Perfect-Blue on It's a Binary World 2.0 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/tags/perfect-blue/ Recent content in Perfect-Blue on It's a Binary World 2.0 Hugo en Mon, 30 Oct 2017 23:30:39 +0000 Perfect Blue https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2017/10/30/perfect-blue/ Mon, 30 Oct 2017 23:30:39 +0000 https://www.ericsbinaryworld.com/2017/10/30/perfect-blue/ <p>I used to hate <em>Hunger Games</em> because I considered it to be yet another example of America getting credit, fame, etc from another culture’s work; <em>Battle Royale</em> in this case. Eventually, I got the <em>Hunger Games</em> Trilogy from a Humble Bundle and read it, realizing that while the plots were the same in the abstract (kids are sent to an Island to kill each other in a dystopian future) they were different in the messages they were communicating to two different cultures. In the case of <em>Battle Royale</em> it was a response to a growing distrust of the younger generation that led to a novel in which the youngsters are sent to compete both to sow seeds of mistrust, but also as a punishment. In <em>Hunger Games</em> it’s less about being able to mistrust your best friends and more about mistrusting people from other states (or districts in the parlance of the book). That youth are used is more a function of entertainment value (kids at or near their physical peak) and the first book is almost more of a satire of reality TV with a lot more of the typical YA dystopian tropes coming in the second and third entries in the series.</p>

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