“The Hunger Games” is a brilliant book and film series that is consistently tainted by the negative perceptions of its genre. In actuality, the messages and themes they depict are ones which we can learn a great deal and heed warning from, as our future grows increasingly similar to Panem’s reality.
As an avid Hunger Games fan, I was itching to see the newest addition to the series, curious of how it would hold a candle to the other four movies. Frankly, I’m not even sure if it fits in the series altogether –– it stands as its own entity, and that separate entity is undoubtedly done well.
To say that The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a step up from the first installment of the trio would be a massive understatement. When audiences last left the fictional land of Panem, Katniss Everdeen...
