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For anyone interested, I just saw the film entitled Snowpiercer - and it is truly one of the most powerful (and yet dark/heavy) films I've ever seen when it comes to showing how quickly man can evolve to do the worst things others say he'd never do.
Snowpiercer Official US Release Trailer #1 (2014) - Chris Evans Movie HD - YouTube
Snowpiercer - Chris Evans | Behind the Scenes | FandangoMovies - YouTube
For a good review of the film, one can go here to The Korean Foreigner: The Philosophy of Snowpiercer or to the following:
The film is based upon the French comic book Le Transperceniege and the film does an excellent job of representing the comic with a high concept.
In the future, a failed attempt at climate control (to stop global warming) leads to a new Ice Age that wipes out all life - and only those who entered on to this vastly well-designed train were able to survive. Decades later, the central story in Snowpiercer concerns a revolution that sees the people in steerage grow tired of being repressed and attempt to take control of the train, car by car. More specifically, the movie takes place in the year 2031, seventeen years after a chemical known as CW7 was unleashed into the Earths atmosphere in an attempt to prevent any further stage of global warming.....with it instead leading to an extermination of all life on the planet by freezing over the world and its populace. And the only survivors of the environmental catastrophe have taken shelter on an enormous train that travels the globe on a yearly basis: the Snowpiercer. While the upper-class citizens occupy the front of the vehicle, the lower-class civilians reside in the tail.
These people live in squalor, fed only gelatinous protein blocks while being abused by guards armed with machine guns - WITH others at the top of the train living in opulence and wealth. Chris Evans stars as Curtis, a blue-collar member of the establishment who, with the help of his plucky friend, Edgar (Jamie Bell), and a wise old man named Gilliam (John Hurt), plans a revolt against the corrupt authorities in control of the trains engine. As they manage to move their way forward one room at a time, often through violent combat against the hierarchys armed forces, the rebels are pushed to ethical extremes, which challenges their morality as they attempt to gain control of the train.
As they move forward, the director (Bong) shows us the true human cost of an action film as each death is horrifyingly real and hard to watch.
When I saw the film, I couldn't help but think on where I was not a huge fan of the French Revolution which was based heavily on Nihilism and the Enlightenment Era with so much of its angst toward religious thought (and the violence that was seen as a means to change things) - and even though I appreciate other principles that were developed from it...many of which helped Black Christians in Haiti fight for their freedom - I find it repugnant to see the ways that the same people leading revolution ended up doing the exact same opppression that they fought against ...and sometimes worse.
The film Snowpiercer really does help to bring home the issue of how often people don't realize that they harm themselves when it comes to survival alone being the focus rather than living for something more.
For anyone who has seen the film, I was curious what you thought on it. What were your thoughts in regards to being controlled without realizing it - on how humans act when they are forced to survive together? Did you feel the film was a good exposition on how man tends to turn to violence when difficulty arises?
For anyone interested, I just saw the film entitled Snowpiercer - and it is truly one of the most powerful (and yet dark/heavy) films I've ever seen when it comes to showing how quickly man can evolve to do the worst things others say he'd never do.
Snowpiercer Official US Release Trailer #1 (2014) - Chris Evans Movie HD - YouTube
Snowpiercer - Chris Evans | Behind the Scenes | FandangoMovies - YouTube
For a good review of the film, one can go here to The Korean Foreigner: The Philosophy of Snowpiercer or to the following:
The film is based upon the French comic book Le Transperceniege and the film does an excellent job of representing the comic with a high concept.
In the future, a failed attempt at climate control (to stop global warming) leads to a new Ice Age that wipes out all life - and only those who entered on to this vastly well-designed train were able to survive. Decades later, the central story in Snowpiercer concerns a revolution that sees the people in steerage grow tired of being repressed and attempt to take control of the train, car by car. More specifically, the movie takes place in the year 2031, seventeen years after a chemical known as CW7 was unleashed into the Earths atmosphere in an attempt to prevent any further stage of global warming.....with it instead leading to an extermination of all life on the planet by freezing over the world and its populace. And the only survivors of the environmental catastrophe have taken shelter on an enormous train that travels the globe on a yearly basis: the Snowpiercer. While the upper-class citizens occupy the front of the vehicle, the lower-class civilians reside in the tail.
These people live in squalor, fed only gelatinous protein blocks while being abused by guards armed with machine guns - WITH others at the top of the train living in opulence and wealth. Chris Evans stars as Curtis, a blue-collar member of the establishment who, with the help of his plucky friend, Edgar (Jamie Bell), and a wise old man named Gilliam (John Hurt), plans a revolt against the corrupt authorities in control of the trains engine. As they manage to move their way forward one room at a time, often through violent combat against the hierarchys armed forces, the rebels are pushed to ethical extremes, which challenges their morality as they attempt to gain control of the train.
As they move forward, the director (Bong) shows us the true human cost of an action film as each death is horrifyingly real and hard to watch.
When I saw the film, I couldn't help but think on where I was not a huge fan of the French Revolution which was based heavily on Nihilism and the Enlightenment Era with so much of its angst toward religious thought (and the violence that was seen as a means to change things) - and even though I appreciate other principles that were developed from it...many of which helped Black Christians in Haiti fight for their freedom - I find it repugnant to see the ways that the same people leading revolution ended up doing the exact same opppression that they fought against ...and sometimes worse.
The film Snowpiercer really does help to bring home the issue of how often people don't realize that they harm themselves when it comes to survival alone being the focus rather than living for something more.
For anyone who has seen the film, I was curious what you thought on it. What were your thoughts in regards to being controlled without realizing it - on how humans act when they are forced to survive together? Did you feel the film was a good exposition on how man tends to turn to violence when difficulty arises?
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