Hunger Games the Movie Review

   The Hunger Games book was an amazing story, with a good plot, characters, and theme. But the movie seemed as if you needed to have read the book to see the movie. Emotions were not shown at important junctures and I felt as if I could not relate to the characters at all. Katniss and Prim were the only characters that I had a view of. Peeta was unrelatable and so were many of the Capitol characters as well as Haymitch. I also didn't get a feel for the torture and evil of the Capitol. In the book they make slaves called avoxes that have their tongue cut out to shut their blasphemy. In the movie it never even mentioned avoxes or what they were. The only real treachery of the Capitol was the hunger games and what that involved, but in the end the movie could not express what the book showed.
    Rue was a very important character in the book, not only because of her young age, but also because she became friends with Katniss in an arena where you are forced to kill each other. The districts are seperated and some are stricter than others, but in the end they have no way to communicate. So this sharing of information is a very important part in the story. But unfortunately, in the movie there was no connection whatsoever. They meet for about 30 seconds and become instant friends. I was very disappointed because I think Rue and Katniss becoming allies was an extreme point in the storyline. You can't disregard scenes with such importance and turn it into nothing. Her and Rue shared their stories in the book for what seemed like hours, but in the movie it was about 1 minute. The scene was extremely rushed, and when you saw Rue die, you wouldn't feel much at all. In my opinion this part could have been done better.
    In conclusion, the Hunger Games movie was not as good as the book. At times you had to rely on your knowledge from the book to make sense of a characters emotions, which was not fun. That means that some scenes would be strange to people who have not read the book. I think that the movie was made assuming that most people read the book, but just because a lot of people have read the book doesn't mean some people haven't. In addition, most of the characters were impossible to relate to and feel their emotions. This is probably because the book was written using first person and the movie couldn't really work that in. The book and movie were different in many ways, but then against, when is a movie better than the book?