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VIDEO SUMMARY
In this video I review 4 of several themes in The Hunger Games. First, I talk about how power preserves itself and draw parallels to the Roman Gladiators and French beheadings. Second, I talk about the concept of hope being stronger than fear and compare the hunger games to the American dream. Third, I talk about capitalism, systemic violence, the unequal distribution of resources, and America's wealth gap. Lastly, I talk about solutions to end the real life hunger games with hints we can pull from the first movie.
I have not read the books yet so this is based purely on the movie. Other themes that were originally included but were cut were: exploitation as entertainment & our addiction to reality TV and the Iraq war/who violence benefits.
For more on the myth of socioeconomic mobility: http://www.americanprogress.org/kf/he...
Child poverty & intergenerational mobility: http://www.nccp.org/publications/pdf/...
You may also be interested in social reproduction theory.
"The Hunger Games (film)", analysis, the hunger games interpretation, the hunger games themes, the american dream, roman gladiators, french beheadings, lord of the rings, sauron, harry potter, "The Lord Of The Rings (Book)" "The Lord Of The Rings Film Trilogy (Film Series)" "Harry Potter (Literary Series)", voldemort, power corrupts, capitalism, poverty, the 99%, the 1% occupy movement, free market capitalism, social resistance, change, movement, oppression, injustice, corruption, human struggle
