20 12 before the first season of The Hunger Games was released, my professor of communication invited Nina Jacobson, the film producer, to come to class and tell us something about female filmmakers in Hollywood. The professor spoke highly of Nina Jacobson, and spoke highly of this adventure film, which was created by women, produced by women and led by women, as a victory of Hollywood feminist movement. As a communication major, I spent almost half my college life studying and writing about how the media expresses gender. The conclusion of my research is always frustrating: most movies, TV plays and music videos in the United States that seem to be gender equality still convey a conservative concept of gender division of labor, eroticizing women in the name of women's rights and sexual liberation, and our heroes and saviors are always men. The Hunger Games is undoubtedly eye-catching because it is so different from popular hero movies. Katniss, played by jennifer lawrence, is the heroine. Most of the time, her makeup is extremely simple, her figure is strong, her clothes are conservative, and she is not as glamorous as jennifer lawrence's own life. If she is allowed to play traditional heroines such as Catwoman and Charlie Hebdo, I'm afraid everyone will just want to say "Stop it", which is almost as abrupt as Michelle Chen's role as a little dragon girl. However, Katniss' bravery and kindness in the harvest ceremony and games made her charm completely detached from the appearance of this role, and broke through the shackles of mainstream hero movies on female images, thus winning the admiration of countless male and female fans around the world. Besides, the shortcomings of this role are real and fascinating. Although she hates the rulers of this world and the cruel rules of the game, in order to save most people's lives, she still chooses not to resist this system, and even keeps lying with Peta to maintain this system, which also hurts PETA's heart. Such defects may make some people sneer, but Katniss's cowardice is mainly due to his love for his family and fear of more life sacrifice, which is also understandable and understandable by most people emotionally.

With a good impression of the first film, I have been looking forward to the release of single spark can start a prairie fire. Today is the second day of its official release in the United States, but some students around me have seen it and given it special praise. In this way, it can be said that I went to see this movie with particularly high expectations, but it still far exceeded my expectations, and I was still very excited after watching it!

In the first movie, Katniss' psychological struggle mainly focused on her emotional entanglements. In order to survive, she had to act like she was madly in love with pita, but she knew that pita really liked her, and she only liked Gail. The friends around me didn't like the first movie, mainly because they were a little powerless to this slightly bloody love drama. But in this film, although Katniss still loves Pita and Gail, the focus of her psychological struggle has turned to whether she should resist the system. Freedom, or drag out an ignoble existence, is also the eternal theme of American hero movies. However, I really can't remember any successful mainstream commercial films in the past. It is such a young woman who made a choice and set off a revolutionary wave. When she shot a thunderous arrow at the dome, all the audience in the cinema cheered for her, because her spirit of bravely resisting tyranny and self-sacrifice embodied universal values beyond gender, race and culture. She is a shining hero. She doesn't need a perfect appearance and personality, but she can still move people's hearts and make them love and worship.

In addition to the successful portrayal of the heroine, another feature of the Hunger Games series is that there are far more female characters than mainstream hero movies, and these characters have a greater role in promoting the plot than male characters. In the first film, prim, Katniss' sister, was chosen as a sacrifice to protect her sister, and Katniss took the initiative to participate in the game, and it was also a sacrifice in 1 1 area. The death of the lovely little black sister Rue made Katniss truly realize the cruelty and horror of this system and made Mockingjay a symbol of revolution. In the second part, the influence of Rue's death continues, and it also profoundly affects Katniss' thinking about whether we should resist and encourage the revolution. In the game, it is the self-sacrifice of Granny Margo, who is sickly but extremely brave and kind in the four districts, that wins the protagonists time to escape from the poisonous fog. Wiress, who is regarded as a madman by God, suggested setting the game scene as a clock. Johanna, who never played by common sense, saved Katniss several times and took Katniss' tracker away, so that Katniss escaped President Snow's tracking. In contrast, although Pita and Gail are the second and third protagonists in the film, they are not the decisive force for Katniss to decide to declare war on this system. At the end of the film, when the mockingbird badge lights up and the oath is full of sparks, and the prelude to change is about to start, we think of Katniss' arrow that cuts through the sky, Rue and those who are not afraid of power and hold up three fingers of hope.

I hope people, especially the audience in China, can pay attention to the expression of feminism when enjoying this film. Every time I take a class on the theme of feminism and write a paper on how women are shaped in the media, I feel sorry for the lack of feminist education in China. When we talk about literature and art, we seldom talk about gender description and its influence on consumers. There is also the cynicism of feminism that can be seen everywhere on the Internet. Not only do they come from men with limited education, but even many intellectuals (no irony here) and women with higher education think that feminism is a pretense of materialistic and selfish female behavior, a theoretical support for women's behavior that is too open to sex and doesn't understand self-esteem, and a guarantee for women with weird behavior and lack of sexual attraction to their disadvantages. However, women's rights are greater than this. We advocate women's rights for the benefit of all women, in order to give women more opportunities for self-realization and reduce the bondage of traditional morality to women in this patriarchal society where women's political and economic influence is far lower than that of men. The Hunger Games tells us that female writers can successfully write adventure novels, female producers can successfully make Hollywood A-rated films, actresses can play heroes who pursue freedom, and female characters can become initiators and executors of a political revolution storm. Maybe you have these beliefs in your heart and feel that this commercial film is far from that important. However, beliefs also need to be consolidated and conveyed through examples. For example, Obama's election as the president of the United States will certainly convince more black children and young people that they may become presidents, and will definitely increase the political participation of black people. Similarly, The Hunger Games encourages women and announces the power of women to the whole society.

In the excitement of watching movies, I can't think of anything to blame at the moment. Calm down a little and remember that the portrayal of female characters in the film can be said to be perfect, but in this magnificent story, there seems to be no role of Asian, Hispanic and other ethnic minorities. Although the black characters in the film are very touching, in today's racially diverse American society, even Raytheon has Asian Norse gods, and its neglect of ethnic minorities other than blacks is incomprehensible. In addition, the protagonists who are fighting alive are all white, which makes people have to sigh that there are still few ethnic minorities in Hollywood, and there is still a long way to go to fight for more rights and interests.