The Hunger Games movie review

I enjoyed this movie as I think most will, however if you have read the trilogy and are a fan of the books you will find some discrepancies in the story line.  There are always a few when attempting to make books into movies.  The one in this movie that most disappointed me was how Katniss receives the mocking jay pin.  I think who it belonged to and where it came from is a semi important detail and it is completely disregarded in the movie version.  Jennifer Lawrence is awesome as Katniss Everdeen. As a woman I must say I am quite pleased with the amount of female heroines there have been in movies of late.  We root for her from the very first chapter as she has stepped up to fend for her family in the absence of her father.  I love the casting in this movie, but must point out another discrepancy from the book in that the characters from Katniss's district save for her mom and Prim are supposed to be olive skinned and none of the actors hired to play the characters have olive skin.  Maybe this is not important, but I certainly noticed having read the trilogy.  I felt Woody Harrelson was  perfectly cast as the cantankerous drunkard, previous victor Haymitch Abernathy.  The premise of this film is as old as time I suppose.... there are districts of people that are starving that work themselves nearly to death under police state supervision and control to support a greedy rich capitol district where people live in the lap of luxury, going to endless parties where they feast until they are so full that they must induce vomiting so that they can do it all again.  It is hard to miss the correlation to what is going on in our society today.  We do have people starving and working long hours and struggling just to get by, albeit not under police state conditions, and we do have uber wealthy people making great gobs of money off the labor of those working so hard to get by.  Just look at the Wall Street scandal, the Enron scandal, the state of our healthcare.   I would have to say that the release of this trilogy couldn't have come at a better time or be a better wake up call.  I am in no way asserting the authors intentions, just espousing my own opinions.  So continuing with the premise, each year the capitol district visits each of the subordinate districts  and draws the name of a boy and a girl starting from age 12, (reaping) to go into an arena where they must fight to the death, and the sole survivor gets to live in luxury accommodations and have food a plenty back in their own district for the rest of their natural life.  They call this barbaric practice The Hunger Games and they televise it like an olympic sport.  Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson play the two love interests of our heorine and the cast rounds out with notable actors including, Stanley Tucci, Wes Bentlley, Donald Sutherland, Lenny Kravitx, just to name a few.  Definitely worth the price of the ticket, and "May the odds be ever in your favor".   So on the Heart Chart The Hunger Games gets four out of five hearts. ♥♥♥♥