“When producers were laying track for the Hunger Games series years ago, they couldn’t have foreseen how discomforting author Suzanne Collins’ descriptions of a war-torn authoritarian state would look on the big screen in 2014.
“In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part One, Jennifer Lawrence witnesses and/or learns of: towns reduced to rubble, refugee camps next to mass graves, public executions of innocents with burlap sacks over their heads, law enforcement gunning down protesters in the street, and a military bombing a hospital filled with civilians.
“All of these images have resonance in real events of this year, generations before Collins predicted civilization would devolve into a regime that maintains control over its citizens with televised death matches.”
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