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Snowpiercer (2014)

June. 27,2014
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7.1
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R
| Drama Action Science Fiction
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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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Chirphymium
2014/06/27

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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Fairaher
2014/06/28

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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StyleSk8r
2014/06/29

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

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Geraldine
2014/06/30

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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david-sarkies
2014/07/01

This film came very highly recommended, if only from one of those countless number of Youtube sites that seem to deal exclusively with movies. Okay, it was listed as one of the must see movies, though ironically all of these must see movies were basically newer ones. Anyway, the film is based an a French comic book from the 70s and is actually touted as South Korea's most expensive film ever made (and it was directed by a South Korean). This does have the effect of setting it apart from much of the rubbish that seems to be filling our cinema screens these days. So, the story goes that the world is suffering the effects of Climate Change, and they decide to solve it by spraying stuff into the upper atmosphere. It worked, but the problem is that it worked a little too well - the entire world froze. Anyway, this excentric billionaire had build a railway line that circumnavigated the world, and was set up so people could live on it for years at a time, so pretty much everybody scrambled to get on board, though those who were not able to pay the hefty price tag were either denied entry or relegated to the tail section. The film begins in the tail section, which not surprising is overcrowded, and the people are basically poor and are fed things call protein bars. Every so often soldiers come in to hand out the food, but one day they come and take away all of the children, which pushes the people, who is led by Chris Evans (who plays Captain America, though not in this film) to stage a revolt. The whole idea is to get from one side of the train to the other and take control of the engine. The problem is that there happens to be a series of sealed doors between them and their goal, so they also need a technician to be able to break though. This film is clearly a comment on the class culture, but I think it goes much further than that. The way I see it it seems to be a microcosm of the world in which we live. If you happen to live in a poor country then good luck actually getting out of that country to get to a better country. In fact these days there seems to be a lot more borders being closed, and refuges relegated to detention camps in places that are even more inhospitable. I guess the problem is that it is the case of the rich not wanting to share with the poor, and also this idea that the poor are in that situation through either their own fault, or some curse by some divine power. In a sense it seems to be an essence of entitlement, but in another sense many of us who are wealthy simply have no dialogue with the poor. We simply don't understand and don't want to understand. Actually this film goes even further to create this idea that the poor should actually be grateful that they get what they do from the rich. In a way it is a sickening concept, yet I can't claim to be all that innocent of it either. I guess it just happens to be that bubble that we to live in. Another thing that stands out in this film is its quirkiness. This is a trait of many French films, and it seems that the South Koreans have kept with it. I have seen other adaptations of French stories, such as Tintin, and they seem to shy away from it. Well, this isn't the case here - they embrace it with open arms. This is something that I find great about this film - the characters have their little quirks and oddities, particularly the ones from the front of the train. It seems that this is also a nature of the divide, where wealth and luxury actually breeds these quirks, whereas the poor are simply struggling to survive. However, in the end, the old addage still holds true - he who dies with the most toys, still dies.

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TheBigSick
2014/07/02

Set in a near future, this spectacular Sci-Fi thriller keeps the interests of the audiences from the start to the end, and nobody can really predict what will happen in the next scene. It also offers a series of thought-provoking dialogues and an in-depth discussion about humanity. The visual effects are simple yet effective. Chris Evans gives perhaps his best performances to date.

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jaynikki
2014/07/03

I've never written a review before in my entire life but as I'm sitting here in my friend's apartment watching this God awful film, I knew something had to done. This movie literally has me lost for words. The trailer completely misconstrued what the purpose of this film was. It was just a complete mess of a movie that I refuse to take seriously. I don't know how this was created into a film. Yikes!

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Yannick
2014/07/04

I couldn't watch until the end. Too many WTF moments.Burlesque.

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