Far from the outcome of the star-crossed lovers of District 12 in the original franchise, the love story in “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” ends without romance.
A theme within the film, which is adapted from Suzanne Collins’ prequel novel, involves the values of trust over love. Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) and Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) are thrown together by fate at first, then they grow to depend on each other. But do they actually trust one another? Producer Nina Jacobson, who also produced the original “Hunger Games” movies, said that’s up for debate.