As is my usual proclivity, I avoided the crowds who had flocked to theatres to see The Hunger Games. As I watched a decent story decently told, my mind began to turn more rapidly than the blurring action used in scenes of violence to allow for a PG-13 rating (a bonanza of earnings certainly to be worth over $100 million when all is said and done). My mind went into involuntary overdrive as it connected the action in the film to our lives in 2012 America. There has been no shortage or post-apocalyptic cinematic visions in our lifetime. The most common denominator in all of these is the simple question: "How could this happen?" To get caught up in the story of Katniss and Peeta is to lose the essence of the message. The true message of The Hunger Games film is the same that can be found in almost any of these post-apocalyptic visions: Hope springs eternal, and it can be found in our hearts.
During these bleak visions of the future, I often grapple with the idea that people can go from where we are to where they are. Certainly, no one would acquiesce to a direct and violent destruction of their freedom. However, they just might willfully give it away one piece at a time...
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