Thanks Nick. I never read the book, but I knew Hunger Games was true to the story just because, precisely, of the story. It was obvious the author meant for us to think about our future.
This is NOT an adventure story, although adventure is in it.
It's a story about freedom. About how none of us are truly free. About how our life depends so much on others; namely, our government. Freedom is an illusion.
Cloud Atlas, which was also a very good movie, more so than Hunger Games, was based on the same theme and one I'm very interested in lately due to how things are going around the globe. Persons are becoming poorer and poorer so that we can become more and more controlled. It almost would seem planned but I'm not a conspiracy person. Maybe it'll just happen from natural causes.
Stories always go to the extreme to make a point. It might not become as bad as in H.G., but it sure looks like we're headed that way with a marked difference between the rich and the poor and the disappearance (almost) of the middle class.