A KENNEDYdate to Resistance.

The Hunger Games is technically organized homicide. So one cannot shake the feeling throughout or portions in the film that look, feel, and/or sound already as elaborate as it is improbable. Or so it's an unshared perception. While the story itself, of its stark story telling, a $307M (November 24th, 10:00am) hunger-satisfied box office cannot lie, again, maybe an unshared perception, Russovoir pinned the story to a metaphorical reality; the rich and poor pyramid of today.

We assume everyone figured out the subtle to the slow glaring to the nimble 'tradition' of The Capitol. Where the government has carte blanche by their own disillusioned set of laws to pose authority on which fear is what they feed on to stay atop the food chain. And everyone abides because, on the surface, who are we to question who sees, holds everything whereas each and every District knows only what they know, compounded by fear, compounded by nescience.

Now, the tributes.

"There's no one left that I love they can hurt."

Jennifer Lawrence was set aside for a while (picked up at the wedding gown scene) for this volatile vixen, Jena Malone as the District 7 tribute Johanna Mason (above). Axe-cellent casting. At first Russovoir thought hmm they picked someone comparatively shaded from fame and like lumber from which puts food on the tables of District 7, planted and unaffected by the mainstream, not too close to stagnate Lawrence's strong current of fame. But just like Johanna Mason's back story, who we recall appeared gullible and nonthreatening yet had won the killing spree, Malone killed the role and may seem moronic now, avenged the beloved character unwatered, until this film, in our heads.

"People are starving in 12 and, they make themselves sick here."

The concept of the trilogy, at least the two books, yet Russovoir is confident it's the entire trilogy because he has had read more than half of Mockingjay, is as remarkable as it is daunting how indicative and prevalent the oppression, oligarchy, despotism, and barely shown - yet - rebellion of the masses. The juxtaposition of the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the worldwide premiere of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire dates was no mere coincidence; he had been a mockingjay.