Glenn Weldon

It becomes a fetish of a certain ideal of whatever.

And I'm applying subtext.

And the subtext for me is like, oh, British people colonizing an island violently.

I got it.

But that's not it.

They're doing something else, but they're actually beginning to miss now what's actually interesting about the adaptation, the things that they are trying to pull out or have pulled out for whatever reason.

Yeah, I think at the end of it, what you have is just a very Spielbergian, was that your term?

A very sanitized vision of it, plus a pedantic one.

Yes, this island is fascist, and yes, there's horrible murders going on with it, but gosh, it's nice.

You know, I'm more with Ned about the book than you are, but I really think that I'm just thinking about better things.

I'm thinking about things that do this already that's better.

I'm thinking about an entire culture that has embraced Hunger Games.

I wonder if our culture has actually passed by the resonant horror of this premise.

We look at the Lord of the Flies situation in Washington, D.C.,

This is my buddy, and this is my other buddy.

We're all white and strong, and we don't like intellectuals.

I got it.

In fact, I'm tortured by it.

In fact, it's a daily thing.

We are all piggy, aren't we?