The Hunger Games is definitely pretty dark for a young adult series, seeing as how it involves children fighting each other to the death under the watchful eye of an evil government. However, if you watch the films or read the books as an adult, there are plenty of things you catch that most younger people won’t.

From the way in which the two main characters break the gender norms of a traditional Hollywood blockbuster to the commentary on PTSD and slavery, let’s take a look at some things in The Hunger Games that you only notice as an adult.

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All four movies pass the Bechdel Test | 0:00
Katniss and Peeta swap traditional gender roles | 1:05
Gale is a jerk | 2:11
The PTSD of the victors | 2:48
District 11 and American slavery | 3:38
Cinna actually sparked the revolution | 4:18
Finnick is actually nice | 5:06
President Snow’s poisonous past | 5:46

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