I’ve watched this video so many times. Absolutely wonderful analysis, this was so helpful for finding a proper way to describe current society “a hierarchy in oppressed class”

When you talk about manipulation it reminds me of politics and the current governments.

i wish i was your friend!!

again, thank you

Dear @Five by Five Takes, This video essay is amazing, just really excellent. I loved every moment, but sadly I can't subscribe because none of your other videos are on subjects that I enjoy. In any case, this was fantastic and I just want you to know how good it is.

DEEP

i'm cryyyinng

Snaps all around, this was a beautiful and incredibly well thought out analysis of the hunger games. Loved it!!

I hate how these movies were always advertised as "a brutally violent love story" like shut up okay this isn't twilight this is REAL these are true issues people face, painted to be worse on screen of course for dramatization but its still there it matters, its not a love story especially when Katniss is fighting against it herself from the start, she doesn't wanna love Peeta, she wanted Gale, but her situation pushed her into Peeta and yeah she cared about him, if you went through trauma like that with someone you'd care for them a lot too that's human nature, and i personally font think she actually loved him romantically, i didn't get that from the books either honestly she just didnt feel like she was ever at any point actually whole heartedly in love with Peeta, or Gale for that matter.

So capitalism, it's capitalism. Just swap death with poverty and unemployment and desperation. Poor people perform on television to hope to get a lucky break on reality tv because they have no options outside of that. It's the modern capitalist media landscape and the system that produced it is capitalism and the games function like that very system of false meritocracy.

Good analysis and brilliantly argued. It has been almost a decade since I've watched Buffy or Angel, but I remember enjoying Wesley's story arc. Your video made me rethink my position, so I think it is time for a rewatch this summer...

This is a masterpiece. Thank you Sar <3

off topic but in 13.06 you made it look like Adore yeeted Ctra off the platform

You're making me cryyyy with all your wise videos

Very good essay. Gave me a newfound appreciation for this series

This was beautiful lol

Season 4 of angel is my favorite season. Its number 1 defense attorney is here! Hahaha jk....but angel season 4 was my favorite season because of its fight scenes and great episodes and moments that literally define the series as a whole. We wouldnt have the great season 5 without season 4 and everything that took place.

I am a homeless IV drug addict. I have been for the last six years, straight, since I was 20 years old. I grew up solid middle class, had an alright childhood, but have always had at least one abusive person in my life destroying my self esteem. I am also trans, which destroys both your own and others ability to empathize with you as a real human being who has the same innate value and right to exist as every other human being. I transitioned at 13 years old. I have always been used to being an outsider, and up until my 20th year, I was able to almost tirelessly argue for my own humanity-I knew in my heart that I deserved what others did, even if I wasn't always treated that way by others. I was able to find friends and community in so many places, even if it did come less naturally than it did for others. Upon becoming an addict, everything changed. It took me years and years to catch up to it, mentally, but I was IMMEDIATELY ousted from every single community I had, including my own family. I hadn't even done anything wrong. I hadn't stolen from anybody, I wasn't mean or rude or brash or disrespectful, I was just as honest and loving as I have always been. But suddenly, I wasn't worth the same as I had been. I wasn't worth anything at all unless I was sober. And upon realizing the depth and breadth of this in our society-again, taking years to set in-I became distinctly... unable to truly believe in my own value, any longer. It has been six years. My parents and sister do not care whether I am living or dead. We had loving relationships before. I am still raw with the awful truth of this, constantly wondering why they don't care if I am safe, warm, fed, healthy... alive. I know, if the situation was reversed... I would do anything in my power to help. Most people like me are like that. When you are on the street... yes, you will meet some monsters. Every strata of society has monsters, and severe poverty plus addiction does not afford the luxury of always being able to take care of your own needs, much less others. But more often than not, you will meet angels among men. No matter how little someone might have, as long as you're together, you've got half of whatever they have. I am the same. I would rather go hungry and make sure someone else eats at least a bit. I would even rather be a little sick-which, truthfully, if a suffering that no human should ever have to endure-than to have to watch even a complete stranger go through it. I recently was left by my partner of three years. They were abusive. Just like my last partner. I loved them both with my whole heart and would have done ANYTHING for them-and more often than not, I did, suffered for it, and was then punished for feeling anything at all. I couldn't escape, because I had no other support, but more importantly... because I no longer feel like I am worth anything at all, and just want to feel loved, no matter the cost to myself and my wellbeing. Listening to this... I kept feeling so heard, and yet so silenced. It is so shocking how easily people will listen to people who are not like me, will even listen to total fiction, over the lived experiences of those who are living the same or similar horrors every day of our lives. More often, we are seen as the least accurate purveyors of our realities. We are treated like children or animals who must be controlled, caged, "allowed to hit rock bottom"... anything other than dignity, humanity, real support and love. When that is what we need. Unconditional support. Unconditional love. Unconditional medical treatment. Unconditonal respect. That is the only way. I hope one day I get that. I will likely die far before than. I'm sorry for the wall of text, and that I don't have a better note to end this on. If anybody read all of this... please, treat people like me better. You have no idea how much suffering a human being can live through, or the damage that can do to a person's ability to appear put together, hygienic, or even sane. We are all just beings thrown together on this earth without our own consent, rocketing towards death-the difference you could make in this lifetime is so, so, so much bigger than you believe it could be. - ❤

Beautiful

This video is timely, it's thorough, and truly one of the best and most engaging and inspiring breakdowns I've seen on YT. Thank you very much for posting.

An insidious part of the game is that the elderly are not involved. It has been shown that ancient humans have revered their elderly and found ways to keep them with the tribe instead of abandoning them as if to lighten the burden so they could travel more quickly. The elderly have a treasure trove of experience: from knowing what flora and fauna to eat, how to get medicine, how to hunt, how to remember, and how to think critically. A pairing of a tribute with an old person could help the tribute to survive. When to fight, when to retreat, how to ambush, etc. Remembering to take a fallen competitor's spoils, and how to establish a base camp. So much to be learned. So much that could help a tribute survive.

“A forest isnt beautiful because we commanded to grow” you just pull the best line written in history

You cannot watch these movies and not think of Palestine. The Capitols dialogues even match up with Israel’s

Thank you for this beautiful take on the series 🔥

I don t fing Caesar Flickerman charming at all, he is annoying and sinister. It is Stanley Tucci that makes him memorable

idk i think the whole thing is pretty stupid. in the beginning it is implied that ppl are randomly selected but then the main protagonist just volunteered, so im like why don't ppl train, volunteer, and make alliance to go home with the grand price all together alive just like the two at the end? i know it didn't start off as this insanity but at leat one ppl was getting back home each time so how come that none of them came up with any strategy to outsmart the elites coz all they seems to care about is entertainment rather than killings *again they let the lovers win at the end because it was cute or smth*. idk how many of this movie sequel was released but the premise wasn't adding up too me so i didn't care anymore

The Death novels in Discworld are always so heavy with significance

well yeah the games are an analogy for the entertainment machine feeding the sense of escapism in modern day USA (for the citizens in the capital), the actor that played the hungergames TV host said on Colbert that he was just channeling him as inspiration, and he was laughed off but its true. Its the "bread and circuses" of modern society

Very well done, thank you.

wow wow wow wow wow. i need to go re-read the hunger games.

17:37 Collins took this directly from Roman history (like many aspects of her world), the "vomitoriums." Even "Panem" comes from the Latin phrase "panem et circenses," the Roman idea that food & entertainment is what will appease/control a restless population (hence the gladiators, and free wheat to nominal citizens). The name "Seneca" comes from a Roman Stoic (4BC to AD 65), who wrote of the aristocracy "They vomit so they may eat, and eat so that they may vomit," though he may have meant that metaphorically.

19:27 "She's sincere" and THAT IS MOHAGANY

This was a beautifully done video!

They don’t have to play along. You’re most likely going to die anyway, so why play along.

So why does this sound so much like the USA

Also, I kind of feel that “She-Ra” lifts quite a bit from the Aeneid.

I lost this video a quarter the way in and i was so fucking sad i thought id never find it i looked probably a half hour couldn't find it guess what was in my recommended todayyyy

King Charles. He are inside of Jupiter

Is it just me…or do some parts of Horde Prime’s theme sound just a little bit like Rasputin’s song “In the dark of the night” from the movie “Anastasia”?

Does anyone know what the background music at 28:56 was?

and now katniss is a zionist. the irony

Funnily enough, the eventual conclusion is not too dissimilar to how I felt about 'I have no mouth and I must scream'; that even in the cruelest situations, humanity prevails

26:09 This is so funny for no reason lmfao “They’re holding hands. 😊😊😊” *_”I want them dead.”_*

Exactly what Democrats do. Keep the poor in survival mode while stringing them along with sparse hand outs and empty promises.

Brilliant, thank you.

21:07 As obvious as it is, I never really thought about that creepy-ass switch in Caesar’s tone.

I come back and watch this video every once in a while, when I'm feeling poor. It's a wonderfully made and thought-out analysis and it makes me cry pretty much every time

Some food for thought: in the TBOSAS book, when the bell went off and the games started, there was no instant death, instant action like we saw in the movie; in fact, most of the tributes ran away. But of course, no violence is boring to watch, right? So that’s not the way it was translated into film. Oddly disturbing when you think about it.

Win the games and you’re set for life. The American dream in a nutshell.

WHAH boo hoo baby. Season seven rules, especially to the dumpster fires of season one, five ESPECIALLY, and half of 4 and season 6. No one cares what you want or wanted, be a big girl... Fucking Gen Z man. #mememe