Cronica: The Hunger games

 Given the huge reputation of the "Hunger games" book series, I decided to go to the movie theater myself (along with some friends) and check what the craze was all about. Upon arriving the cinema I noticed that there seemed to be a lack of people, probably because it was Wednesday, nevertheless I decided to go and buy my ticket, the price of 49 pesos seemed small to me, specially since popular movies tend to go for much higher prices. I then went and bought some popcorn and soda, as overpriced as they are, there is a special feeling in buying a "Friends popcorn pack".

We were a bit late so we missed the commercials, we proceeded to take our seats and prepare to finally watch the movie.

The movie started with the main character, Katniss, going out to hunt for animals, the place where she lived, "District 12", is a poor community based around mining, after seeing the main character hunt for a while we get introduced to our main plot point. The hunger games, something like American idol with teenagers killing each other.

Katniss' little sister gets elected for the hunger games despite this being her first year in the "raffle". Katniss then proceeds to volunteer into taking her place as a "tribute". Then the male tribute gets chosen and we are shown for the first but definitely not for the last time a flashback where the male tribute, Peeta throws a piece of bread at Katniss during a storm.

The two youngsters are then taken to a train where they will get transported into the "Capitol" where The Hunger Games will be held. They get advice from their adviser about how to survive and possibly win the games.

We then see the teenagers go into a parade where the rest of the competitors are shown, this scene seemed to mainly serve the purpose of showing off the marvelous special effects for the first time, our main characters wear gorgeous fire dresses which are actually on fire, the suits however prevent them from getting burnt at all.

After seeing the kids train for a while and being briefly introduced to the rest of the competitors from each district, we see a scene where each of the kids show off their special talent in order to get sponsors. Katniss is completely ignored, this makes her mad and she decides to shoot an apple in the crowd's dining desk, this both startles and impresses the crowd, giving her a slight reputation of a soulless woman.

After a bit more dialogue we finally get to the part of the games themselves, as soon as the games start 4 kids are killed for trying to get to the supplies bags, Katniss manages to get one after almost getting shot in the head. She then runs far off to the woods to hide and not encounter anyone. However, she is then found by an alliance made by members from Districts 1, 2 and Peeta himself. They corner her into climbing a tree and then wait until she gets off. Katniss is then adviced by a kid to let a killer wasps Hive into them, with this she manages to scare them away but she gets stinged by a few wasps too.

The little girl form earlier and Katniss form an alliance and manage to blow up all of the evil guys' supplies, we then see some filler flashbacks and running scenes and finally the little girl gets killed, leading Katniss into a killing rage.

In the end, only Katniss, Peeta and Cato (the leader of the evil alliance) are left, Katniss and Peeta find each other and decide to go all romantic on each other in order to get more sponsors and hopefuly provitions that may help them survive. In order to get the kids out of their hiding spot some weird devil dogs are summoned.All 3 kids get to the center of the field, Cato threatens to kill Peeta, and in a twist of events falls off to get eaten by the dogs.

In the end they declare Peeta and Katniss the winners and the movie ends.