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Seeing the trailers took me back to Limey's post about UK/ US from an ex-pat's point of view.
The books/ films seem to be set in an American (Canadian) dystopia, but I bring much of my own experiences and vistas to anything I read.

I'm pretty sure the distances in the books are well represented in the films, but the scale of them and the building/ arena/ travelling floored me. With so much sky how could anyone be oppressed? Yes, I know it happens in real life. But I've never lived in China or Russia or any sweeping landscape where an iron fist can stretch over thousands of miles. It's unsettling.

Oh and they're all too young. I liked Hogwarts, with its combination of emptiness and crowded school-ness and really old people. Who might actually have wrinkles.

Still, just watched trailers and interviews is finally helping me get the names right. I think I've mentioned this before, but from the get-go I read Katniss as Kate-ness. Of course is wasn't, Gale misheards her names as Catnip when they meet. But I could shift it feom my mind. Ditto Petta being Petta.

Meh, because of having to watch Catfish with subtitles I am still baffled that Nev is called Neeve.

Finally (promise) the narrative of the hype really doesn't match what I read.
It's all about the ruling classes and the pampered elite and the downtrodden who are risig up. Whereas to me it's the have, the have-nots and permanant power struggles to stop things changing places. Class does not come into it.

Thought that with the US marketing of Shaun of the Dead. Slacker movie. Group of slackers have to try to save themselves. Wasters have to finally succeed at something or die. See how losers luck their way through a zombie attack. Hmmm. Just a zom-com-rom to me. With a few beers and spliffs.