Starring Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler, 'The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes' captures what made The Hunger Games so compelling.
The Big Picture “I think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings,” says Lucy Gray Baird , a contestant in the 10th annual Hunger Games competition. “You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on the right side of that line.” In The Hunger Games franchise and its previous four movies, who was on each side of that line was fairly well-defined—naturally, with a few characters standing right in the middle.
After ten years, The Hunger Games hasn’t drawn the desired audience, and is trying new things out, including having a host for the show in Lucky Flickerman , and interviews that will let the audience get to know these tributes. Snow is assigned to District 12 tribute, Lucy Gray Baird, who gains attention after singing a song of resistance at the reaping ceremony. As Snow helps Lucy in the upcoming games, he starts to realize they have more in common than they thought.
But it’s hard to not get wrapped up in the more grandiose performances given by the more seasoned actors within The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Viola Davis is gleefully evil and over-the-top, as she tries to make The Hunger Games more successful. Honestly, if she wants those ratings to go up, she could just go ahead and put herself in front of the camera.
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