The Hunger Games
In my analysis, I will discuss how gender, in particular
feminism, is depicted in the movie and how typical stereotypes related to women
and men are almost irrelevant to the society Panem has. I will use the scene
where Rue is killed and the farewell Katniss gives to her in order to support
my claim of gender-neutral view of the filmmakers.
At first the audience would
think that the scene is following a normal and predictable stereotypes where
Katniss is a woman and she is looking after Rue, who is a young girl and does not
have many skills to defend herself. It is obvious at this stage of the film that
Katniss will continue to look after Rue even though the audience knows there
can be only one survivor at the end of the Hunger Games. The fact that the
creator wanted Katniss to take care of Rue also is not a coincidence because
the audience knows that she has a younger sister who she volunteered for;
therefore, meeting Rue and taking her under her wings shows Katniss’s soft side
and lets the audience know that Katniss did not turn into a killing machine
even though she is well capable of getting rid of Rue. The author, on one hand, still wants the
audience to remember that Katniss is a woman and has motherly characters
because her father died and she became the mother to her younger sister because
her mother became almost useless around the house
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