“Katniss Everdeen is an imperfect heroine, which makes her all the more compelling…She’s conflicted and often selfish; she loves but resents her mother; she has reservations about marriage and children due to the harsh reality of the world around her; she has complicated feelings for the men in her life; she makes rash decisions and sometimes they’re the wrong ones. In short, she’s a human being. And thus…this character is “both murderer and victim, somehow representing female strength and female vulnerability all mingled and entwined…
In the novels, you’re forced to wonder — along with Katniss herself — what her motivations are for an act of apparent compassion in the end, and for a split second you wonder whether she’ll go through with it. The film doesn’t raise those questions…at the end of the film, you feel that Katniss won the games because of her innate goodness; in the book, she won because her will to live in the face of systemic terror and cruelty had pushed her to become a ruthless warrior.”
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