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SNOWPIERCER

Snowpiercer  (2013)

 

I like science fiction movies very much. In today class the movie that appears in my mind is Snowpiercer. It was a movie done in 2013, it was based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige. The film is directed by Bong joon ho, a south Korean director. The main character is Chris Evans as Curtis Everett, the leader of the revolution. The background of the movie was happen in a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most of the life on the earth. A massive train, powered by a perpetual-motion engine, that travels on a globe-spanning track.

A class system is installed, with the elites inhabiting the front of the train and poor inhabiting the tail. People that live inside the train have no memory of what the earth looks like before the earth is become cold. They were told not to leave the train, and they will freeze to death.

Besides, there are two parallel worlds, one assumed dead and another alive, and from time to time luxurious, through “balance”.  Children in the train also learn about the historical events of revolt and how they ended in failure. They were taught not to stop the train and they will all freeze and die. Remind us the issue of global warming.

In this movie the train as a house is like a place to live in. The train was separated by sections. It followed by the class and identity of people. This train is a complete ecosystem which must respect the balance. Air, water, food and people. Everything must be regulated. In the train they have plant, fish and water in difference section inside the train.

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The director was trying to say that human ideologies of order, no matter how complex and well thought out, will, ultimately, and crumble, but life itself is persistent beyond what humans can comprehend. People struggling on the train for survival, and how every section is classified in social stratification. This is the must watch movie, that will inspire you in your life. Fight your way to the front

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written by   Tan Xin Kai

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