Fr. Barron on the Hunger Games

There are SPOILERS in the video. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I have read the three books. I thought the books engaged in several issues that are very important for us to consider, including:

• tyranny of unfettered governmental control
• inherent dignity of every life
• food is a right, not a commodity
• our priorities, as a culture, are messed up
• a culture of death is a corrupt culture

Yet, some issues bothered me:

• ease at which the "good" guys start killing others in later books.
• no ultimate meaning to life is given - which ends in a kind of nihilism
• moral decision-making is poor to non-existent in some situations = relativism and utilitarianism

So, they aren't perfect books, but valuable ones. I think the future that is envisioned isn't out of the realm of possibility.