THE HUNGER GAMES - Identify 3 sci-fi conventions and justify them

THE HUNGER GAMES



The Hunger Games contains typical and re-ocurring conventions from the Sci-Fi genre. The genre conventions could be categorised as narrative themes, character roles, iconography/mise en scene and technical conventions. The narrative is typical of the genre in many ways.

The narrative theme of Sci-fi is present in the Hunger games. However it also includes the genres of adventure and action. The Sci-fi theme also relates to the way anti-establishment is used in the film. The idea that the 12 districts are ruled by the government, however they are controlled and oppressed by it. This is shown in a few scenes, in particular, the scene when the video is shown to district 12, explaining what the hunger games is and why it takes place. It reveals past videos of the former rebellion, which led to the start of the hunger games. The 12 districts are no controlled by the government, as well as left to fend for themselves whilst the capital flaunts their wealth and ignores the poverty going on in the other districts. This would be seen as a typical Sci-fi convention, the idea that a group of powerful people (government) is in control and therefore creates the theme of a hegemonic society.