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The second trailer for The Hunger Games prequel: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, has been released. This trailer offers us another sneak peek at Hunter Schafer's debut on the big screen as Tigris Snow. While the Euphoria star had a voice role in an animated film last year, she has yet to appear in a feature film. But in this trailer, we get a brief glimpse of her character, Tigris Snow, accompanying her younger cousin, Coriolanus Snow, up some stairs.
The rest of the trailer mainly follows the younger Snow, who is the future bloodthirsty president of Panem, raising ethical questions about the nature of the Hunger Games themselves. The Hunger Games against each other in a flight to the death. The Games serve as punishment for a past rebellion against the wealthy Capitol. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes serves as a prequel to the main Hunger Games trilogy, based on Suzanne Collins ' 2020 novel of the same name.
The nearly three-minute-long trailer offers us limited plot details but more ethical questions about the Hunger Games. Snow's cousin, Tigris, appears to serve as the moral compass of the story. In one scene, she implores Coriolanus to imagine being the tribute from District 12 and asks him to care for her and value her.
Afterwards, Coriolanus volunteers to serve as a get her out of the Games. But the odds of that promise coming true seem to be getting slimmer and slimmer as the trailer progresses. At the end of the trailer, Dr Volumnia Gaul, the inventor of the Games, asks once again, "What are the Hunger Games for?" it appears as though Snow, now with a trimmed head and covered in a grey Capitol uniform, will have an entirely different answer, leading to a philosophical twist.
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes promises to deliver the visual splendour of the original movies with a philosophical twist, and the fact that we're here to support Schafer in her on-screen debut makes it a perfect holiday season viewing. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes will hit theatres on November 17.
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