29:32 And of course that is part of the phenomena that The Hunger Games is part of but that's almost organic. By that I mean it's almost a spontaneous part of the cultural slide towards that direction now, the absurdity of The Hunger Games And what kind of – how would I say glitches it is the fact that they're trying to portray a society that is phenomenally destitute. And, of course, you get this situation where people are starving. Now if you ever take a look at a society where people are truly malnourished …
30:08 and people are starving at a regular level. You get so pretty well, it's beyond that you get very few people who are capable of athletic survival and the whole point of The Hunger Games logically now by the way is very good film as drama It deserves its attention but it's getting as a series of what I'll call Teenage Girl coming of age films. My favorite genre Yeah, there you go up there with crouching tiger and hidden dragon And it's about Empowerment for young ladies all of that is extremely important should be applauded now the reality of the survival part when they're tossing them all against each other in the ripoff of
30:54 Battle Royale from Japan, which is a series of manga or graphic illustrated novels that were turned into textual novels that ultimately got ripped off and turned into The Hunger Games. The whole point about these kids fighting each other is that in the Hunger Games the theme is they're choosing them spontaneously They literally have a lottery and so they're choosing all these kids so randomly that the overwhelming statistical chance of them getting anyone who's capable of walking a couple of miles, let alone somebody who is capable of putting up a fight is absurd. As a matter fact the whole point of The Hunger Games is that girl is their first volunteer! That is said in the film everybody else had been basically drafting so they were going to draft her virginal prepubescent
31:46 Yeah. younger sister, she would have been facing a shall we say front of enemies that would have been like that. Just statistically malnourished people who are cannon fodder now suddenly they bring all these people in and the people are interviewed before they go into there before they're thrown into the pit so to speak into the Coliseum into the fire into the contest
32:23 And all of these people are attractive, they're all charismatic. They all speak without a hitch. They all are able to express themselves and even express aspirations. Now what kind of aspiration would anyone express if they've been starving all their lives? Like you know hey what do you want to do with your future? People are interviewing them I mean first thing they'd be saying is oh Or oh, I hope someday. I get enough strength though where where I could get an erection up So there's enough you know so I can get laid You know instead of you know most the time I faint when I get one because I don't you know I'm so malnourished or something like that Yeah, yeah Then they throw them in to this kind of like training pool and they're like throwing knives They're hitting targets they're like, you know And people say well, you know, they've been out hunting
33:14 They've been foraging. They've been, you know, okay that would make sense if they if you have a cadre of people that are hunting and foraging for everybody else who's starving and they're doing this illegally as basically poaching If they're doing all this then The chances are the lottery is not going to pick them, but the movie makes it look as if the lottery somehow magically takes all the studs and all the Amazons out of these starvation camps and basically brings them in into a contest with each other when in reality. If they're doing the statistical lottery bid, they would be dragging in a bunch of starving half dying people.
33:52 And not only that, just the bizarre skills that they have. The one guy with the camouflage I mean, I love that part and you have to dwell on this because he's painting himself with a big camouflage and of course later on becomes a talking rock and shit. And the point is... Spoiler alert! That's no spoiler. God, that's like, you know You think your flashing back to HR Puffin stuff or something At any rate, with the talking tree. That's all. Anyhow the point with this guy is that he's painting himself and he says I used to be a cake maker and I used to put the frosting on cakes now cake is not all that unbelievable for our starving mass of people because cake is just lard so you know it'd be like Krispy Kreme donuts its 100%
34:37 to So, you know, I think that's a really good point. That was what she was referencing, the fact that it is so easy to take lard and distribute it. She couldn't understand why the distribution system had broken down. But then the question comes...