Review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) by Healingtoolbox1 — 11 Dec 2015
Copy of letter to Amy Nicholson, who gave the film 100. I gave it 90. Hi Amy, I read you when you were in LAWeekly. Just saw fourth film. I have to go back to the first Matrix movie for so bold a new angle on heroism.
The normal treatment would have been a showdown between Coin and Katniss, where Coin reveals she, not Snow, bombed the children. This scene is missing altogether (thank god) and the possibility of Coin as the new villain is a tossed off line with little weight or credibility given to it. Then Katnis does what no hero ever does in film, she kills deliberately--and it works!
Not since Matrix 1 have the rules been broken so wonderfully, in my memory.
The end result is the fourth movie becomes a character study of Katnis. The film is impossible to imagine without the landscape of Jennifer's face; especially, if you compare it to the heroine of Divergent, etc, etc. You are right. It's her withholding of emotion and impulsiveness which we learn to love.
All in all quite a remarkable and creative achievement unlike most Hollywood fare. I've read none of the books. From a summary of Book three, it appears the movie sharpens the themes admirably.
This review of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) was written by Healingtoolbox1 on 11 Dec 2015.
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