Snowpiercer
Cast: Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, Ed
Harris, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, John Hurt
A famous South Korean Director, French graphic novel that
brings Captain America/Ancient One/Men in Black together on the same screen is our
18th recommended movie. Snowpiercer is one of those underrated movies which hasn’t
received all the credits and acknowledgement from the viewers even though it
was critically acclaimed for its vision, direction and performances. The production
house decisions who planned it for limited release initially can be one of the
main reasons of this movie having lack of viewership.
This is a pure Science Action Film based on a dystopian
future which is setup somewhere in 2031. This movie looks so real because of
the future created by the attempt to prevent global warming through climatic
engineering which backfires and thus creates an ice age kind of situation in 2014
which leads to global extinction of most forms of life including animals (only
those survived who can live below sub-zero temperatures), plants and most of
human race. By 2031 only survivors are the one who live on a train Snowpiercer
which is travelling on a created by an inventor named Wilford to enable the
train running in a circular track. The Train cars are divided into two parts
where the front cars are extravagant, and inhabitants are called elites and the
rear end cars inhabitants are called Scums who lives under brutal conditions
and are only being fed upon protein bars to survive.
With such an intriguing concept the movie is about the “Scum”
lead by Gilliam (John Hurt), Curtis (Chris Evans) along with Edgar (Jamie Bell)
plans to lead the passenger to take control of the engine. Mason (Tilda
Swinton) who is one of the accomplice of Wilford comes to take over two
children and easily able to defeat the passengers and amputating the arm of the
father of those children by pushing it out of the train in brutal weather,
Curtis decides to initiate their plan. Curtis and other passengers can overrun
the guards realizing their guns are empty and are able to take over Security
and prison cars.
Now starts the real fight where one by one Curtis and his
team plans to take over water supply car so that they can negotiate with
Wilford, gets some of their friends killed in multiple battles (intense battle
scenes which you cannot miss), goes through other luxurious cars uptill the
gate of the engine. This is where we leave you to see the movie where a breath-taking
conversations happens between Curtis and Wilford where he reveals his real
intentions of such an order and chaos in the train. We will surely uncover other
questions on whether the life outside is inhospitable or if it’s just another
strategy by rich to rule the poor in state of anarchy. Do watch and let us know
your thoughts!
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