The third point of the movie's love triangle, Katniss' hunting partner Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth), remains stranded in District 12 without as much to do as the other two. Director Francis Lawrence holds the victim unflinchingly at the center of the frame, and we're spared seeing the full impact of an execution-style bullet to the head only by a closing door. That's the post-apocalyptic future America in which a wealthy, technologically advanced Capitol squeezes labor and resources out of 12 subjugated districts through force and fear. It's the first significant bloodshed in the film, a scene in which the young heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is made to fully realize the capability for cruelty inherent in the government of Panem. There's a moment of chilling violence in Catching Fire, the second of four planned movies adapting Suzanne Collins' dystopian Hunger Games novels, a moment in which the difference a director makes becomes immediately clear - and one that should give hope to readers who might have felt some disappointment with the first movie. With: Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Donald Sutherland ![]() ![]() Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, some frightening images, thematic elements, a suggestive situation and language.
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