Dystopian Film: The Hunger Games By Gary Ross

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THE HUNGER GAMES
The dystopian film, The Hunger Games by Gary Ross is the adaption of the bestselling novel written by Suzanne Collins. The Hunger Games is an example of a dystopian fiction which means it is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one.
In a dystopian future, the totalitarian nation of Panem is divided into 12 districts and the Capitol. Annually at a public reaping, the various districts of Panem will offer one young man and woman to fight to the death in an arena; a computer generated

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