The Hunger Games (2012)

What earned the score

• State Power as an Allegory of Oppression

  The Capitol uses the Reaping and televised death games to keep the districts submissive, turning spectacle and media control into instruments of state power. The government itself is portrayed as the source of violence and suffering, with children as its victims.

• Media Spectacle as Social Corruption

  The televised killings turn violence into entertainment, and the film indicts a voyeuristic media culture that rewards the spectacle. Gale’s suggestion that viewers stop watching frames the audience’s participation as a way to undermine the games.

• Katniss Recasts the Provider as a Female Action Hero

  Katniss hunts to feed her family, volunteers to take Prim’s place in the Games, and fights to protect others in the arena. The film gives its female lead the provider, fighter, and protector roles, recasting heroic agency around a woman.

Details

In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.

Starring

Jennifer LawrenceJosh HutchersonLiam HemsworthWoody HarrelsonElizabeth Banks

Director

Gary Ross

Writer

Suzanne CollinsGary RossBilly Ray

Genre

Science FictionAdventureActionThriller

Release Date

Mar 12, 2012

Parents Guide

• Sex None

  Mild kissing and flirting.

  Some mild kissing scenes.

  Kissing on the lips scene between Peeta and Katniss about 2/3rds of the movie.

  Peeta says that he had a crush on Katniss "forever"

  Glimmer wears a low cut dress.

• Violence Moderate

  A boy's neck is snapped, and we see a few people moments after death.

  An arrow sticks out of a boy's chest after he is shot.

  A girl is poisoned, and her skin turns light blue.

  A girl is killed by a flying spear and pulls the weapon out of her chest before dying. Blood soaks her shirt.

  Another girl is swarmed by violent poisonous wasps and is killed by them. We briefly see her incredibly swollen body.

  Katniss receives severe burns from a forest fire.

  Peeta and another boy roughly punch each other and wrestle.

  Katniss receives a knife slash across her head.

  An explosion is triggered.

  A character is being eaten by dog monsters, and they're executed as a mercy.

• Profanity Mild

  s**t has a single utterance alongside lesser profanity like ass.

• Drugs Mild

  Alcohol and medication use.

  Haymitch is constantly drunk and is almost always seen with a Bottle of any type of alcohol or a glass of whiskey. Alchohol is shown in parties.

  Peeta is Given medicine in form of a cream. Katniss is shown with medicinal cream aswell.

• Frightening Scenes Moderate

  Glimps at the lifeless bodies of kids killed inside of the arena

  The epic deaths of people during the games may be disturbing to some viewers.

  While the idea of children fighting to the death and the deaths themselves being intense it should be kept in mind that the movie is nowhere near as bad as the books.

  Mild/Severe for neurodivergent viewers.

  Rue's death is very sad.

  Can be Scary for sensitive individuals. Rue is stabbed in the chest with a spear and lots of blood and her death is shown. Gloss is shot in the chest. A large explosion happens when katniss shoots the food pile. Can be scary for some viewers. Loud ringing afterwards .

  Katniss stabs a table where haymichs hand is. Misses but can be stressful for young or sensitive viewers.

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