The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes ( FULL LENGTH REACTION)
Added 2025-12-06 14:54:44 +0000 UTC
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“Fuck y’alls flag” has me cracking up because we said it AT THE SAME TIME 😂
AnnieAreYouOhhkay
2026-01-28 18:52:01 +0000 UTCDeep thoughts, thank you for your response! I think that deep down Snow understood that Lucy Gray left because he lied to her, even though he promised not to, and he didn't try to justify himself, which is why he said to Katniss, ‘Let's agree not to lie to each other.’ He may have seen Lucy Gray in her. Although Lucy Gray's character is more like Peeta's. Lucy Gray did not set Snow up or provoke him. The snake ended up under the scarf by accident. But Snow made it all up - that Lucy Gray wanted to kill him. Anything to justify his actions and his desire to return to the Capitol after he found the gun. I don't like how the director shot the scene in the forest hut; it confuses viewers and makes them think that Lucy Gray provoked Snow. In the book, this is not the case at all. Snow used Sejanus and envied him because he had everything that Snow had lost because of the war.
Alina B
2025-12-27 17:43:43 +0000 UTCEvery time you thought Snow was really a good guy, I cackled. 😆However, I believe he sent the Jabber Jay back because he thought his friend’s father would just pay to get him out of trouble.
SocoGirl5000
2025-12-25 23:19:42 +0000 UTCAll the confusion on the plot aside, my favorite thing was seeing all the call backs to Katniss. Or rather Katness’ call backs to Lucy Gray. The songs for one, but the bow really got me.
TiffK83
2025-12-12 04:19:51 +0000 UTCI think Snow meant to use the jabberjay recording to try and help his family. It happened after his conversation with Tigris where she told him they’d had to move but not to worry. Maybe Snow thought he could bring Lucy to district 2 with him but who knows? He messed it all up in the end. It’s also why he could never make himself believe that Katniss truly loved Peeta, he thought she was just using him. I do think he believed in the end though.
Devon Michelle
2025-12-11 19:40:52 +0000 UTCSING girl, SING.
Jessica
2025-12-07 06:55:52 +0000 UTCThat's interesting. So you think he killed her right as she wanted to leave the House and the whole scene in the woods with the snake was just an Illusion of his mind because he didn't want to admit to himself what he had done?
Myra
2025-12-07 05:34:12 +0000 UTCSnow was unhinged at the end. My interpretation of the ending (at least in the book) was that they both realised that Lucy was the last loose end at the same time. That he did kill her, and when he was talking about dumping the cloth in the lake (with the guns inside) it was actually her body wrapped in the cloth. And then the guns, of course
Chantal
2025-12-07 04:34:49 +0000 UTCDo you plan to read the books? I think you should :-)
Aleksandra Makohoń
2025-12-07 03:10:00 +0000 UTCSpoilers for the book here but it really does make it clearer how paranoid and evil Snow really is. And how much he sees other people as pawns. He never really cared for Sejanus, there’s a part in the book where I think Sejanus’ mom tells Snow that he’s Sejanus’ only friend and Snow thinks to himself “how sad, to have no friends”. But he sure let them think that because it benefits him to have his rich parents like him/owe him. Same with Lucy Gray, he saw her as his property and his way to get the money he needed to keep up the appearances he was desperately trying to portray. He’s constantly asserting that she’s his songbird, his tribute, his girl, and not in a genuine “I care for her” way, it’s very “how dare another man look at her, how dare she have a past or autonomy, how dare she not trust me even though I’m using her and lying to her” he fantasized about a life with her when he thought he would have no choice but to run and abandoned that thought the second he thought he had a chance at Capitol life again. He had every chance to make better choices but let his fear of judgment and desire for power rule and corrupt him
hamhandsam
2025-12-07 02:38:53 +0000 UTCI got this in the movie even if I didn't know the book yet. And his actions made totally sense for me. So I hope it just tells that I know how dark characters work and not that I'm psychotic. 😅 There were always two sides pulling at him and you can see that his grandma seeded the fear of beeing betrayed in him while Tigris wanted him to believe in the good in people. All he thinks he learned about how people really are due to his experience with Lucy is found in the dialoques between him and Katniss. And Katniss is not just the villain because she could destroy the games and start a Rebellion but she could also destroy his sight of the would and his whole believe-system which he somehow uses to justify his deeds.
Myra
2025-12-06 21:02:52 +0000 UTCI think its really funny that one of the biggest weaknesses of this adaptation is us not quite understanding snows motivation towards the end. Like what exactly tipped him over to the darkside, when this entire movie is his villain origin story. You'd think they would try to make that part the most clear lmao. I do genuinely like this adaptation though. The funny thing to me is that snow as a character is such a clever manipulative and unstable man that without his exact monologuing nobody can figure out what the hell he's thinking or why he does certain things (ie selling out sejanus) also you hit the nail on the head with he didnt want to be hanged for simply knowing sejanus- basically he felt forced to betray him bcz if he didnt he knew if sejanus was caught then HED be the one punished cz he doesnt have the money to save himself like sejanus and his family does. He even says that in that scene- how Sejanus is too privileged to understand the risk of what he's doing, how by snow associating with him he's automatically putting Snow in danger too. So he sells him out before the rebel plan even has a chance to blow up in his face. It's like tattling on your friend before the teacher can bust him lmao like its such a paranoid and unstable reaction that to us as viewers, it doesn't make sense how he'd do that AND ALSO genuinely feel sorry about his death and remember sejanus as a friend- WHEN HES THE ONE WHO BETRAYED HIM- like it feels inconsistent, but thats not a failure of the movie or even the writing, its the fact the writing of Snow is so good that its hard for us as readers to put ourselves in the shoes of SUCH a narcissistic manipulative asshole lmao. Like sure we empathise with Snow a little bcz hes just trying to survive the capitol right? Classic rags to riches, similar to the ppl from the districts in that HE was once an underdog too and you can really see that here, but what makes him different from the district characters is he has literally no CARE for the districts or anyone, but himself. Thats why its so fascinating to have these scenes without his inner dialogue, it just doesn't make sense to us (and it shouldn't lol) bcz WE'RE not psychotic enough to empathise with those motivations.
Gami_N' Chaos Kids
2025-12-06 20:45:20 +0000 UTC
