The main premise of Snowpiercer seems simple, classes of people are divided into different cars of trains. However it is so much more in depth than that. The lower class in the furthers car to the rear is extremely impoverished, and forced to eat"protein blocks" which are essentially a gelatin made from bug parts, while those in the front cars live life in extreme lavish luxury. The film takes such a unique approach to this theme and really gets the ball rolling from the start. One of my absolute favorite scenes in all of film is the scene where a man from the lowest class of car has his arm stuck out of the train, which is surrounded by a subzero wasteland, and has it completely frozen, all the while he is being used to be made example of a woman of status, and is made to wear a shoe on his head to symbolize how they are the lowest of the low, and live under the feet of the higher class. Eventually his arm is practically frozen solid and it is brought back into the train, only to be brutally smashed with a massive hammer and shattered into tiny pieces.
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AuthorThe one and only Big CURRRRR Archives
April 2024
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