Nälkäpeli: Balladi Laululinnuista ja Käärmeistä - Recenzje

Through Snow’s journey, we’re reminded of the terrifying escalation that violence incites, and what we lose when apathy and power trample all.

...humanizes Coriolanus Snow for the sole purpose of emphasizing that a man, not some unknowable monster, was responsible for all of this.

Denna gång får vi följa president Coriolanus Snows tidiga år: från barndomen under krigstiden till sin plats i Capitols bestämmande toppskikt.

...it’s not actually a young adult (YA) action movie. It’s a fully committed character study with an extended action sequence in the middle.

...everything fans might want from a Panem revisit is here: state-enforced sadism, complex romance, lofty philosophical notions, wicked politics, genetically enhanced creatures, character names out of a Horrible Histories sketch.

...return to the YA dystopia in which kids are forced to hunt and kill each other for the entertainment of a privileged ruling class.

It certainly looks terrific.

“Snow always lands on top” is the longtime credo for Coriolanus and his family. The question of how it falls, and whether it sticks, makes “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” a surprisingly suspenseful prequel.