Mockingjay Part 2 Movie Review

Freakin' awesome movie poster with a
mockingjay and the mockingjay

So tell me, this was ages ago wasn't it? I did in fact post this ages ago too, you know, for the record. I did so on Wordpress though as Blogger and had a fight. (It was my fault I admit.)

Anyways, thought I should share it here for many reasons. Like:

1. I'm too lazy.

Woke up at 5:30 am.

Drove for three hours in a bus.

Asked for directions, and walked with an elderly couple through the city.

Drove another bus for twenty minutes.

Wandered slightly aimlessly through a few streets.

Waited five hours with my sister and cousin at the apartment.

Waited two hours and a half at the movie theatre.

All to watch Mockingjay Part 2.

If you think your life as a fangirl is hard, I don't think you've lived in a small pueblo in the middle of nowhere for the past 6 years. Becase that's hard. Trust me.

There are no movie theatres, no bookstores, not even libraries. The only way I have access to anything is through internet, and I was not going to watch the last movie of the THG Trilogy in a pirate version on my sister's computer. So what was the alternative? My stepfather paying for me to go two cities over with my sister to watch it on the 27th. So that is exactly what I did.

Now proceeding to the actual review and leaving my mini rant behind- it was fantastic.

What I think is worth poiting out, is how they didn't try to soften up anything as to not make the audience uncomfortable or scare them away with the brutality of everything. They showed the Capitol and Snow, as psychotic and cruel as they were in the books, even if it did mean hurting my ears with the stupid explosion near the end... The message was clear, the same one Suzanne was trying to portray, those who were in the current position of power would kill your children without a second thougth, if it meant they would stay there.

Oh and I cried, I am not ashamed. Tears rolled down my eyes in various parts. Sobs threatened to escape my mouth in many scenes. But the mutts surrounding me in the theatre room would not understand, but only judge. So I held them back.

I liked what they did with the epilogue, it was nice. It was also a big part of it, I think, to show that it didn't go "It has all ended now, we shall forget it and live happily ever after," because the situations through wich they went through were not easy. They, like everything else, left a mark on them. But they, like everyone else, kept moving forward. And that's just as important.

I don't know if this is considered a review or not. The actors did a literally perfect job, Buttercup was great (I know it wasn't an actual cat), the parts they tweaked were okay and I just... the waiting was worth it. The waking up, traveling for hours towards I city I don't know... it was all definitely worth it.

I am a proud tribute, at all we've accomplished. Four films, three books, two characters, one story. One message.

Stay alive.

This whole world, could not have come to a better closure than with this film. Maybe I'll write fanfiction now or something. But for now, if you have followed this series and are a hardcore tribute as well- by all means get to this as I did.

And may the odds be ever in your favor.

- Vanessa Z. M.