The Long Walk: A Brutal Journey
It makes sense that the director of all but one of the Hunger Games films, Francis Lawrence, was chosen to direct The Long Walk . There are similarities between the stories and the type of world they are set in, but The Long Walk is even more intense in my opinion. Participation in the annual event is voluntary and sees one teenage boy selected from each state walk as long as it takes and at a minimum speed until only one of them is left standing. The winner receives a substantial cash prize and is allowed to ask for and receive one wish, within specified parameters. What happens to those who don't finish the long walk? Immediate execution. High stakes to say the least. Something about The Long Walk that stood out from the start is how the audience is thrown right into the world and narrative. You don't ever really get a break from what happens in the movie either. The setting is a simply executed, but effective dystopian/totalitarian society. Almost everyone in America is li...