Reaction Paper on Catching Fire

Rasty M. Rastrullo

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Catching Fire Reaction Paper

            The film is a fictional one due to the fact that it doesn’t happen in the real life and the events only happened in the mind of the author and was relayed to us. Meanwhile, it also had a strong element of science because of the impact of the setting where it is in a time of a way advanced technology than what we have like the holograms, the awesome arena where they can manipulate it and other stuff which others we can say as not that far away until we develop it while others just seemed impossible. Considering this film a science fiction will not just because it didn’t really happen and it has science in it but because the science or let me redirect to technology in it does not yet exist or impossible to achieve like how a story with the concept of the internet can be considered sci-fi in the 80’s.

            Thinking about it, even in the ancient times, there were already records of social stratification where there is a very fine line between the statuses of the people and nobles gaining power over them just like how it was portrayed in the movie between the capitol and the 13 districts. In the present times, there is this continuing trend of globalization with the core-periphery system and in such situation the core represents the capitol and the districts represent the periphery. Also it shows how people “fight” to survive in this world and their will to do anything just to live. In the real world it doesn’t really mean a fight like to the death but the struggles and ways in gaining more like doing some acts that doesn’t really reflect to the person. It might also tell about the future of mankind where there is a chance that it could really lead to a rebellion due to an unstable system. But come to think of it is there a stable one? I think there could be ideally, but there is no such thing as an ideal world. But the future cannot be easily predicted as it only serves a slight chance for there are lots of twists and turns.

            For science and technology alone, it had succeeded very well due to such great advancements but considering the society including the 13 districts; it will be a different story.  Science and Technology if I’m not mistaken is supposedly for the betterment of mankind and an easier life. True, science there has benefited many people but it was only true in the capitol. Those in the districts have slightly felt the effects of their advancement. So if their technology is already all that great, why not extend it to others who also needs it so in their case, it has failed. I believe that the most major goal of science and technology is for the good of all people as we approach an ideal world.