When Katniss and Peeta visited District 11, why did that man in the crowd get killed simply for just whistling Rue's tune and saluting? How would the government see that as a threat?
When Peeta got saved from the monkeys by that random girl, he said she was a morphling......what is that? I don't recall anyone mentioning a morphling in this or the last film.
When Katniss and Peeta visited District 11, why did that man in the crowd get killed simply for just whistling Rue's tune and saluting? How would the government see that as a threat?
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This is based in an incident in the previous movie. After Rue was killed, Katniss saluted her body and her gesture was caught onscreen. The District 11 were outraged by Rue's senseless death and started a riot, at the same time making a hero of Katniss and her salute. From the Peacekeepers' point of view, the combination of Katniss, Rue, and the salute the next year was explosive and likely to provoke another riot and so they were ready to react ( or over-react).
When Peeta got saved from the monkeys by that random girl, he said she was a morphling......what is that? I don't recall anyone mentioning a morphling in this or the last film.
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Earlier in CATCHING FIRE, when Heymitch is telling Kat and Peeta about the other tributes, he said two of the competitors were no threat because they were morphlings who "self-medicated" themselves ( abused drugs). The girl was one of the addicts he mentioned. Admittedly this would be difficult for a non-reader to keep track of. In the books this is clearer because Katniss has a friend whose mother is also a "morphling", so the reader has been accustomed to the idea.
When Katniss and Peeta visited District 11, why did that man in the crowd get killed simply for just whistling Rue's tune and saluting? How would the government see that as a threat?
When Peeta got saved from the monkeys by that random girl, he said she was a morphling......what is that? I don't recall anyone mentioning a morphling in this or the last film.
Ah right, that makes a lot of sense. I've only watched these two films once and obviously I missed a few things. Thank you both for clearing it up for me :)
shareBTW: I forgot to mention that - without going into spoiler territory - it's possible that morphling may be discussed in a bit more detail in Mockingjay Part 2...
shareAn extra note about "morphling". The book implies it's very expensive and so does not present a big drug problem to Panem in general. However, all the victors receive huge pensions as a reward for winning, so the victors in 6 are (unfortunately in the long run) able to buy the drugs.
As the other poster mentioned, morphling had a significant role in the latter part of book 3 ( unless that subplot is cut from the movie). To avoid spoilers, I won't say more.
Thank you for not spoiling anything :) I watched the first film the other day thinking it wasn't gonna be all that but now I'm hooked!
I have one other question -
When the tributes were called upon to be evaluated for their chosen skill/talent, Katniss made that dummy into Seneca Crane and hanged him. What was the point she was trying to make to the new Game Master? Do we know what actually happened to him or is it just speculation? Again, I only watched it once and it was a rental so I can't go back and watch it again :)
What was the point she was trying to make to the new Game Master?
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Basically she was saying "**** you" (she was expecting to be killed anyway and saw no reason to be polite to the Masters) Ironically, the Game Master ( Plutarch) turned out to be on her side and was amused by her demonstration.
Do we know what actually happened to him or is it just speculation?
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According to the first movie he was forced to eat the poison berries. In the second movie Plutarch (in the early dance scene) says he's dead but doesn't give details. Basically Katniss was stringing him up as an insult to the Game-Masters, not as a literal representation of how he was killed.
I think that when she saw the image of Rue on the floor, she realized she was a toy for these people, especially Plutarch. Like a mouse in a cage, and they were poking her with a stick to see her reaction. She strung up Crane to tell Plutarch to watch himself, toying with and underestimating Katniss got Crane killed. Snow told her as much when he told her Crane SHOULD have blown her to bits after she revealed the berries, but he allowed her to play out the strategy... and subsequently made a fool of the Capitol.
shareI think that when she saw the image of Rue on the floor, she realized she was a toy for these people, especially Plutarch. Like a mouse in a cage, and they were poking her with a stick to see her reaction. She strung up Crane to tell Plutarch to watch himself, toying with and underestimating Katniss got Crane killed. Snow told her as much when he told her Crane SHOULD have blown her to bits after she revealed the berries, but he allowed her to play out the strategy... and subsequently made a fool of the Capitol.I like this explanation.
No, your memory is correct. Both Katniss and Peeta receive 12s and Haymitch says it was to put a target on their backs, "so that the other Tributes would have no choice but to go after you" (paraphrasing).
shareI think that when she saw the image of Rue on the floor, she realized she was a toy for these people, especially Plutarch. Like a mouse in a cage, and they were poking her with a stick to see her reaction. She strung up Crane to tell Plutarch to watch himself, toying with and underestimating Katniss got Crane killed.I just rewatched that scene and I have an addition to submit for consideration:
An additional remark on the scene: notice that Plutarch smiles after Katniss exits. He realizes that a girl who is brave enough to pull a stunt like that with her life on the line, would be a very effective Mockingjay.
shareThey mentioned it briefly also after gale got flogged and was brought back to katniss's house. They put him on the table and prim says "he needs some morphling"
shareMorphling is a clever derivative of "morphine" so he's basically saying that they're heroin addicts.
I suspect they'd have happily sat up a tree until it was all over. Possibly slept through the whole event.
If I lived in a dystopian future, I'd probably be doing the same. Talk about depressing! Especially if you've got to do withdrawals in the actual arena. That would make them easy targets!
Somehow I think the withdrawal of the drug was the last thing Snow was worried about.
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Obviously not. It was just an observation as to how they'd have got their drugs in the arena, nothing to do with Snow.
I know that morphine withdrawal kicks in about 24 after the last dose, and it turns you into a bit of a vegetable. So that was just my train of thought.