The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1

This film has, to put it mildly "enjoyed" remarkably mixed reviews. It presents like the middle episode of a trilogy, with an inconclusive and unsatisfying ending.  But as for the rest, I am going to go along with the analysis from the Slate Culture Gabfest. Clearly this is a feminist film, with a strong, empowered female figure at its center. The question is, do we want our daughters to grow up to be girlfriend/love interest or the protagonist. My daughters are both protagonists, and I would wish for nothing less for everyone else's. Jennifer Lawrence turns in a good performance as does the regrettably late Philip Seymour Hoffman. There's a lot of death, destruction and Donald Sutherland, but some moments of hope as well.