There's a popular series of movies (made after books) recently finished this year and although it's been a thing for about 4 years I started getting into them this time last year......Honestly, the Hunger Games series was the last movie I wanted to watch...I mean who wants to see kids killing kids? And dark, disturbing stuff like that? My brother tried to convince me to watch it but it took my mother joining in that actually persuaded me. It's a gripping series..... Especially for me and what I was going through, what the world is going through---there are some startling truths!
You'll have to watch it to see what you think but here are a few quick points for the first movie, Hunger Games.
1. Set up with 13 districts, each one providing and specializing in something for the Capitol. The Capitol area rich the districts poor...I feel in ways that our country/world is falling into this category as we all want to spread the wealth (it sounds good right? Everyone gets taken care of) when really you have extremes either rich or poor because your government sets what is fair and what's not.
2. The Capitol people were attracted to what was in style, always interested in what could be better, the next cool thing! Peeta even brought out that the showers made him smell like roses! We are soo that way today...just look at commercials.....we are told that their is always something better out there so if you aren't content don't worry we have the next best thing...We begin to be less and less thankful and more and more greedy.
3. The Capitol people loved violence. Have you seen what's on tv today? Nothing but violence and evil compares to what was on just 50 years ago. Really I'm ashamed of our society and how downhill it is going....yes there are good people just like the good people in this series.....but the capitol kids would watch the district kids fight each other to the death and think it was funny and entertaining to where they were numb to the whole horrible scenes! Just like when I watched the last part of mockingjay parents brought their kids to see this violence and promoted it?....I just feel that's very wrong. We need to promote whatever is pure, just, lovely, of good report (Phil. 4:8)
4. In order to get sponsors to help support them in the fights "games" the district kids would have to put on a show for the crowd and please the crowd. How often do we please the crowd if it means saving our own skins? How often do we just join in because it's the easiest thing to do! I was reminded again of scripture..."You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved." Matt. 10:22.
5. Peeta says to Katniss "I just don't want them to change me...turn me into something I'm not....If I'm gonna die I wanna be me." I don't want the pressures of the world to change me either. I don't want to turn into just another sinner falling into Satan's desires and basking in worldly pleasures for a season.....If I'm gonna die and I will some day. I want to die being the person that God created me to be! I don't want the world to destroy what God created me to be.
You can learn alot just by each character in the movie and some of the lines are just gripping like; "It's the things we love most that destroy us." What our world loves most is destroying us....it is!!! We love ourselves. We love sex. We love entertainment. We love violence. What do you love most? Now, I have an exception to that saying...I say "If we love Jesus the most, the world will never destroy us!" If God is for us, who can be against us?! Rom. 8:31
