I watched this film because I just learned about the new Netflix series, I actually was curious about watching this new series but as I did my research, I noticed this movie had a film which I hadn't watched and which made me really excited, as it was directed by Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho and even starred Chris Evans!
Snowpiercer is a 2013 science fiction film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob.
This movie is set in a post-apocalyptic future in which the entire world is frozen except for those aboard the Snowpiercer, a gigantic train that has many technological advances and is a lot like a city. For 17 years the survivors have been stuck on this train that goes around the globe for what seems to be like an eternity. If the train stops they die.
The passengers of this train have developed their own economy and class system over the years they have been stuck there. There is ruthless segregation of classes, the lower class living in inhumane conditions in the back of the train, while the higher class lives in luxury in the front of the train.
Our protagonist Curtis (Chris Evans), decides to start a revolution. He is a part of the lower class and thus lives right at the back of the train, he gathers a team and develops a plan to take them all to the front. The idea is to take control of the train so that they can spread the wealth around. A revolution is on its way!
One of my favorite things about this film is that each section of the train has its own themes and rules, it's a very interesting idea. There is a part that looks like a very creepy classroom for children, another one that is like a giant aquarium keeping safe the fish species that have probably gone extinct due to the frozen world. I loved it when they'd go to a new section because it was very exciting to see what it looked like.
This is a great action film, the sequences are really engaging and there is bloodshed everywhere. This movie also has a great cast, it allowed me to see Chris Evans in a different light, one totally different from that of Captain America. There are also great Korean actors that are very famous in Korea, it's great that the director gave them these roles, because it gave them more exposure to the Western audience.
Snowpiercer touches a lot on the message of how unfair our society system is, the difference between classes, and how we should strive for a system that isn't as unfair as the one we have now. It doesn't matter that they are in a post-apocalyptic world and there aren't as many people alive, they still managed to make a class-based system inside the train focused on the money these people had before the apocalypse.
It also has messages of global warming, showing us this frozen world in which nothing grows and where everything has died.
