Comments on: Hunger Games & Social Conversations https://www.drtimgillespie.com/hunger-games-social-conversations/ Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:54:24 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Timothy E. Gillespie, DMD https://www.drtimgillespie.com/hunger-games-social-conversations/#comment-15 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:54:24 +0000 http://drtimgillespie.wordpress.com/?p=281#comment-15 In reply to Holly Hooper.

Interesting–I also remember feeling that way when I was 18–just over 30 years ago. After having watched the war in Vietnam come to an end and the Watergate scandal play out on TV, we were still dealing with the nuclear threat from the Soviet Union and the Iran hostage crisis was still fresh on our minds–a lot of scary stuff out of our control.

Succeeding to stay true to yourself in a morally-twisted world is probably something that really resonates with the teenage fans as well….

Thanks for your feedback!

]]> By: Holly Hooper https://www.drtimgillespie.com/hunger-games-social-conversations/#comment-14 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:18:47 +0000 http://drtimgillespie.wordpress.com/?p=281#comment-14 My daughter, who is 18, did not read the books. She just saw the movie the other night. She gave the same comments as you, almost exactly. She described the movie as disturbing. She said it was something that our society could somehow fall into and she found that scary. She said she felt like she needed to better learn to survive and make things that are basic to survival. She came away thinking alot about how technologically bent our youth is today and how we have lost the art of teaching kids basic survival skills. She felt that was an important subplot to the movie.

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