Yes, it was written from a Bush perspective. The author said it was inspired by a combination of the Iraq war and game shows. The theme is this: poor and middle-class people, dooped by faux patriotism, go against their own class interests and send their children to die in conflicts concocted by the fascistic right-wing overclass for purposes of entertainment, profit, and control. In other words, a pretty obvious lefty message about class exploitation.
John Nolte at Breitbart and Ed Morrissey at Hot Air both picked up on this and skewered the film in their reviews, and rightfully so in my opinion. I thought it was clearly written from a left perspective though with enough ambiguity that a conservative interpretation is possible if one insists.
It has enough “ambiguity” for me to it from a conservative perspective.
I like V for vendetta, clearly a hard left movie, but in my perspective, I see some conservative message in the movie.
Not duped. The back-story is that they rose up against the all-powerful government, lost, and were broken into districts. The districts were forced, at threat of destruction/death, to send a male and female child between the ages of 12 and 18 to the games each year as retribution for their uprising and failure. The ultimate story is, they rose up against this oppression and fought back because one person showed them how.
If you haven't read the series, then I don't want to spoil the story about district 13.