Parenting & Family Quote by Liam Hemsworth

Hemsworth frames spectacle as a class crime: violence is not a shared national ritual but a luxury good, consumed by people insulated from its costs. The blunt repetition of "They don't want" works like a moral gavel. It refuses nuance because the situation, in his telling, doesn’t deserve any. By the time he lands on children, he’s moved the debate from policy to primal disgust; no one wants to be caught defending a system where kids are collateral and also content.

The line draws a hard border between districts and capital, and it’s less geography than psychology. "Brainwashed" and "misguided" are doing double duty: they condemn the capital while also excusing it, suggesting these viewers aren’t monsters so much as products of a media environment engineered to dull empathy. That’s the subtext: the real villain isn’t individual taste, it’s an entertainment machine that trains people to mistake distance for innocence.

Context matters here: Hemsworth is speaking as an actor attached to The Hunger Games, a franchise built on the premise that authoritarian power thrives by turning suffering into televised sport. He’s translating the series’ allegory into a contemporary critique of how comfort can curdle into cruelty when screens mediate everything. "Completely unrealistic kind of world" isn’t just an insult; it’s a diagnosis of a bubble where consequences are edited out, and empathy becomes optional. The intent is to yank the audience out of that bubble, reminding them that what reads as "plot" to one class is lived catastrophe to another.