At this mass defiance, regime goons charge the crowd and give the dad of one of the friends a bullet in the back of the head – Communists’ preferred execution method, by the way. They and the crowd now make the bold “Mockingjay” sign Katniss gave last year: the left hand’s three middle fingers raised high. That cannot and does not last long, because she and Peeta have rebel hearts.Īt a public assembly, the two of them go off script and eulogize young friends slain in last year’s Games. Just 17 and under this compulsion, she agrees. In Catching Fire’s early moments, Snow summons Katniss and threatens to kill her mom (Paula Malcomson) and little sister Prim (Willow Shields) and to wage war against her district unless she becomes a regime propaganda stooge. That stymied – and infuriated – the despot, President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland), who wanted charismatic Katniss dead because he knew she could become a spark that would set off another rebellion among his much-oppressed subjects. The final survivors last time, Katniss and Peeta won jointly by being ready to commit suicide together rather than to have one finish the other off. Last year they won the 74 th Hunger Games, an annual, one-survivor-only fight to the death of two contestants from each district, which the regime mandates as punishment for a rebellion decades ago and as spectacle for the capital city’s glitterati. Katniss and Peeta are from the poverty-stricken and even starvation-threatened 12 th District of the land of Panem, a dictatorship comprising what used to be called North America. The result is a cinematic tribute to integrity of soul and conscience, to the value of human life, and to the raw courage it takes for anyone to stand up, risk everything, and say to the state, “Enough! Enough with your tyranny over us, your shedding our blood, your setting your bloated elites over us who have so little!” Or as Scripture has it, “Thus far, and no farther.” (Job 38)
A worthy sequel to The Hunger Games (2012), this film continues the adventures of heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), hero Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), and more than a few other brave souls as they confront a ruthless, cruel, and conniving dictator and the perils, both physical and moral, in which he places them, their families and their communities.
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