Monday, March 26, 2012  The Hunger Games    "Thank you for your
consideration."  To read Suzanne Collins' "The Hunger Games"
trilogy is to develop a personal relationship with - and deep,
genuine love of - its heroic teenage protagonist, Katniss
Everdeen. The world Katniss inhabits, Panem (Latin for "bread"),
a post-apocalyptic North America divided into 13 ravaged
Districts ruled over by a malevolent Capitol, is seen entirely
through Katniss' eyes and point of view. We live with Katniss,
hunt with her, fight with her, cry with her, suffer with her,
mourn with her, and triumph with her as she is thrust into a
televised fight to the death against 23 other teenagers in an
annual "pageant" called The Hunger Games. Director Gary Ross'
hotly anticipated The Hunger Games feature
film ultimately succeeds as an adaptation of the novel, though
it is burdened by a constant, at times even brutal battle
between what's captured on screen and what is in the mind's eye
of the audience who loves the books.   The Hunger Games