Carlos Salas/Week 2/Period 5/The Hunger Games

      The Hunger Games was a thrilling and dramatic movie based on Suzanne Collins’ hugely successful trio of young adult novels, that portrays an era where a country is divided into districts (1-12). The story opens with the annual Hunger Games, a game where two members of each district; one male and one female, are forced to kill each other in a one man standing battle.
      The story centers around two teenagers from District 12 Katnis Everdeen (played by Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta Mellark (played by Josh Hutcherson). Peeta was chosen and Katnis was a special situation that I won't ruin for those who haven't watched. These two teenagers go to see the rest of the districts along with their drunk mentor, and former winner of the Hunger Games Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson) and Elizabeth Banks as the fluttery, ineffectual official helper-outer Effie Trinket. The tributes see the capitol and the fame and also meet the other 22 year olds who are willing to kill to put on a good show and save their lives.
      I personally am in love with this movie series and im not one to fall for those Twilight kind of things, but the Hunger Games has incredible acting, humor, action, love interests and just everything you want in a movie. I give this movie 4 out of 5 stars for its great actors and its story line