Snowpiercer is Korean genius Bong Joon-Ho’s first English language feature – he directed
Memories of Murder, The Host and
Mother – and it is based on Jacques Lob’s graphic novel
Le Transperceneige. Bong wrote the screenplay along with Kelly Masterson (
Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead),
and the result is as spectacularly ambitious, thought provoking and
entertaining a science fiction entry as Bong’s esteemed credentials
promise.
The film is set in the year 2031, and the world is a frozen and
uninhabitable. Seventeen years earlier measures were taken to stop
global warming, but the experiment was a disaster, killing everything in
the process. Those lucky enough to survive boarded the giant rattling
ark called the Snowpiercer, a train that circumnavigates the globe over
the course of exactly one year.
We are first introduced to those living in the back of the train, the
lowest class. They sleep cramped together, their hygiene is appalling,
their only source of food is a manufactured protein block distributed
once per day, they are beaten and mistreated by the train’s guards and
have been deprived everything that the upper class forward carriages
consume in lavish excess. Amongst these tail-dwellers are Curtis (Chris
Evans), Edgar (Jamie Bell), Gilliam (William Hurt) and Tanya (Octavia
Spencer), and they are desperate to shake up the world order.
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