Director Gary Ross has created an adaptation that is faithful in both narrative and theme, but he's also brought a rich and powerful vision of Panem, its brutality and excesses, to the film as well. His world building's fantastic, whether it be the Seam or the Capitol.

Katniss, the girl who was on fire!

The cat that Prim got hates me, I think partly because I tried to drown it.

I just don't want them to change me, if I'm going to die I still want to be me.

How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?

Desperate, yet no longer alone after that day, because we'd found each other.

Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet. Clearly, they didn't care about what would happen to the people who came after them.