Catching Fire is on fire

Catching Fire is on fire

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is a darker, more powerful installation than its predecessor, The Hunger Games. Adapted from the best selling trilogy by author Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire began where the first film left off.

The Hunger Games is a trilogy set in the fictional dystopia of Panem, where every year two tributes are chosen at random from each of its 12 districts to fight to the death in a bloody, exaggerated spectacle which is televised for the enjoyment of Panem’s frivolous upper class.
Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) return home after surviving the Games only to find themselves thrown back in after the revolutionary spirit they inspire sparks worry in the Capitol. The Capitol’s elite class realizes that Katniss has brought up a restlessness in the people  who have begun to act out against their oppressive, trivial government.
Catching Fire took on more of the grim themes from the book series and had such emotionally potent scenes that there were times were I actually had chills. It more deeply expressed the compromised morality holding up the dystopia  of Panem, its glamorous Capitol, and the 12 Districts whose people live a primitive, poor life.
The second movie in the trilogy better fleshed out the characters and gave Effie, the previously despicable, colorful and pretentious District 12 escort actual empathetic qualities that for the first time made her human.
The whole mood of the second movie is a lot more ominous- ashy colors, a foreboding soundtrack, and dark scenery. Although it was not as much as an action movie as the first release in 2012, it made up for that with its more emphasized elements of drama, romance, and angst. Despite the extraordinary success of the first movie, Catching Fire is an even better, more evocative adaption of Collins best-selling series.