The Hunger Games: Catching Fire is the second movie of The Hunger Games series. The background of the story is dystopian future, where a totalitarian country named Panem was created from post-revolution of North America1. Early in the history, there are 13 districts, but District 13 led a rebellion against the Capitol (Panem Government) and lost. It led to the destruction of District 13, and punishment to all of its allies2. The punishment comes in a form of oppression and limitation. It also led to the creation of an annual event called, "The Hunger Games" where every district has to send 2 representatives to fight against each other in a specific setting. These tributes have to fight for their life by eliminating other tributes. The purpose of the creation of the Hunger Games, after all, is as the "commemoration" of the rebellion and devastation it created. .
From the movie, we can clearly see that there are two main actors in this movie. The first actor is the country of Panem as the national government where its interest lay on maintaining and asserting power upon the people. The Country of Panem in this movie is a totalitarian state. Totalitarian state itself is a state which its form of government has the centralized, total power of both public and private life of its people3. There are no democracy processes in this type of government. All its policies come from the leader of the government without any consent of its people. That is the reason why, in a totalitarian state, the people's rights could be easily forgotten and violated, since the right of state's and interests is above individual rights and interests. Everything the government does is fair in the eye of law, as long as it is for the effort to achieve the state's greater good. .
On the other hand, there are the people, who are using Katniss as their symbol, who want to break free from totalitarian regime created by the country of Panem.