Snowpiercer

Snowpiercer

2014 "AD 2031, the passengers in the train are the only survivors on Earth."
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Snowpiercer

7.1 | 2h7m | R | en | Drama

In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

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7.1 | 2h7m | R | en | Drama , Action , Science Fiction | More Info
Released: June. 27,2014 | Released Producted By: CJ Entertainment , Opus Pictures Country: South Korea Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.

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Chris Evans , Song Kang-ho , John Hurt

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Kim Eun-young

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CJ Entertainment , Opus Pictures

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rleec-94301 I cannot even begin to imagine the mind of someone who would think of this film. It's mental, but it's just sensational
aziz-tarak Its a movie of deep philosophical understanding . This movie question Core social Quota and Its system. You can compare it with your country or Government .If you deserve some captain America type action from Chris Evan , Its not for you Its plot ask a deeper question to the viewer about reality ,government,economy,punishment, and law .The trains mother engine is keeping everybody alive in a disciplined manner but question arise how you define the law and equality . The plot motto can be " when injustice became the law resistance becomes the duty ' ( sometime created by the system for its interest), ln the end the resistance can destroy a fully functional system with much destructive power . Its may be not perfect but who knows the future will may repeat or learn . Thanks go to the writer , director and Chris evan . Will inspire generations ahead . Is my system is broken ?
smoothgoal On first look, this Snowpiercer is a complete mess. Full of all kinds of plot holes and very questionable behaviours of the characters.I was hoping until the very end that some things might get explained, somehow, but the movie ended in even more illogical way by blowing the entire train. I stood for a good couple of minutes in complete disappointment.But rewinding all the illogical moments of the movie, it started to make sense. My perception was that this movie was telling a story. It was not. If one abstracts himself, this movie actually describes a picture, not a story. Two pictures to be more precise.The train is not a train at all, its a description of the human engine that we all ride in each day of our lives. Going very fast, on a bumpy ride, yet going nowhere. At its back are the lowest classes, hungry and suffering, oppressed by rules that they don't fully understand, fighting to get a better life, not knowing what that means. Its a pure description of the jihad movements, and not only. After them are the outcasts, people, like Snowden, who rebelled against the engine. The disgusting food production factories. For a reason there is a vegan movement. The trump card, water section, that is not a trump card at all. The empty 'battlefield' section, that has no reason to exist on a train like this. The night vision, superior technology, should have ended the battle in an instant. Yet in real life, battles are fought over large periods of time and there are ways to counteract higher technologies. The few ones that pass the 'battlefield' face the hidden 'weapons and agencies'. The twisted education system, the oblivious casual workers and even more oblivious 'rest or party' sections. The inhuman locomotive that barely works. The 'people who are to be blamed', I.E. politicians and higher ups, who actually do more or less what is necessary to sustain the locomotive, losing parts of their humanity in the process. If one pictures all this, its a complete picture of the human engine that is our lives.The second picture is after crash. Not everyone will die when the engine breaks. And no matter how much humanity has screwed up nature, life will go on. We'll be the ones that might not continue to live.I think that this is brilliant, but the movie is not clear about it. Many, as it can be seen in the reviews, did not realise the purpose of the 'story'.Another movie with brilliant idea, but bad execution. Worth the watch, but nothing more.
Invader Xan This movie was... interesting. There were some nice ideas and concepts in there, but ultimately it just made a big mess inside my head. And I'm not going to pick out plot holes because hell, just read any of the other reviews on this page. But combined, they felt a bit distracting.The art and style is great. The whole thing is interestingly designed, and certain motifs like the big W logo come together at the ending when the main plot twist is revealed. Some of the character design may be a little goofy, but it fits with the overall tone. A lot of this movie is very visually attractive and the actors do a good job of keeping the narrative going. The choice of bilingual dialogue is an interesting one too, and not something which is used often enough in cinema, in my opinion.The trouble, the way I see it, is that most of the tropes in this film, dystopian or otherwise, have been handled better in other films.The population is controlled by both the top level and the bottom level being controlled in unison, leading to regular revolts by the lower class which are ultimately doomed to failure while still allowing room for the cycle to continue. That's basically the same premise as the latter two Matrix films.A dystopian society is subdivided into a starving and oppressed lower class who live in abject poverty and a flamboyantly dressed upper class who seemingly do little else but engage in mindless hedonism. That's essentially the worldbuilding from The Hunger Games.Brainwashing people with pseudo-religious propaganda to believe the person in charge is some kind of benevolent and merciful overlord... I can't think of an example offhand but I know I've seen that before.I was honestly surprised when those protein blocks the lower class were eating weren't rebranded soylent green. Though I have to wonder where they got all the roaches from. Were they farming them?All that said, a lot of good plot setups and payoffs are there in the writing. The drug is an explosive, the matches save the day twice, the uncomfortable regularity of characters losing limbs, and so on. Most of the plots and arcs are well constructed and you genuinely do feel empathy for some of the characters, making for some sad moments when they met their ends. The trouble is that the ending felt... Derailing. Pun intended. Giving it a full on Blake's 7 ending made a lot of the movie's main conflict feel a little pointless in hindsight. And why was there a polar bear on top of the mountain? They hunt seals.Additionally the whole thing about Curtis not wanting to lose his arm as a character arc feels a little tacked on TBH. But that's probably what happens when you squeeze most of a character arc into the final act of a story. Also, dammit Chris Evans, what is it with you getting limbs stuck in machinery at the end of movies?Overall, this movie feels more Waterworld than Fury Road, as far as dystopian stories go. It's worth watching as an entertaining and slightly larger than life action movie, as long as you don't pay too much attention to the finer details. But it certainly won't be for everyone.