By JONATHON HOWARD
THE highly anticipated sequel to The Hunger Games has shot into BCC Noosa Cinemas this week, following a midnight screening last night.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, the first cinematic chapter of the final instalment in the dystopian film series, is the most political entry yet.
The movie, directed by Francis Lawrence, opens after the events of Catching Fire.
Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) is in the psychiatric ward of District 13 where the rebel alliance, led by the resolute President Coin (Julianne Moore) and her Dick Cheney-ish advisor, Plutarch Heavensbee (played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman), is readying for war with the Capitol.
Katniss is suffering from the third Quarter Quell, where she ended the games by firing a charged arrow into the game’s force field, shattering it to pieces.
The move, according to Coin, “electrified the nation,” and the oppressed districts are rallying behind their arrow-slinging rebel figurehead, or “Mockingjay”.
Fans of The Hunger Games books continue to get behind the cinematic series which is promising a highly charged final instalment.
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