In Review: Mockingjay Part 2

Fuaad Ajaz, News Editor

As more of Panem turns into rubble, Katniss Everdeen and her group of people from various districts run, hide, and sneak around the capitol.

All the characters in this movie were more than unusual, which put a good twist. From the mentally ill Peeta, to the dying President Snow all of the things happening to the characters made the movie.

When the waves of tar were plummeting down towards the group and Peeta grabs Katniss and tries to throw her in the tar was where we truly saw how mentally ill he was because one minute he loves katniss and the next he hates her which pretty much sums up that he is bipolar.

Another thing that there was a lot in this movie was death. Finnick, Snow, Coin, and the beloved Prim were just a few who die in the movie. But, the way these people die could have been portrayed better, like Prim’s. The way Prim died was just really bad. I mean she was there then gone. The scene would have been better if they showed Prim helping the kids and Katniss hugs her then Prim dies when Katniss gets on to the grounds of the president’s mansion.

The leader of the rebellion, President Coin of District 13,  in part one and two acts like this kind figure that everyone looks up to.  However, the two-faced lady isn’t really trying to change anything about Panem except being the president and starting a new hunger games, where instead of using children from the districts she wants to use the children of the capitol.  

Katniss Everdeen who has been Katnip, the girl on fire, and now she is the Mockingjay which is basically the poster child for the rebellion. In this last movie Katniss had that tough personality mixed in with the nurturing mom-like personality. When she opened Peeta’s handcuffs you could see in her eyes that she almost felt sorry for him, but then when those lizards popped out she was ready to fight. The movie had a good balance of action and romance.

In the end when the audience finds out that Haymitch and Effie were a low key couple was probably one of the funniest scenes in the movie, the second being when the Everdeen family cat Buttercup comes back.

Overall, the Mockingjay had all the odds in her favor and left as a victor in her last hunger games.