Snowpiercer a.k.a. Willy Wonka on a train

It was pretty clear about the green agenda of this film from the outset. At least that's what I thought. I struggled to piece together the overall arc of the film from a philosophical point of view but struggled to because I was kinda high. I thought it was going to be a trope about global warming but then when I was exposed to the class-by-carriage social arrangement of the train I thought it was going to be about yet another trope about the struggles of the proletariats rising against an oppressive, totalitarian regime.

And that's more or less how it went for a while. Then there was hope after all the brutal (arguably somewhat gratuitous) violence that things may change, and it did, in a really clumsy way. But we'll get to that.

First off, why did the protagonist nearly puke when he saw the bugs being grinded into a paste when he ate people beforehand? Surely eating babies is grosser? You'd think he'd be desensitized to that sort of thing.

Then obviously, the fish. Presumably to cause infection upon survival of being hacked at with a fishy blade, still, all that technology on board and fish blood was the best thing they could come up with?

And what was that about stopping fighting for the bridge? They all respect the New Year Bridge? Seriously? An uprising stops fighting for the fucking New Year? Piss off.

Now we come to the clumsy end. The train crashes in rather cataclysmic style. Yet the two kids survive. Are we assuming the girl understands all that Inuit stuff about snow her now dead father banged on about when looking at the corpse of his former Inuit friend? No. No we're not. Because he didn't tell her (his daughter) shit about it. Her and that other kid are fucked. They might not freeze to death straight away but what? They gonna Adam and Eve that shit? Repopulate the earth? Fight off the now polar bear army of frozen terra? I doubt it.

Overall the movie was most entertaining. I enjoyed the violence and the acting was prettaaaay, prettaaaaaay, pretty good. I got s thing for Tilda Swinton. Chris Evans showed up too so that was pleasing. He's come a long way from Just Another Teen Movie.

3.5/5.