Rating the Carnage: The Hunger Games's Violence Solution
Rich Juzwiak · 03/23/12 11:24AM![](http://d20hvt89h2l7r8.cloudfront.net/17hc7hwa2cgypjpg/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800.jpg)
"The real sport of the Hunger Games is watching the tributes kill one another," says protagonist Katniss Everdeen in the first book of Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy. The real sport of The Hunger Games, Gary Ross's compulsively entertaining cinematic adaptation, is breezing by those murders without offending delicate sensibilities.