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Originally Posted by Hawk
I think the first book is fine for a 12 year old, and the movie should be as well. There is violence and death, but there's no sex, and the violence is not overly gory in the first book and shouldn't be in the movie (though it is certainly sad).
However, the books get more violent as they go culminating in some fairly disturbing scenes in the third book as mentioned above. So for now, if you are worried about it, I'd just let her read the first and see the movie, and make her wait to continue on with the story. Even if you let her read them all, I'm sure she won't be overly scarred. As the poster above pointed out, most of us watched worse at that age (i.e. for me it was horror flicks like Friday the 13th, Halloween, etc.).
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The post Icarus posted by me was several months old. It's water under the bridge at this point, as my daughter is almost through all three books and we saw the movie last night.
She's really grown up in the last 6 months, so I let her read them. Odd how quickly she's transformed from little kid to thoughtful young adult. She and I have had several conversations about the content of the first book and now the movie.
In terms of the cheering, the scene that caused the cheers was especially odd/awkward IMO. Without giving much away, let's just say it was a scene when Katniss was in serious peril, got some help and there was a death. Crowd cheered for demise of the "bad guy" in this scene, but in this case the bad guy was just a pawn. Struck me that people watching weren't really considering what just happened....I mean, really happened. It was actually a sad commentary to be honest. I almost felt like I was in the Capitol crowd.