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i always see people make the parallel between katniss and her mother when katniss gives up at the end of catching fire but no one ever mentions this parallel between how they start healing

Something that caught my eye while watching The ballad of songbirds and snakes is the use of the low-angle shot in Coriolanus' scenes. This kind of shot can be used to convey power and strength. I think it's an interesting way to portray how Snow feels superior to everyone else.

But there are also some scenes where the opposite happens, using a high-angle shot. For example, during Lucy Gray's reaping, and when he's watching the games at the studio.

I think this contrast represents both his need and desire for control, and the realization that before the Capitol (in the form of Gaul, the games and the government) he is pretty much powerless.

It's in the last scenes of the woods where we have the most extreme low-angle shots. And I think it's funny that, as much as he puts himself above everyone and everything (on top you could say), the birds he so much despises will always be above him.

the ache of nostalgia

Catching Fire is a very funny book

No but it's the way Katniss saves Peeta by telling him to stay with her and then Peeta saves Katniss by refusing to let her go.

He keeps his word. And she knows her Peeta is really back, and with him returns the hope he had given her years ago when she was starving to death and he tossed her bread.

So when she's back in 12 and there's nothing in the way of her ending her life, she holds on because deep down she knows Peeta will come back and stay with her like always. And he does.