Today I want to share with you the film series adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name, "The Hunger Games".
There is a legend in Homer's Epic that Minos, the king of Crete, was the son of Zeus and Europa, and his wife, with the intervention of poseidon the sea king, gave birth to a half-man, half-cow monster with a bull- Minotauros, and Minoans built a labyrinth for the Athenians in order to imprison Minotaurus, the famous Minoan labyrinth.
Later, the Athenians killed one of Minos' sons, and in revenge, Minos pleaded with his father Zeus for help to bring plague to Athens, and in order to stop the epidemic, the Athenians had to send 7 pairs of virgin boys and girls every year to worship the half-man, half-cow monster Minotaurus.
When Athens paid tribute for the third time, the prince Theseus volunteered to be a victim in order to enter the palace to kill the monster and eliminate the harm to the people. Eventually, Theseus found Minotaurs in the depths of the labyrinth and killed Minotaurs, saving Athens.
Many people don't know, in fact, the inspiration for "The Hunger Games" comes from the above legend, and many people don't know what "The Hunger Games" is about.
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The biggest villain of the movie is undoubtedly the male president Snow, but the eldest cousin shot an arrow to kill the female president Quinn.
Big Cousin's mentor, Hamick, finally told her before she took part in the Extreme Challenge: "Katniss, when you enter the arena, remember who is your real enemy";
Coincidentally, The Sea King Finnick said the same thing to his eldest cousin.
So, who is the real enemy?
The real world is so changeable, people's sensory functions as the first channel to contact foreign objects, is always too easy to sway people's thoughts, in the arena of the Shihui country, the twenty-four "tributes" of the twelve districts regard each other as their greatest enemies, killing all of them can survive to the end.
However, what can a victory in a competition change, except for the winner himself and stealing his life, the world is still so crazy, nothing has changed.
The capital let the winner speak around and preach her heroic deeds.
In fact, it is preaching that the madness of this world cannot be changed at all. And every Hunger Games champion is a living testament to this madness.
So, there is an extreme challenge, where the champion and the champion are the champions. This once again declares to the people that no one should try to control their own destiny, even if it is the former champion of the Chosen Son, only needs a paper order from the capital, and still faces a stormy fate.
Obviously, as long as the power of the capital is not extinguished, this sick game will never end.
Then we remember the significance of the hunger games, when the various administrative regions rose up and pointed the finger at the power of the capital. But the uprising was eventually suppressed by the capital, and all those involved in the uprising were also defined as traitors and thieves.
To commemorate the suppression of the rebellion, the Hunger Games are held every year in the donor countries.
Snow told the game designers why not catch 24 men and women out each year and then kill them while the Hunger Games had to be held.
Because, hope, is the only thing more powerful than fear;
Hope! It is the only thing stronger than fear.
The right amount of hope is specifically good influence, but excessive hope is very dangerous.
A little hope is effective.
A lot of hope is dangerous.
Therefore, the small hope that can be controlled is the most ideal
A spark is fine, as long as it’s contained.
Killing 24 people directly can only cause fear to people, but the Hunger Games can give people hope in addition to fear.
A country that is purely fearful has no future for the rulers, and if there is no hope, then revolt will surely follow.
But there's just a little bit of hope, even if it's just a 1 in 24 chance. Hope will give people the motivation to fight hard, and the country will be able to breathe life. Chen Sheng Wu Guang is the best proof.
But hope can't be too big, too big will become a threat to the current system, like the name of the second part of the Hunger Games, the spark can burn.
So the Hunger Games go round and round every year, producing a winner at the end each time, and the game designer listened to Snow and understood the relationship between hope and fear, so never allow a game without survivors. That's why he would eventually agree to a joint win for Big Cousin and Pita.
But we are well aware that the real winner in the end is actually the beneficiary country. Because snow wants the madness continues.
For the beneficiary country, if it wants to be a winner forever, it is enough to give people hope and control people's hopes. The Hunger Games are the container for this calculation.
However, the emergence of the big cousin broke the calculation of the capital, and the threshold of the big cousin as a variable was beyond the fault tolerance range of the capital's elaborate fear formula.
The eldest cousin, He DeHe, can turn things around under the obscene power of the capital. Not because of her archery, not because of her looks. It was because she was uncontrollable, and in an uncontrollable state, the energy was amazing.
In the third filming of the mockingbird promotional film, Hamick reviewed the past of the eldest cousin, and then concluded that every time the eldest cousin improvised, he often performed amazingly.
People love to see the unexpected, and that's what the big cousin is best at. Stylist Senna creates an unexpected opening for the big cousin, and then from the interview show, the big cousin continues to use her own spontaneity and freedom to create the unexpected again and again.
Such a big cousin, who does not like, in the body of the big cousin, as if you can see the infinite possibilities. People were happy to pass on her deeds and imitate her appearance, and the people of all thirteen districts, even the people of the capital, without exception.
There is only one person, and it is difficult to tolerate. He is President Snow. He knew that the eldest cousin was the hope that needed to be controlled. So the whole Hunger Games movie series is a showdown between control and anti-control.
On one side is the white rose represented by Snow, and on the other side is the mockingbird represented by the eldest cousin
White roses
In the pocket of Snow's chest, there was always a fragrant white rose. The reason is that Snow poisoned all his competitors in order to become president, in order to poison the other party when he did not suspect the other party, he would drink the poison with the other party every time, and then drink the antidote afterwards, so his mouth and tongue had festered, and when he spoke, it would bring blood, so he covered it up with the scent of roses.
The white rose itself symbolizes purity, and in Snow's eyes, the world can simply follow its own plan and sail along the waters. But if something is beyond his control, it must be put back on track or eradicated.
Returning home in District Twelve after the Hunger Games, the eldest cousin met Snow's White Rose in her safest place. It was Snow's warning to her, telling the eldest cousin that I was everywhere.
The delicate and pure white rose appeared again and again in all corners of the life of the eldest cousin, just like Snow's eyes, staring at the eldest cousin deadly. In the long run, for the eldest cousin, the flower is no longer a symbol of beauty, but a suppression of fear.
At the end of the bombing of the thirteenth ward, Snow's head was scattered with white roses above his eldest cousin's shelter, and I did not believe that it was a coincidence that the airdropped flowers would not be so concentrated, nor could the flowers be so complete under the fire of the cannon. This is obviously telling the eldest cousin, telling the thirteenth district, telling the audience that your every move is completely under my control.
Snow loves to play this kind of control game too much, even knowing that someone has come to secretly rescue Pita, but let them enter in a dignified manner. Because he believes that control can make people really fearful.
But in the end, Snow also became a death row prisoner in his manor full of white roses, and under his control, he lost control.
Mocking birds
Initially, the mockingbird was just a delicate badge. It was given to the eldest cousin's sister as a blessing of good luck. However, it backfired, and only after wearing the badge was put on, the sister was chosen by fate to become a tribute to the Hunger Games.
The badge then accompanies the big cousin and takes to the arena of the Hunger Games, becoming the totem of the big cousin fighting for her sister.
In the arena, Lulu of District Eleven told her eldest cousin what a real mockingbird was. When you make a sound, the mocking bird will imitate your voice and pass your voice in turn. Even if you are far away, you can hear the other party's voice by laughing at the birds.
Later, starting with the Eleventh Ward, the insignia, whistles, and gestures of farewell all became the symbol of the mockingbird, a simple repetition in the crowd, and finally the spark of revolution was rubbed.
Wherever there is the shadow of the mockingbird, where there is resistance, the mockingbird has become synonymous with resistance. Everything related to mockingbirds will be suppressed in the capital.
But the more you suppress it, the more you are afraid. The thirteenth district's female president, Quinn, was clever, and she took advantage of this to challenge the capital. The thirteenth district alone may not pose any threat to the capital, but if the other twelve districts can be linked, the energy will be unstoppable.
So, how to link the twelve districts, the answer, is - mockingbirds. The characteristics of the mockingbird are repetition and transmission, and if the emotions of hatred and resistance can be transmitted to every administrative region, to the hearts of every person, there is hope for the revolution. So they found the big cousin, because the big cousin is the biggest traffic star in Shi Huiguo, and every time she raises her hand and feet, it touches people's hearts.
When the eldest cousin raised her arm and shouted out the voice of her heart, the torch of revolution was completely lit. Quinn and the designer recorded and broadcast the big cousin's every move to the people of the country in the form of a video, so one district after another, with the guidance of the big cousin, rose up. In the end, Snow was caught in the airborne gunfire. Oppose the revolution in the capital and declare victory.
The angry people saw Snow tied to a pillar and recalled their oppressed memories, and all of them did not want to eat his flesh and drink his blood. When the eldest cousin shot the female president with an arrow, and the people in the audience could no longer resist rushing to the stage, they did not come to sanction the rebellious big cousin, but to eat and peel off the white rose snow of the previous president.
This picture is so messy. Who is the real enemy?
When Quinn proposed to host the Hunger Games again, the big cousin knew that this was the next president, a trick to control people's hopes.
But even if it is to kill Quinn, what is the use, the real enemy of everyone is never a specific region, a certain polity, a certain person. It is the evil thoughts that may swell at any time when people hold great power in their hands.
In fact, the eldest cousin has never been a mockingbird, and the mockingbird will only simply repeat and pass on, which is something that the eldest cousin has never been good at.
Shi Huiguo's revolution has never lacked mocking birds, because every people is actually a mockingbird. What the revolution lacks is always the voice of the very beginning.
It is very easy to resist, and knowing what you are resisting is the key to the problem.