Aquela que tá olhando pro céu 15/07/2024
They brought hope back to life
What a way to tell the story of a revolution, through the eyes of a broken, scared and young-matured child. Katniss Everdeen. Having watched the movies that so beautifully (yes no perfectly) depicts the trilogy, I'd read Hunger Games already knowing a few important things about the plot, and the essence of the history. Even so, I was still dazzled by the hurtful, brutal and vile tale about a world in wich children are forced to murder each other to make a point of which relevance is to show them, and others, how impotent they are.
Take a normal, gentle and warm person. Then, force them to go against any good judgement inherent of them. Make them turn into something they're not. Rule them to the bones. Make them kill innocents in order to survive.
Turn good people into monsters. No, turn them into mutts.
The aftermath is what surrounds Katniss' world. The constant fear. The absence of hope. The hunger, placid happiness, indulgent colours.
Only, in spite of the constant horror of the world she lives in, is not the deadly Government that mainly shakes our dear Everdeen. She's broken by her lost.
And then, we met this 16 years old girl, fighting with a bow and a arrow to keep her and her family alive by going to the woods and hunting. The trauma of her father's lost aways bearing on her, making her doubt goodness in people. In this kind of world, where innocent suffer in the hands of the powerful, what is there to live for, to hope for, anyway?
But she hasn't given up. She's got the strength she needed by the boy with the bread. And then, a companion hunter with the same fire and hatred that she has taken after the lost.
She's got this fire within her, a warm light. Though shattered, still giving her sense. Her goodness is still there, aways being tamed by the gentleness of others. Aways having an eye for beauty, though a clouded one.
And she volunteeres with no second thought. Her life for her matters less then the life of her loved ones. Her happiness is the second matter. Prim's, mom's and Gale's comes first.
And it was when hope was no more and Katniss was about to become another piece in their games, that he brought her to her senses. Peeta, the gentle, warm-hearted boy, so witty and wise with words. So peace and hopeful. He, who made her see that what really matters is to keep loyal to yourself, enduring hard times and never loosing your capacity of being conscious and doing what's right. Saving others, willing to sacrifice yourself. He, who taught her love, just like her father.
Who've always loved her, ever since he saw her singing with her two braids in school.
In stead of murdering each other, they worked together to save their lifes.
And even though by the end not everything was concluded and so many questions had risen up, one thing was certain:
They, together, had played a major role in bringing hope back to life.