Im a sucker for all that jazz, even when its at its silliest.
That would be your Soylent Green is people!
Its grandiose, kooky, and sometimes cruel.
Perhaps the tragedy of Snow, then, is his privilege damned him to fall from the start.
This is how Snow meets Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler).
Lucy is a clever inversion of Jennifer Lawrences beloved Katniss Everdeen.
This makes her odds of survival in the Hunger Games all the more bleak.
Theirs is a Hollywood melodrama, which given the material seems to intentionally echo post-Civil War weepies of yesteryear.
Where the film does run into issues is the 10th annual Hunger Games themselves.
The are far too many choreographed action-packed thrills that contradict the horror of main characters.
Like any first snow, its cold but strangely pleasant.
The Hunger Games: Songbirds & Snakesopens in theaters on Friday, Nov. 17.
Rating:
3.5 out of 5
