I am writing this on a word doc in order to be published at a later date. The issue is terribly slow web response to the server. I cannot explain it, but I do admit it had happened in the past. Sometimes the server is just junk. Fortunately, the junkiness of the server is not the point of tonight’s post. I want to talk about the Hunger Games
Specifically I want to talk about the movie I just watched—A Ballad of Snakes and Songbirds (I may have that order backwards but I don’t much care enough to check). It was a movie that, based on what I hear from my partner, did not do justice to the book. Honestly, I could tell you that without her firsthand knowledge of the written version. There were far too many moments that seemed to cut away from what was deep story and relationship building in exchange for drawn out moments of near touching and a high level of focus on the violence. Several characters in the game portion were reduced to utter stereotypes (See: Reaper, the black powerhouse). That didn’t improve the narrative.
Despite these moments it was still enjoyable and held on to enough of the book narrative to be a good story… until the end. That wasn’t so good in my opinion.