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i'd like to write an articulate post on the aspects of mockingjay part 2 that contributed to create an ultimately pleasurable viewing experience, but, screw that, i'm just gonna sit here and fangirl for a minute.

here is an accurate insight into my thought process while watching the movie: AHHHHHHHHHNOOOOOOHAHAHOOOOOOOOAWWWWAHHHHHHWHYYYYY*UNCONTROLLABLE SOBBING*

actually, that's what i thought i'd be feeling but in reality i was a lot more dead inside. i don't know if that was because i'm guttered that this franchise is coming to an end, but also i feel like mockingjay was anticlimactic. definitely not in the negative sense of the term, but more like there wasn't just one pivotal point that the film built up to. it was a roller coaster of ups and downs and i felt like i was just coasting along. even the end of the war didn't stir up a myriad of emotions. it happened and then something else happened and then something happened after that. the plot kept moving along, which overall was good because i never got bored (something that rarely happens)

my whole hunger games experience has been weird. i first read the books when i was like 13 and i received them for christmas. i use the term 'read' loosely; i devoured them, wrapping up the series in two days and emerging from the cocoon i built as a changed person.

around the time i finished, the trailer for the first film came out. i was very much excited. the hunger games was the first book-to-movie adaptation that i was really interested in. and, boy, i was not disappointed. i watched it at the cinema with friends and i loved it. i even studied it in grade 9. but between that and the release of catching fire, i didn't think much of the series. the trailer came out, i fell in the hype for a day and then i plateaued again. the movie came out, i obsessed for a week and then i moved on. that cycle repeated for the next two films. my life didn't revolve around the hunger games - or at least as much as other series i enjoy - but when something happened in its world, i remembered all over again why i fell in love with the series in the first place.

and i think a big part of that is because i still don't feel like i'm old enough to appreciate suzanne collins' work. the hunger games isn't like other YA dystopian franchises because it's much too real. maybe we're not chucking our children into arenas and forcing them to kill each other, but our universe isn't that far off from the one inside the pages. corrupt governments, imbalance of power, manipulation by the media. these are all things happening in our world.

and i just don't know how it's going to play out for us.

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