The Hunger Games movie is hot right now – for good reason. I read the Hunger Games series last year, so I’ve been salivating for the release of the movie. It was amazing!
As an avid book lover, I applaud when a book is turned into a movie without being slaughtered. In fact, it was done quite elegantly. As a woman, I am all for any book or movie with strong female characters.
There is always a danger that a movie studio will take a perfectly good strong female lead and make her simper and flash her boobs. That didn’t happen. They also didn’t make her masculine, either. She managed to be pretty and strong, compassionate and lethal, vulnerable and intelligent.
Why is that so important? It is one thing to go swimsuit shopping for yourself and discover that almost every single suit is cut too high in the leg and too low in the front, but it is vastly more depressing when the same thing happens when you go swimsuit shopping for your toddler girl. Females are blasted, almost from birth, with the idea that the way they look is more important than who they are.Any time a woman is portrayed in film as a real person, I want to cheer.
I won’t be able to let my daughter see the Hunger Games for about 10 years, but I hope there will be many other movies before then with strong female characters, heroines even, that can be looked up to and idolized, for good reasons, not for their cleavage, sense of style, or how they do their hair.
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