![]() ![]() Thus are the stakes set: Be a good girl and no one gets hurt (at least, beyond the customary pains and privations inflicted by the Capitol). Anything she does that might encourage this association, Snow threatens, will result in dire consequences for her family and her district. ![]() There are embers of unrest flaring up across the districts, and many would like to hold Katniss up as a symbol of their rebellion. While most of the viewing public may have been taken in by Katniss’s show of love in the Games, Snow explains, he recognized it for what it was: an act of defiance. Katniss and Peeta, now celebrities as a result of their (genuine) win and (counterfeit) romance, are preparing to act as show ponies for the Capitol on a nationwide “victory tour,” when President Snow (Donald Sutherland) waltzes in with his warning. Pretending to love him back, Katniss succeeded in engineering a scenario whereby both she and Peeta were allowed to survive the Games. In the previous movie, Katniss was selected to represent District 12 along with Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson), a sweet young baker who also happened to be in love with her. Every year, in punishment for a past rebellion, the Capitol requires all 12 districts under its rule to supply two teenage “tributes”-one girl and one boy-to participate in the Hunger Games, a televised, to-the-death tournament with only one survivor. To recap: Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) is a resident of District 12, an impoverished mining province held in thrall by a remote and tyrannical Capitol. ![]() Perhaps most important, Catching Fire does a more faithful job of capturing the grim vision of Suzanne Collins’s source novels than its rather tepid predecessor. Which it is: better directed, better scripted, better cast. But it works pretty well, too, as a critique of the first film and a promise that this one will be better. This is the warning offered to Katniss Everdeen by a frostily whiskered President Snow early in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the sequel to the 2012 franchise opener. ![]()
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