March 2012
Blog Post #4: The Hunger Games
I saw the movie, The Hunger Games this past weekend (not having read the books) and couldn’t help but notice the Marxism and cultural homogeneity within the plot and basis of the movie.
The setting of the movie is in a place called Panem. Panem is made up of 12 poverty stricken districts (citizens) and the Capitol (government). The 12 Districts represent the 99% while the Capitol is the...