The hunger games does a good job supporting the themes that we have been learning about in class. It shows how reality shows are not "real" because they get manipulated to improve ratings. This also ties into the themes of consumerism because the more of these shows that we "consume" the more money they make. What the audience wants the audience gets. This causes the reality aspect of these shows to disappear and makes them just as much a work of fiction as spider man. Hunger Games shows us what could potentially happen if a capitalistic driven government has complete and unquestionable power over its people. All they were concerned about was making money even if it involved innocent children being forced to kill each other. One thing is for sure. I never want to live in a society like that, and I feel like if we start to neglect our own freedoms, we could very easily end up in a similar situation.
"What the audience wants the audience gets" i feel this is true to an extent. the more we watch something the more involved we get into the life of the show. so the more we watch the more we want, and im sure the corporations would be happy enough to give that to us... sort of. they only like giving us stuff it it benefits them more. they put money into shows that have a bigger fan base because they get more money out of them.
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