In 2014 a group of scientists set out to solve the main problems facing the planet. Global warming, the hole in the ozone layer and the melting of the poles, but predictably the cure was worse than the disease and everything got out of control. The Earth entered a new ice age where everything is a frozen tundra and life has been extinguished.
Now the only solution for this predicament, because obviously it is very viable, was to build a train that circles it around the earth. An icebreaker. Where they can live without dying exposed to such low temperatures outside, but in the year 2031 social differences have become present, something also typical of dystopias, the lower classes are relegated to the queue of transport where they live in subhuman conditions and the elite live comfortably in the luxury cars close to the engine.
The insurgency and disagreement do not wait within the marginalized that with the help of the magnate's apprentice Wilford, who created the train, they will take control of transport and improve their lives. Curtís Everett is responsible for the riots and who, together with Namgoong, a security expert, plan to leave the train because they believe that the snow has begun to melt and there is life outside the transport.
The film was directed by Bong Joon-ho and based on the graphic novel by Jabeques Lob, Jean-Marc Rochette and Benjamin Legrand called Le Transperceneige. It shows us a hypothetical situation where the worst fears of humanity, that the solutions to our problems put us in more difficult situations. Talk about power and the difference it makes if it is not balanced. The high command trampling the weak and they introduce us to a protagonist who opposes this regime, but who has demons that make him look human to empathize with the public.
Aesthetically it is well done and is based on possible science to explain how the earth enters this ice age. The film is considered cult in Korea, its country of origin, but in the West it is an entertaining film to watch. It has great editing and passable special effects. The story has a lot to give and I think that is the reason why they started a series on Netflix.
I particularly love this dystopia of a pulled world where you are going to survive, but the train seemed realistic to me. There are better ways to survive and they were able to build something else. The fact that it was the scientists' own solutions that caused the problem was what struck me as great. In addition to the fact that an ice age may be possible because it does not receive sunlight and that it is reflected all the time. Clear at worst.
Snowpiercer is a well-executed and entertaining work, although it fails to reach you in the same way as the graphic novel. The cast is good and the scenarios taken from the Himalayas are great, but more than entertaining Joon-ho tries to surprise and that takes away a bit of beauty from the final result. I suggest you watch this movie and if you have the opportunity, the TV series. It's worth it, even if it doesn't have Chris Evans
