Donald Sutherland Reveals The Real Meaning Of The Hunger Games

Chris Menahan | InformationLiberation
Nov. 27, 2015

Donald Sutherland, the actor who plays President Coriolanus Snow, a totalitarian dictator in the hit movie The Hunger Games just explained in no uncertain terms what the movie is about.

"...If there’s any question as to what it’s an allegory for I will tell you.

It is the powers that be in the United States of America.

It’s profiteers.

War is for profit. It’s not "to save the world for democracy" or "for king and country."

No, bullsh*t.

It’s for the profit of the top 10%, and the young people who see this film, must recognize that for the future "blind faith in their leaders," as Bruce Springsteen said, "will get you dead.”

Having watched the films, there's no question. The thirteen districts allude to the thirteen colonies, now the United States, while the capital run by a tyrannical dictator represents the Federal government. The films are a stirring rebuke of totalitarianism and how governments control their citizens through fear.

Sutherland is dead wrong though when he says the "top %10" benefit from war, it's more like the top .1%, which is the few hundred corporations who actually get the war contracts and the few hundred politicians who get more power and get to pose as everyone's protectors. Nonetheless, the idea the US' wars were to "save the world for democracy" is certainly bullsh*t.
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