This has changed my entire view on the trilogy, and has inspired me to do my university dissertation on this topic

New sub. Great video. You look gorgeous

As one woman noted in the 1900s all the love stories they had were really just us focusing on the man no matter he was pursuing the woman and her reactions were a part of it all it was all his cookies for the perusing the story was really a him story not a her story no her story came later after the wooing after she was won the part where her grit, her labor, the stories focus would be put upon her the post woo stage of actual life living with this male and taking care of him then their children and all her struggles to keep the family together that's the woman's story and that story was never told, always left out, leaving all women and girls ill prepared for the truths, struggle, grit, and toil of their lives leaving them in shock, despair, and bitterness of the lie they were sold via those books which informed real life workings in courtship and what was suppose to be right within it and the expectations it set up. They've been lying to women in print for 100 years but far more before that on what is love, romance, and normal relationships. the devotion your talking about is just coveture talk he wants his fourth limb to behave and it's not just marriage they have soical, political, entertainment, and cultural coveture.

You’re gorgeous!

i certainly dont dream of labour but it rips at my soul knowing any privilege i enjoy must inherently be at the expense of someone, somewhere

there's no patriarchy, feminist is a lie

good obvs

Please ladies, be honest and also be as critical and angry about Taliban and Iran.

Indeed ….this is what all men in US dream …..so true …….men are NOT EVEN LOYAL TO THEIR LOVERS OR WIVES .

"Be my slave while also loving me no matter what I do..." Stockholm syndrome, only victims develop that... There is something very very wrong with men who would want a woman to be like that

Damn. That was- deep af. Like, the truth of it is so evident now.

That has to be the worst proposal I've ever heard.. like.. "sir.. is thou art for real??" 😐🤦🏾‍♀️..

You basically should not want nothing out of life but them...

COMPLETELY give your SOUL

Unfortunately, the video title is so spot on 😢

This video is SOOOO good, thank you. I re read the books just now (because sure, there isn't enough of this happening in the real world) and you help me put into words everything I feel about the saga. Thank youuu

I was about 8 or 9 when the first movie came out, and I BEGGED my mom to let me see it. She told me if I read the book first I could watch the movie, thinking that the novel would be less violent, and to her surprise I actually did. I won’t lie, I enjoyed the movies a lot as a kid, though having rewatched them now as an adult I can see the themes that were dumbed down to make a more marketable film. I’m seriously considering re-reading Catching Fire and finally getting into Mockingjay (I started it though never finished) because of this video, but I can also see how much reading this novel as a child affected my view of the world and politics. As I’ve grown I’ve started to not take fiction as seriously, preferring non fiction or historical fiction narratives, especially with there being plenty of bad YA hunger games rip offs *cough cough* Divergent *cough cough* Red Queen. Thank you for making this video, you truly helped to change my perspective and have more appreciation for the novels I grew up with The Starving Games will never not be funny to me, however

Capital citizens don't actually speak with a British accent. It's more like a toned down version of the Mid-Atlantic accent, as heard in old movies.

Thanks for the great analysis!!! This series is very important to me, and it’s such a shame how overlooked the core themes and the many, many political messages are. (Also I love your monstera! It looks very happy and cute)

i’ve always thought the hunger games is deeply allegorical, it’s meant to comment on contemporary issues through an exaggerated lens, but as someone mentioned in the comments it’s funny no one bothered to critically apply post-colonialism to the text, especially when ‘district’ and ‘colony’ are basically interchangeable in the story, thank you for sharing !!!

The classical music playing over your voice is surprisingly distracring- i can't focus on what you're saying at all! 😅

I remember 😆

I remember very distinctly when I traveled abroad a year to Chile (from Germany) to work in a pretty empoverished area (a whole other in retrospect problematic dynamic) that one of my first thoughts was when I started to politicize that it feels like I came from the capitol to the districts. And that maybe I was part of the capitol and the world I came from was the problem. This whole year influenced me deeply and politicized me pretty radically and I'll hold Suzanne Collins always dear to make my mind open for these associations. Now many years later and way better informed about postcolonial theory I still think the story slaps!

You look beautiful in the second outfit. Like something about the cut looks really angelic on you

As someone from a third world country. I find the books pretty accurate on how it is to live here. We are more likely to have military dictatorships in our countries, it happens a lot. They had killed a lot of people, sometimes because they speak up for our rights and sometimes they woul kill you just because it was funny to them. It's very sad and it's actually crazy how a lot of people here actually defends these evil dictators and votes to put these people in a powerful position

Hunger Games to releasing what true horrors capitalism, imperialism and white supremacy has on us The heavily policed district 11 with large population are black or brown African Americans. . . Like.. AGRICULTURE👁️ 👁️ The pushed out purposely isolated and letting the system it built take its course…. dying for absolutely nothing because no one is watching. 🗣️THE WAY KATNISS IS DESCRIBED IN THE BOOKS NOT ONLY HER BUT HER FATHERS LOOKS CONTRAST TO HER MOM AND PRIM!!!!!!!! His. knowledge. of.living WITH nature!!! Knowledge of hunting, roots, not only hunting but how to create own bows and arrows 😵‍💫😵‍💫

You look so ethereal

Thank you for this brilliant take! I recently reread the books and felt it was so gut wrenching, because when I think of so many conflicts right now, I see the parallels and Katnisses perspective shows us so much the human side of these forces that we often only perceive as something like an abstract concept if we dont experience it ourselves. It is so relevant and important, I wish everyone would read that book and really take in all the considerations you pointed out so clearly.

Thank you! I Iearned a lot in this video and never thought about colonialism this way before. I never realised I could be inside of a single nation, and it makes me reflect on our own gouvernements and their behaviors towards their people Also, love your style 🌟 Love from France 💖

fantastic video and analysis!!!!!

Been searching for this analysis on KZbin for three days. 😄

Its a movie against communism. Not against colonialism

This is so insanely relevant. I can't help but draw parallels between the hunger games and so many current national and international conflicts, like Palestine, Sudan, DRC and so many more. The isolation of districts, the exploitation, the othering, I can't even begin to describe the similarities. Even when we talk about the US, it's not hard to see he connections.

I pity you and anyone who has been in relationships that have caused them to view the world in this way

Amazing!!

There's no war but class struggle! Power atracts the corruptable, and it doesn´t hold them captive of their responsabilities. That's where we have to rebuild our societal systems.

I love Chopin and his Nocturnes, but the background music is loud enough to be distracting 😢

We never reached post colonization. Its still going

Places like Scotland for centuries had colonial control, and had their useless rebellion's, but did not come into their own until they maned up by upskilling. The fastest places to uptake on human potential regardless of resources well do better for themselves, and their nation's. We have access more, and more to the key to productivity that is information conveyed by our devices to effect world around us, and make it better ourselves because no one else can do it.

I mean the video is not bad, but I feel lke it doesnt relly add any interesting new pov's, all of these things are either glaringly obvious for anyone with the tiniest media literacy/critical thinking or directly stated in the books

Side note: the puking to eat more is likely a reference to the Roman Vomitorium. They did the exact same thing.

Saw a video where someone actually laid out where the districts would be in terms of the states. I noticed immediately what the author was getting at. Realistically. MOST if not all dystopian fiction is a some shit that already happened to women and non white people. Mfs get mad when you say it, but everyone loves the hunger games and the handmaid’s tale.

Given that this came out two years ago, you may never get a chance to read this comment, but I wanted to thank you for your thoughtful and well supported thesis.

Okay good one Facebook 😂 friends and I was just in group chat less than 30 minutes ago talking about how ppl who watched the movies think hunger games has a more different meaning than the books. And how we are tired of ppl with no media literacy making twitter think pieces on why hunger games is “shallow” Next time ima just link this video as my rebuttal The one that bothers me most is when ppl complain about how only 1 major industry is produced by each district Without acknowledging that by doing this the capitol keeps everyone dependent on their dictatorship

Love this! It's especially important to remind readers with Snow's origin story becoming a conversation. The guy didn't just turn evil because he wanted power, he always had that coloniser mindset embedded in him from childhood that prevented him from fully supporting a resistance against his government. People act shoked that he could turn evil after saving Lucy's life but in the real world, the most colonial minded people will still do acts of kindness every now and then. So thank you for your video because people are way too comfortable stripping the HG universe of its real world parallels when they're inevitable.

Fantastic explanation and breakdown.

I always thought that when I first read the series prior to the films that Panem echos American colonialism. I later come to the fact that it is applied across the world. The districts provide services that benefit the capital. Just like the western hemisphere colonies produced cash crops that elevated specific European empires.

I wish the algorithm had pointed me to your videos when they were first coming out!

Yes! This is one aspect that spoke to me when I read the books the first time and it's wonderful to hear you speaking about it.