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WHACKO-TV THE HUNGER GAMES

With the success of THE HUNGER GAMES as a movie, WHACKO-TV wanted to know how such a... more

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Hunger Gamers

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“Mommy Porn” Is Hollywood’s Hot New Trend

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'The Hunger Games': 5 scenes that send a progressive message

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Jennifer Lawrence Covers Interview Magazine (PHOTO)

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‘The Hunger Games’ Review: Empty and incomplete

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I just posted this on my deviantart journal. Thought maybe I should share here too.

Currently, everywhere I look, people are talking about two things; the Hunger Games, or that Invisible Children documentary.

To address the documentary; Why? I know it's terribly isolationist of me, but we've got hundreds of thousands of 'Invisible Children' right the fuck here, in the US. Children on food stamps, children in foster-care, homeless children, halfway house children, children in gangs and subsidized housing and juvenile detention centers. We've got plenty of children to see to, if only we would chose to see them.
Perhaps I should put this in terms young people today can understand, and reference a popular TV show to illustrate my point.

I find myself thinking of that episode of Suburgatory, where the slightly-less-shallow-than-everyone-else Tessa Altman notices her classmates' wasteful attitudes toward the cafeteria food, and tries to get her school to consider donating leftover food to the needy. She is met with misunderstanding, funny yet offensively ignorant assumptions, and in the end no real change is affected upon the minds or habits of Tessa's contemporaries.

While the Invisible Children documentary does bring to light some seriously horrifying problems that do exist in the world today, and awareness of reality is always a good thing, it kinda pisses me off that in order for a problem to matter to young people, it's gotta be spoonfed to them in easily digestible Bytes of internet-delivered Trends. Here's an idea; put down your goddamn 4g iphone for two minutes and look around you. Find something that matters to you, that exists in the real world, right there in your own environment. There's bound to be something, I assure you, and I don't even care what it is! It could be a community garden, a soup kitchen, a skate park, a youth center, SOMETHING that will get you outside and interacting with people face to face, eye to eye.
Reconnect with humanity; it feels good.

On to the Hunger Games. I must confess, I am not watching the Hunger Games. I am not reading the trilogy the movie is based on. I'm staying away from it entirely. If I want to immerse myself in a depressing, nuanced story about a futuristic dystopian society, I'll read 1984, or Brave New World. Never heard of them? Google is your friend. I just refuse to go anywhere near this unholy hellspawn of Twilight and Battle Royale.
I know some of you must be thinking, 'Twilight? What similarities could Hunger Games possibly share with Twilight?' Well I'll tell you. There's a love triangle, complete with the twilightesque 'teams' all the fangirls seem compelled to set up for such things. It's gross.

And to be completely honest, the premise of the movie, even though 'it's been done', and this particular incarnation is obviously pitifully watered-down and disneyfied, terrifies the crap out of me. I don't LIKE watching or reading about totalitarian regimes forcing children to kill one another. It makes me sick to my stomach to think about, and quite frankly I'm horrified that our society as it stands now is so warped and twisted that millions upon millions glorify and revel in movies and games featuring violent, human-on-human brutality and murder, while the naked human form is branded as something to hide, something to be ashamed of and ashamed for, something 'unclean'. It's sick, backasswards, and just plain WRONG. And I'm done keeping quiet about it.
Any questions?I just posted this on my deviantart journal. Thought maybe I should share here too.... more