https://staging2.theplaylist.net/dayo-okeniyi-amandla-stenberg-join-hunger-games-as-thresh-rue-20110418/ Tue, 17 Nov 2020 19:02:31 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/dayo-okeniyi-amandla-stenberg-join-hunger-games-as-thresh-rue-20110418/#comment-99669 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:44:01 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/dayo-okeniyi-amandla-stenberg-join-hunger-games-as-thresh-rue-119152/#comment-99669 Hunger Games is basically Battle Royale. I can see why the book is so popular with young readers, but as dystopian science fiction, it\’s a big fail, as its future is never fully believable and the author goes for cheap emotional manipulation and exploitation — Rue\’s character exists solely for that — rather than examining her themes with any real depth. It\’ll probably make a good movie, as no one expects action movies to be anything other than shallow escapism anyway.

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