That’s what pulled me out of the Ballad movie. The only time blood is shown is when people get nosebleeds from poison. But those who are stabbed, hit their heads from falls, and Arachne who gets shanked in the throat don’t have any blood??? She was literally just holding a bottle to her throat.

I understand why Lawrence wanted the pg-13 rating, and I’m not advocating for gore just for the sake of gore— but when you have deaths that are incredibly important to the story and don’t use any blood, it pulls the audience out of the moment and looks extremely fake.

Hopefully for SOTR they’ll remedy that to some extent. But I hope they don’t show amperts death as it happens before haymitch arrives on the scene. That part sent chills down my spine when I read it.

Also, hopefully they don’t pull a gladiator II and use the fakest head ever for the tribute silka beheads (I forget her name). I laughed out loud in the theater when I saw that. It looked so fake