I didn't mind them! I actually really liked some of the switches, as I feel like it compensated for the lack of Coriolanus' internal monologue.

I do feel like some things were sacrificed for time (like the depth of Coriolanus and Lucy Gray's relationship, Coriolanus' relationship with Sejanus and the Plinths) but Tom and Rachel made up for that with their stellar acting, and Josh Andres Rivera KILLED IT as Sejanus. Whatever I didn't see explicitly, Josh made up for it with his acting choices.

[duinlam]

“No right to take away their life and freedom. Those are things everyone is born with, and they’re not yours for the taking.”

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

- Suzanne Collins -

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023).

Directed by Francis Lawrence.

Dimitri Abold

[wornoutspines]

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (Movie Review) | Unveiling Panem's Dark Past -A Cinematic Ballad of Ambition and Rebellion

#TheHungerGames The #BalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes - A Captivating Dive into Panem's Origins 🐍🎶 From nuanced character exploration to stunning visuals, this prequel stays true to the source material. A psychological journey that enriches the saga. #Review

I still remember when the book this movie is based on came out, it wasn’t the prequel story I was interested in. Yet, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins still managed to grab enough of my attention at the time, even if I now barely remember the book but that’s ok. As for this adaptation, Francis Lawrence, who delivered excellent entries in this saga is back behind the camera.…

[etcemais]

A Lionsgate liberoum novos pôsteres de A Cantiga dos Pássaros e das Serpentes.

Em entrevista, o diretor Francis Lawrence comentou que gostaria de fazer mais derivados de Jogos Vorazes se a autora, Suzanne Collins, concordasse.

“Se a Suzanne tiver alguma outra ideia que ela sinta que faz parte do mundo de Panem, seja com novos personagens ou velhos conhecidos, como Finnick, Haymitch ou sei lá, eu estaria muito interessado em me envolver”, disse o diretor.

O filme é baseados no livro de mesmo nome e se passa 64 anos antes dos eventos com Katniss, e acompanha o jovem Coriolanus Snow. Ele é a última esperança de sua família, que caiu em desgraça na Capital após uma guerra. Com isso, Snow relutantemente aceita se tornar mentor de Lucy Gray Baird, uma tributo do Distrito 12. E, quando ela consegue conquistar Panem, ele vê a oportunidade ambos mudarem os seus destinos.

O elenco conta com Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schaefer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman, Mackenzie Lansing, Ashley Liao, Irene Boehm, Cooper Dillon, Luna Kuse, Kjell Brutscheidt, Dimitri Abold, Athena Strates, Dakota Shapiro, George Somner e Vaughan Reilly.

O filme estreia no dia 16 de novembro.

[cassipedia]

Review of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)

Hey, Cassipedia, what're you watching?

Not that long ago, I started watching the film The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, which is based on the novel of the same name. It is a prequel to the first The Hunger Games story, meant to show the origin of the villain of the trilogy, Coriolanus Snow during a time when the titular Hunger Games were fairly new and he must sponsor a contestant to help her survive the games, all the while he strives to reclaim the status and fortune that his family had lost. Snow finds himself at odds between his society’s cruel, authoritarian entertainment system and finding a humanizing connection with the contestant that he is meant to detest.

Do you recommend watching it?

I think this film is fine on its own, but it had not met the expectations I had for it. What the movie did accomplish in terms of its story, challenging questions and characters I personally felt could be better seen in other films. I don’t think this is a movie to avoid if you are interested, but, if you have limited free time, then there are other movies that I would recommend instead.

What's the story like?

This is meant to be a story about individuals being forced into horrible situations and attempting to find common ground, of how terrible humans can be to one another and exploring the reasons why, all the while showing the origins of the main villain of The Hunger Games trilogy. The story focuses on Coriolanus Snow, a young man who came from a rich family but has fallen onto hard times due to his father getting murdered by rebels and thus losing their fortune. He seeks to excel in his studies so that he may restore his family’s name and prestige and ensure a comfortable life for his grandmother and cousin. As a result, Snow is assigned to sponsor a contestant named Lucy Gray Baird, who comes from a group of traveling musicians that were forced to settle in District 12, and his goal is to keep her alive. Snow attempts to accomplish this by using her musical talents to increase her popularity and also discreetly cheat in the Games. Some of the ways that he cheats resulted in the death of an innocent other contestant while other methods save Lucy’s life but result in Snow being forced to work as a lowly Peacekeeper in District 12. The main villain of this story is Dr. Volumnia Gaul, a woman who oversees the Games and appears to be using the excuse of enforcing totalitarian law and order to punish and torment the Districts in cruel and unusual ways. She is the main force that Snow and Lucy are technically up against, as she perpetuates the violence of the Games. The core of the story is meant to be Snow, struggling against fulfilling the help-oneself mentality that his society is built on while wrestling over the empathetic viewpoints of his cousin and his best friend, and at the same time falling in love with the contestant he is only supposed to be keeping alive for his own gain. With this being a prequel film all about a villain, there is an understanding that Snow is going to lose this battle of morality by the end of the movie, and so the film’s goal is to then reveal the depths behind the reasons why he becomes the villain that he does.

How are the actors and actresses?

Before I give my overall thoughts on the actors and actresses, I would like to first commend the actor whom I believe had the best scene from what I saw of the film. This would be Dimitri Abold portraying Reaper Ash from District 11. The scene I’m referring to is from in the middle of the movie, during the Hungers Games tournament. The character Reaper prior to this point was shown to be very threatening, having been rumored to gotten away with killing a Peacekeeper enforcer and making no secret of wanting to vengefully hurt Snow and his fellow Capitol residents. But then we see Reaper attempting to protect one of the other contestants, a sickly girl named Dill, even to the point of passing up on killing other Tributes. But she ends up dying accidentally due to water that had secretly been poisoned. Rather than going on a murderous rampage as I had expected, Reaper started gathering the bodies of the other contestants, enemy and ally alike. He lined them up in the center of the arena, all neatly positioned, then he pulled down one of the large, garish banners of the Capitol, the symbol of the oppressors that put them into these Games in the first place. He draped the flag over the bodies, giving them an honorable send off as you would for brave soldiers. Once he was finished, Reaper looked directly at the camera that the Capitol and all its residents spectated from. It was this that pushed Dr. Gaul to demand the release of her instant-killing, rainbow snakes, forgoing the Games to attempt to kill all of the contestants. But the implications of this are clear: No matter how many Hunger Games, how much oppression and ways of devaluing human life that the Capitol makes, it will never, ever snuff out the fighting spirit of those seeking freedom. It is a powerful moment that still sticks with me. It reminds me of why I enjoyed The Hunger Games story.

The scene, however, is only less than ten minutes out of the entire film. It also, has very little to do with the main characters of the film. Technically, Snow and Lucy’s contribution to that scene was the death of the innocent contestant, as Snow had snuck the poison into the arena so Lucy could cheat and survive, but when Lucy attempted to use it on the dangerous contestants, Dill drank it instead. Afterwards, when Dr. Gual releases her snakes, Reaper is consumed by the snakes but he remains glaring at the Capitol’s camera down to his final moments. Lucy is the only one that survives because Snow had secretly snuck into Dr. Gual’s lab and tampered with the snakes. Lucy technically won the Game, but it was Reaper that won the real battle. In context, it makes sense for this to be set up in this way, as it is a heroic moment in technically a villain’s movie. But I admit to having trouble recalling if Snow and Lucy showed significant reactions to Reaper’s act of defiance, which I feel was a missed opportunity to further tie the scene into the movie’s overall narrative.

Rachel Zegler portrayed Lucy Gray Baird, and I think she was a good actress, as I could always tell when Lucy was afraid or desperate, and her singing voice was powerful, so I think my problem with being able to connect with Lucy comes from how the film presented Lucy to me. At the start, we see Lucy is an outsider with no one there to help her, as she is on bad terms with the mayor’s daughter due to Lucy’s ex-boyfriend cheating on her, and Lucy is introduced to us by sneaking a snake into the girl’s dress and she responds to be called as tribute by singing a song related to rebellion. She is shown throughout the movie to care for others and she even saves Snow from a fatal injury. I was hoping that the movie would show me more of who she is and where she comes from, but, for most of the movie, Lucy shares very little about herself, aside from the fact that she comes from a group of traveling musicians. I don’t recall the names of any of her family members or fellow musicians. Lucy gets close to Snow over the course of the film and learns to trust him, but, without her driving backstory, I felt like her interactions leaned more towards simply trying to survive rather than forming a deep connection. I felt like I never got to see what it was that Lucy was truly willing to fight and die for, and I would’ve liked to see a clearer moment of her willingness to give her life for something that was her decision. After the fact of watching the movie, I learned through a ScreenRant article that apparently Lucy Gray Baird had a much more reduced role in the movie than she did in the book, with much of her backstory and other scenes being cut. Though I haven’t read the book, I can’t help wondering if part of my feelings of dissatisfaction could be because the gaps that those removed scenes left behind were not as cleanly patched up as it could have been.

Much of what I explained with Lucy above, I think may be applicable for Snow’s character as well, whom was portrayed by Tom Blyth. As with before, I do believe the actors were doing their upmost, and I think they could convey emotions very well. I could see Snow’s determination to pull his family out of poverty by his own hard work and his desperation to win by any means necessary. But I found myself also having trouble with connecting with Snow. There was much of his backstory that felt like it was simply missing. I wanted to see what it was that he once had, so I could better understand why he was fighting so hard. Perhaps that is part of the point, not showing his past wealth because it is evidenced by the current wealth of others, but I felt like I was missing part of his journey, an important part; the start. In a sense, that is what I wanted from a prequel. The story behind his character is technically solid, showing how he is completely a product of a society that is built around de-humanizing a lower class and winning by any means necessary, but I had yet to see why I needed to sit down and watch this movie. With how the film portrayed Snow to me, all I saw was a young man surviving in the only way his cruel world had taught him. I had not read the book The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes but I found myself starting to predict who was going to die, who he was going to betray and so on. It was because of this, I chose to leave my seat in the theater around the point when Snow became a Peacekeeper and I realized he was going to betray his colleague Sejanus Plinth, whom he had been at moral odds with since the start of the movie. It was expected that Snow was going to betray him and I researched after the fact that Snow does in indeed out his friend as a rebel and lets him be executed for treason. It is a solid tragedy and the story is consistent, but I feel the lack of engagement and moments of characters’ histories started to pull down the movie’s good qualities.

 Among the other cast, they are useful parts of the story, but many come and go very quickly, playing their part and the story moves on. The reason that Reaper stuck out to me among the supporting cast, and out of the entire film, was because Reaper did something unexpected. He acted against the expectation of his cruel world. That is what brought out such a strong reaction from Gaul. That is what I was hoping to get a moment of from perhaps Lucy or Snow. There was even a moment where I wondered why Casca Highbottom, the dean of Snow’s academy hated Snow so much. He claimed he hated Snow’s father, whom is a faceless character we never meet in the movie. I waited for the movie to show me why Casca hated Snow’s father, but it did not. As a result, the crime that Casca held against Snow’s father remained invisible in my mind, just as Snow’s father and Snow himself. There was a lot of potential in this cast, whom delivered a suitable performance, but I believe they could have been allowed to go a step farther to really connect with the audience.

What does the movie look like?

There are only two primary colors used in this movie; gray of imposing concrete buildings and ashes, and bronze from gaudy structures and muted sunsets. It is fitting for the dystopian setting and was very detailed, as well as would have been great on posters or to be framed. The only drawback was what seemed to be not as much visual variety as it was difficult for me to distinguish between when a scene was outside of Snow’s school versus inside the arena or even in the impoverished Distinct 12. I faintly remember green trees and grass when Snow reunited with Lucy in Distinct 12, which was visually a nice touch of a fresh breath of air, like freedom from the monotonous colors of the rest of the movie. However, I think the moment was a bit too brief and there weren’t many set pieces that stuck out in my mind aside from the tank of rainbow snakes in Dr. Gaul’s lab. Even the arena of the titular Games felt oddly empty in its appearance, as it was another detailed, yet grey-and-bronze set piece, much like many other places in the movie.

Anything notable about the music?

I admit that I do not recall much of the soundtrack, though I think there may have been motif callbacks to the first Hunger Games film, but I may be incorrect with that. There was more emphasis on music due to the character Lucy using her musical talents as a means to endear herself to her audience. It had a kind of folk country style, and many of her songs were catchy. Although, I think the music was a bit similar to the visuals in being polished, but each song was difficult to distinguish from the other and weren’t quite personable enough to stay in my head.

If it's a prequel, should I watch or read anything beforehand?

I’d like to not I had not read the book Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and so I can’t personally speak to if it would or wouldn’t be recommended for someone who has. What I have read is the first two Hunger Games novels and watched the first Hunger Games film. Much of my pain points with this movie could largely be due to my biases of how I enjoyed those initial books and movies. I doubtlessly compared Snow and Lucy to Katniss, because I remembered how I understood everything I needed to know about Katniss from the moment that she stated ‘I volunteer as tribute’ and I wanted to follow her to see how far she was going to go to commit to that, what lengths she would take to protect her sister. I doubtlessly compared the colors of this film to The Hunger Games because I remember the glassy, ethereal buildings of the Capitol and their manufactured glory and how they dueled with the lush, vibrant green forests, which were both fruitful yet could be full of lurking danger. Perhaps because of these biases, I might consider recommended that those whom are not familiar with The Hunger Games might enjoy it more.

Who would like this movie most?

Considering the significant changes between the book and the movie, I am uncertain if one who is a fan of the books would then enjoy this film. However, for someone who is not watching this film because they watch to watch something related to The Hunger Games, and perhaps they want to watch a movie of a dystopian sci-fi that provides thought-provoking questions about our humanity and the consequences of manipulation, then I would first recommend the film Ender’s Game. If one is looking for a film that displays terrible yet compelling violence, then I would first recommend most war films, but especially those of 1917 and Hacksaw Ridge. These are examples of characters who are not only surviving, but they are trying to survive for their ideals, for others, for the memory of something important.

Where can I watch it?

The film is available in theaters as of writing this. It is also available in multiple online services from Youtube, Google Play Movies, Vudu, Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video. I had a feeling this might also be one of those movies that ends up in the movie selection on airplanes.

Final thoughts?

I whole-heartedly admit that there may be much of this story in which I am missing the point. As mentioned above, I got introduced to The Hunger Games through the first book and film, so all I knew was Katniss, and a film about her villain would naturally be a very different experience. Even still, when setting those expectations aside, I still feel that there was more the movie could have done to engage me through its characters and their backstories, which could have then given more weight to the hard questions that the movie presented. This is a well-polished film, but it is not one that I would personally consider a must-see.