Capital citizens don't actually speak with a British accent. It's more like a toned down version of the Mid-Atlantic accent, as heard in old movies.

Thanks for the great analysis!!! This series is very important to me, and it’s such a shame how overlooked the core themes and the many, many political messages are. (Also I love your monstera! It looks very happy and cute)

i’ve always thought the hunger games is deeply allegorical, it’s meant to comment on contemporary issues through an exaggerated lens, but as someone mentioned in the comments it’s funny no one bothered to critically apply post-colonialism to the text, especially when ‘district’ and ‘colony’ are basically interchangeable in the story, thank you for sharing !!!

The classical music playing over your voice is surprisingly distracring- i can't focus on what you're saying at all! 😅

I remember 😆

I remember watching a video saying that fire nation resemble imperial japan and water trube is like the native. I never made the comparison of one group being colonise and the other doing the colonising omg….

I remember very distinctly when I traveled abroad a year to Chile (from Germany) to work in a pretty empoverished area (a whole other in retrospect problematic dynamic) that one of my first thoughts was when I started to politicize that it feels like I came from the capitol to the districts. And that maybe I was part of the capitol and the world I came from was the problem. This whole year influenced me deeply and politicized me pretty radically and I'll hold Suzanne Collins always dear to make my mind open for these associations. Now many years later and way better informed about postcolonial theory I still think the story slaps!

You look beautiful in the second outfit. Like something about the cut looks really angelic on you

As someone from a third world country. I find the books pretty accurate on how it is to live here. We are more likely to have military dictatorships in our countries, it happens a lot. They had killed a lot of people, sometimes because they speak up for our rights and sometimes they woul kill you just because it was funny to them. It's very sad and it's actually crazy how a lot of people here actually defends these evil dictators and votes to put these people in a powerful position

Hunger Games to releasing what true horrors capitalism, imperialism and white supremacy has on us The heavily policed district 11 with large population are black or brown African Americans. . . Like.. AGRICULTURE👁️ 👁️ The pushed out purposely isolated and letting the system it built take its course…. dying for absolutely nothing because no one is watching. 🗣️THE WAY KATNISS IS DESCRIBED IN THE BOOKS NOT ONLY HER BUT HER FATHERS LOOKS CONTRAST TO HER MOM AND PRIM!!!!!!!! His. knowledge. of.living WITH nature!!! Knowledge of hunting, roots, not only hunting but how to create own bows and arrows 😵‍💫😵‍💫

You look so ethereal

Thank you for this brilliant take! I recently reread the books and felt it was so gut wrenching, because when I think of so many conflicts right now, I see the parallels and Katnisses perspective shows us so much the human side of these forces that we often only perceive as something like an abstract concept if we dont experience it ourselves. It is so relevant and important, I wish everyone would read that book and really take in all the considerations you pointed out so clearly.

Thank you! I Iearned a lot in this video and never thought about colonialism this way before. I never realised I could be inside of a single nation, and it makes me reflect on our own gouvernements and their behaviors towards their people Also, love your style 🌟 Love from France 💖

fantastic video and analysis!!!!!

Been searching for this analysis on KZfaq for three days. 😄

as a Greek person, I am so embarrassed and disappointed at how deeply misogynistic Greek mythology is. I think the value and "intrigue" of ancient Greek myths are wildly overblown by people in the western world. Let's progress forward and stop expressing reverence for misogyny fanfiction ❤️

Its a movie against communism. Not against colonialism

This is so insanely relevant. I can't help but draw parallels between the hunger games and so many current national and international conflicts, like Palestine, Sudan, DRC and so many more. The isolation of districts, the exploitation, the othering, I can't even begin to describe the similarities. Even when we talk about the US, it's not hard to see he connections.

I pity you and anyone who has been in relationships that have caused them to view the world in this way

Amazing!!

There's no war but class struggle! Power atracts the corruptable, and it doesn´t hold them captive of their responsabilities. That's where we have to rebuild our societal systems.

I love Chopin and his Nocturnes, but the background music is loud enough to be distracting 😢

We never reached post colonization. Its still going

Places like Scotland for centuries had colonial control, and had their useless rebellion's, but did not come into their own until they maned up by upskilling. The fastest places to uptake on human potential regardless of resources well do better for themselves, and their nation's. We have access more, and more to the key to productivity that is information conveyed by our devices to effect world around us, and make it better ourselves because no one else can do it.

I mean the video is not bad, but I feel lke it doesnt relly add any interesting new pov's, all of these things are either glaringly obvious for anyone with the tiniest media literacy/critical thinking or directly stated in the books

Side note: the puking to eat more is likely a reference to the Roman Vomitorium. They did the exact same thing.

Saw a video where someone actually laid out where the districts would be in terms of the states. I noticed immediately what the author was getting at. Realistically. MOST if not all dystopian fiction is a some shit that already happened to women and non white people. Mfs get mad when you say it, but everyone loves the hunger games and the handmaid’s tale.

Given that this came out two years ago, you may never get a chance to read this comment, but I wanted to thank you for your thoughtful and well supported thesis.

Okay good one Facebook 😂 friends and I was just in group chat less than 30 minutes ago talking about how ppl who watched the movies think hunger games has a more different meaning than the books. And how we are tired of ppl with no media literacy making twitter think pieces on why hunger games is “shallow” Next time ima just link this video as my rebuttal The one that bothers me most is when ppl complain about how only 1 major industry is produced by each district Without acknowledging that by doing this the capitol keeps everyone dependent on their dictatorship

Love this! It's especially important to remind readers with Snow's origin story becoming a conversation. The guy didn't just turn evil because he wanted power, he always had that coloniser mindset embedded in him from childhood that prevented him from fully supporting a resistance against his government. People act shoked that he could turn evil after saving Lucy's life but in the real world, the most colonial minded people will still do acts of kindness every now and then. So thank you for your video because people are way too comfortable stripping the HG universe of its real world parallels when they're inevitable.

Fantastic explanation and breakdown.

I always thought that when I first read the series prior to the films that Panem echos American colonialism. I later come to the fact that it is applied across the world. The districts provide services that benefit the capital. Just like the western hemisphere colonies produced cash crops that elevated specific European empires.

I would say I'm in general on the side of, "We can acknowledge the bad, take what we admire, create new meaning or celebrate what we like without ignoring the glaring issues." In general, aside from the Riordanverse, I tend to not be a fan of most pantheons in terms of the attitude towards the feminine and gender as a whole.

You are fabulous. I am a rabbit named Hestia's pet human, and I was glad she came with the name since goddess of hearth and home was the main Greek god I related to.

I wish the algorithm had pointed me to your videos when they were first coming out!

This video feels very important right now.

Yes! This is one aspect that spoke to me when I read the books the first time and it's wonderful to hear you speaking about it.

Girl the instant use of Wikipedia is SUCH a discredit to this video. Any source that can change everyday is not a good bases for definitions 😅😮

girl you're stunning

heyy you could change up the background musics when you move from a video part to the other, itd help w focus

thank you for your work! awesome video <3

i’ve been waitin for this one.. TURN IT UP ‼️

I just rewatched all the movies and was really struck by how relevant a lot of the themes feel today. I do think the book handles a lot of it better, but I also don't think the movies are the failure they are sometimes portrayed to be when it comes to that lens

As someone from a third world country, that's exactly what it's always felt like. The economical and sociopolitical dinamics between countries has been the same for centuries, colonialism hasn't ended.

I don’t know if I want to be you, or be with you😍🫵🤍

I agree with your statement, but I think the main dynamic is not about a post-colonial perspective, since colonialism above all is when an alien invader exploits a native population that makes you a foreigner in your own land, but rather about class conflict. The similarity is to the French revolution, Russian Revolution and of course the slave revolution in ancient Rome led by gladiators. It's almost like imagining ancient Rome in the age of mass communication and how it can be used as a weapon.

Thank you so much for this super interesting and educational video!! I'm neck-deep in hunger games content, but this is by far the most interesting perspective I've come across

what i remember loving about katniss was how matter of fact her language was. i was 10 years old when reading her pov but it was so easy to understand her trauma and motivations as a young girl trying to survive and keep her family alive.