"24 young men and young women (ranging from ages 12-18) stand on pedestals at the beginning of a competition and await a countdown, when the counter reaches 0 the young people run for a large collection of supplies and attack each other and 12 of them are killed: we see blades slashing and covered with blood, we see bodies lying motionless with blood stains and smears on their clothing and flesh, a young woman falls and a young man stands over her with a blade until another young woman throws a blade into his back, and a young boy is hacked with a large blade and we see blood spurt onto nearby objects (we do not see the boy)." (IMDB.com)Kids killing kids.
Ok, in case that isn't enough of a reason, let me give an even more pressing reason.
The production company spent $100,000,000 (yes, that is correct, one hundred million dollars) to make a movie showing kids killing kids.
Have we gone so far away from Christian discernment that we are glad to pay money to see this? By paying to see the movie, we become the evil "Capitol" that the movie makes out to be the bad guy, celebrating the deaths of children because their deaths make our hero more victorious.
Why are we shocked when real kids kill other kids?
I am grieved that I know Christian parents who are taking their children to see this. No, I am more than grieved, I am frustrated and angry beyond belief.
The culture of death has taken on new life with this movie. In stark contrast, the movie October Baby is opening in theaters this weekend. Following the story of a girl who discovers that she was the survivor of an abortion attempt, the tagline for the movie is "Every life is beautiful."
One of the taglines for the Hunger Games is "May the odds be ever in your favor."
It is the tale of two tales. Theism vs. humanism. Life vs. death. Hope vs. despair. Victory vs. defeat. True heroism vs. false heroism. Wisdom vs. foolishness. The goodness of God vs the evil of humans.
May God come to judge us, and cleanse us of our unrighteousness.
jc
2 comments:
Kind of choked me up.
I just starred this post in my Google reader in case I need to send this to somebody uninformed enough to see this thing. Hope I won't need it too much. Yikes.
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