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Lucy Gray vanishes as Snow chooses his path
Spoilers for The Hunger Games prequel, from the tenth Games to the lakeside cabin.
Open the recap & discussion — spoilers
Coriolanus Snow, whose once-prominent family has fallen on hard times, mentors District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird in the tenth Hunger Games. Her survival and his prospects become linked.
A song, a handkerchief and the snakes
Lucy Gray wins attention through song. Snow helps her survive, supplying a compact with poison and putting a handkerchief bearing her scent into the snake tank so the creatures leave her alone. She wins. His help mixes attachment with ambition; the film leaves room for both motives.
After the Games
Exposed for cheating, Snow is sent to District 12 as a Peacekeeper and reunites with Lucy Gray. He records his friend Sejanus discussing an escape plan, and the evidence leads to Sejanus’s execution. After Mayfair is shot and a weapon links Snow to her death, Snow and Lucy Gray flee into the woods.
The guns at the cabin
Snow finds the guns at a lakeside cabin. Disposing of the evidence could let him return to a future in the Capitol. Lucy Gray disappears into the forest; Snow finds her scarf, is bitten by a snake and fires into the trees while searching for her. The film does not confirm whether she lives or dies. Snow sinks the guns in the lake and returns.
The road back to power
Snow goes back to the Capitol and continues within a system where Dr Gaul sees value in him. At the cabin, a possible return to power arrives alongside his fear and distrust. Lucy Gray’s unresolved fate remains separate from the choices the film shows him making.
After watching
- When did trust between Snow and Lucy Gray begin to break down for you?
- What does the uncertainty about Lucy Gray add to the ending?
Before watching
Dystopian violence, execution and children forced to fight.
Keep the conversation going
Does Lucy Gray die?
The film does not confirm her fate after she disappears into the woods.
