Headscratchers / The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2

• Where does Effie get all the fancy outfits?
  • In the last part of the movie, she must have access to her old outfits from the Capitol.
  • And the rules of District 13 are that she has to wear the jumpsuit. It doesn't mean she doesn't have some of her other outfits.
  • Ever seen Project Runway? You can make fabric into other things if you have time. And what else does Effie have?

• Why would you ever give a mentally unstable man a firearm, even for propaganda purposes? Did they really think there was absolutely no chance at all of finding even a single unfired bullet in a war zone? Even if Peeta never got so lucky, he could still use it as a club (which he did).
  • Coin was hoping that Peeta might take care of Katniss and she'd be out of the way. Or he might make things difficult for Katniss if the Capitol's armies ambushed them - which he did when they first arrived.
• Why, after killing one of his own subordinates for declaring Katniss dead without confirmation, would President Snow go on to do the exact same thing?
  • At that point, the rebels were already invading the Capitol, so it was one last, desperate gambit to try and get the rebels to surrender. Snow also executed the minister for losing District 2 in the first place.
• Medicine is supposed to be rather advanced at the time when the story is set. The doctors in District 13 know enough about psychology to not only be aware of what Peeta has been subjected to and how it works (even though it makes no real medical sense, but that's an issue for a different day), but also to be able to partially cure him. So why the heck are they keeping him strapped down on a gurney in the middle of an extremely brightly lit room with a wall of windows? Not only does that make him feel more trapped, but the bright lights also overload his senses and prevent him from being able to sleep. Seriously, they use that as a torture method in real life - why subject his already traumatized, damaged and frightened brain to that? One of the most basic rules when treating a damaged brain is to limit sensory exposure - avoid bright lights, keep the radio and television turned off, etc. They cannot possibly be unaware of this. The wall of windows doesn't help, making him feel observed and studied at all times. Basically, they took him from one prison cell to another, subjected him to even more torture, and then asked of him to trust them and allow them to heal him. What on earth were they thinking???
  • It depends entirely on what the process of the Hijacking is. So far, we only know that tracker jacker venom is injected with traumatic memories and the person is conditioned how they want. Could be that the bright lights might help if the hijacking was done in the dark (likely since it was to increase his fear) and the restraints were necessary due to his violent episodes. Also, this was not brain damage in the sense that he was hit in the head, it was conditioning combined with drugs to alter the brain's threat response.