Snowpiercer (2013, review)

Snowpiercer (2013)

I know this is an old movie, certainly in these mordernist times where everything moves fast. But I watched it and I will review it anyway!

Some facts first!

small synopsis

Snowpiercer is a South-Korean siencefictionfilm out 2013 based on the french strip  Le Transperceneige from the hands of Jaques Lob, Benjamin Legrand en jean-Marc Rochette. The movie was directed by Bong Joon-ho, the scenerio is from Bong and Kelly Masterson. The lead roles are for Chris Evans  Song Kang-ho, Go Ah-sung, Jamie Bell, Ewen Bremner, John Hurt (the the doctorwho fans, this is the wardoctor), Tilda Swinton, Octavia Spencer and  Ed Harris.

About the story

The movie takes place in a future where an experiment to combat global warming has gone terrebly wrong. Everything is covered in snow and the survivors are placed on a train.

Ofcourse, we have a ruling class, a middle class and a low class which is totally at the back and has really bad living conditions. The upperclass raises rebellions once in a while to keep the population under control because natural selection is to slow to keep population under control. The rebellion the movie depicts actually succeeds with the leader going all the way to the front. He is actually the first one to walk the whole lenght of the train.

commentary

The train isn't a communist hideout (which was to be expected) but if you are the last of humankind why would you even take people on board and then threat them badly? I mean loads of people get killed for population control, why even take to "lower class" people with you if you only care about the higher class which gets all the nice food, living compartments etc. But ofcourse we see children doing manual labour in spaces to small for adult people, but that is just extorsion. 

Here is another thin that bothers me about this movie really, it is a really bad idea to get a self sustainable colony on a train. What could go wrong you ask? it can derail by explosions, parts can go out of service and after a while you can be unable to replace them. If an apocalyptic event like another ice age should happen, don't build a train that is intended to ride forever.