Hunger Games Movie Review Essay

The Hunger Games is a movie published in 2012, directed by Gary Ross and it is based on the first novel of a dystopian novel trilogy by Suzanne Collins. The movie was a massive box-office success, it was the third-highest-grossing film in the United States of 2012 and by grossing over $691 million worldwide against its estimated budget of $78 million it became the ninth-highest-grossing movie worldwide of 2012 (IMDb). The story takes place at an unspecified time in a future North America, which is now a nation named Panem, where every year one girl and one boy between the ages of 12 and 18 of each of the twelve districts must take part in the Hunger Games. The Hunger Games are an annual event where the so-called tributes of each district fight

In order to protect her younger sister the heroine of the movie, Katniss Everdeen, decides to participate in the Hunger Games as a volunteer instead of Primrose. Together with the male tribute from District 12 named Peeta Melark she is brought to the central city called the Capitol, where all of the inhabitants live in extreme luxury. They spend a couple of days there with the other tributes where they undergo a makeover, participate in an opening ceremony, train for the games and need to gain sponsors, as they can provide the participants of the Hunger Games with food and other gifts during the Games. The event is televised in every household in Panem, therefore all citizens watch the Games excitedly, hoping that one of the tributes of their district comes back as a winner with fame and wealth for the whole district. The aim of this paper is to investigate who the villains of the movie really are. First of all, I will define the terms evil and villain. Then I will analyze the characters of the movie and state whether they are evil or not. This will be done through taking a close look at parts of the movie where those characters represent themselves as villains or are represented as