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<big><big>Snowpiercer</big></big> may contain spoiler
Before the movie :
I waited for the movie but when it came out in France in October 2013 the cinema near my home didn't show it and i saw the movie later, i didn't write a review because i thought it would be late but i just saw an article saying the movie would be released this June (don't know why it's so late there).
As i watched it again this week-end with a friend i thought about writing this, giving an opinion to our US members.
Movie Plot :
In 2014 a climate engineering experiment is done to counteract the global warming, this turned out badly and caused a new ice age.
Almost all life is killed on earth, what's left of humanity is in a train perpetually in motion around the world, there is a categorization is done by social class, the poor live in the tail of the train and the rich are in the front part.
A routine is set up, guards come to deliver protein blocks and count the population, sometimes taking children away with them. Poors tryed a few rebellions throughout the years but were killed by guards
2031, Seventeen years after the beginning of the ice age, Curtis Everett (Chris Evans) leads a rebellion knowing that none of the previous ones succeded but old Gilliam (John Hurt) tells him it must be done and Edgar (Jamie Bell), who admires him, his eager to take revenge over rich people. Curtis receives secret messages about the rebellion without knowing who sends them.
The poor are looking to fight their way to get to the nose of the train and take revenge over the rich ones through blood, sweat and tears...mostly blood, and Curtis is determined to kill Wilford, the man who created the train and controls everything, will he be the first man to succeed a rebellion and give a better life to his fellow lower class people or is he taking them to a their death ?
My impressions :
+ The story itself. I liked the idea of a class conflict and a rebellion in a confined space.
+ For once we don't have the "every movies stereotypes", i mean you don't have a guy who is here simply as a comic relief, you don't have the love interest, etc...
+ The actors are great. Especially loved how Tilda Swinton is doing her psycho bitch role as Mason, she really looks completely crazy.
+ Ed Harris as Wilford who controls everything and watches the rebellion of the poor from his ivory tower, laughing at it and calculating it, considering himself as a god.
+ The scene with kids explains why rich are kind of crazy and considers the train as a god-made machine and Wilford as a god, it's also a bit awkward.
+ The 74% and how it was explained in a kind of implicit way before it was actually straightly explained.
- I understand why rich kids see the train as a god-made machine but not the old ones (Mason & the teacher).
- One of Wilford's henchmen does something weird and useless (sorry, it's evasive but i try to avoid spoilers)
- The end of the movie
To conclude, i loved Snowpiercer. I've seen a lot of very good reviews but also some very bad, saying it was too manichean with good poors and bad riches but i disagree with it. Didn't get bored at any time and would recommand this movie.
<big><big>8.5/10</big></big>
To those who saw the movie, what are your thoughts about the ending ? Maybe i misunderstood the scene.
Give your answers into a spoiler to not ruin the movie for people who didn't see it yet, here is why i didn't like that ending :
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Spoiling the end of the movie</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;"><div class='spoiler_toggle'>Don't read if you haven't seen the movie</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">All humanity was in the train, the only survivors are Yona and Timmy, i guess it's some kind of Adam and Eve symbolism and should be a sparkle of hope to recreate humanity but they are a kid and a teen, if they don't die because of the cold or starving, the polar bear we see at the end might kill them. What bothered me is the fact that it's shown as a sign of hope but if you're realist it's the end of humanity, so there is a contradiction between how it is shown and how i interpreted this.</div></div>
Before the movie :
I waited for the movie but when it came out in France in October 2013 the cinema near my home didn't show it and i saw the movie later, i didn't write a review because i thought it would be late but i just saw an article saying the movie would be released this June (don't know why it's so late there).
As i watched it again this week-end with a friend i thought about writing this, giving an opinion to our US members.
Movie Plot :
In 2014 a climate engineering experiment is done to counteract the global warming, this turned out badly and caused a new ice age.
Almost all life is killed on earth, what's left of humanity is in a train perpetually in motion around the world, there is a categorization is done by social class, the poor live in the tail of the train and the rich are in the front part.
A routine is set up, guards come to deliver protein blocks and count the population, sometimes taking children away with them. Poors tryed a few rebellions throughout the years but were killed by guards
2031, Seventeen years after the beginning of the ice age, Curtis Everett (Chris Evans) leads a rebellion knowing that none of the previous ones succeded but old Gilliam (John Hurt) tells him it must be done and Edgar (Jamie Bell), who admires him, his eager to take revenge over rich people. Curtis receives secret messages about the rebellion without knowing who sends them.
The poor are looking to fight their way to get to the nose of the train and take revenge over the rich ones through blood, sweat and tears...mostly blood, and Curtis is determined to kill Wilford, the man who created the train and controls everything, will he be the first man to succeed a rebellion and give a better life to his fellow lower class people or is he taking them to a their death ?
My impressions :
+ The story itself. I liked the idea of a class conflict and a rebellion in a confined space.
+ For once we don't have the "every movies stereotypes", i mean you don't have a guy who is here simply as a comic relief, you don't have the love interest, etc...
+ The actors are great. Especially loved how Tilda Swinton is doing her psycho bitch role as Mason, she really looks completely crazy.
+ Ed Harris as Wilford who controls everything and watches the rebellion of the poor from his ivory tower, laughing at it and calculating it, considering himself as a god.
+ The scene with kids explains why rich are kind of crazy and considers the train as a god-made machine and Wilford as a god, it's also a bit awkward.
+ The 74% and how it was explained in a kind of implicit way before it was actually straightly explained.
- I understand why rich kids see the train as a god-made machine but not the old ones (Mason & the teacher).
- One of Wilford's henchmen does something weird and useless (sorry, it's evasive but i try to avoid spoilers)
- The end of the movie
To conclude, i loved Snowpiercer. I've seen a lot of very good reviews but also some very bad, saying it was too manichean with good poors and bad riches but i disagree with it. Didn't get bored at any time and would recommand this movie.
<big><big>8.5/10</big></big>
To those who saw the movie, what are your thoughts about the ending ? Maybe i misunderstood the scene.
Give your answers into a spoiler to not ruin the movie for people who didn't see it yet, here is why i didn't like that ending :
<div class='spoiler_toggle'>Spoiling the end of the movie</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;"><div class='spoiler_toggle'>Don't read if you haven't seen the movie</div><div class="spoiler" style="display:none;">All humanity was in the train, the only survivors are Yona and Timmy, i guess it's some kind of Adam and Eve symbolism and should be a sparkle of hope to recreate humanity but they are a kid and a teen, if they don't die because of the cold or starving, the polar bear we see at the end might kill them. What bothered me is the fact that it's shown as a sign of hope but if you're realist it's the end of humanity, so there is a contradiction between how it is shown and how i interpreted this.</div></div>