My husband and I are in Seattle visiting his sister and her family. The weather is beautiful. We’ve seen Mt. Rainier everyday and we explore Seattle while everyone else has to work! We had lunch in a little neighborhood with about three blocks of shops, cafes and an old movie theater.
My husband noticed a movie was showing he’d read about–Snowpiercer. I hadn’t read or heard anything about it, but it sounded interesting when he talked about it…a train which has traveled around the world for 18 years with what is left of humanity. The poor people are at the back of the train trying to survive and the rich are at the front of the train living in luxury.
Set in a future where a failed climate-change experiment kills all life on the planet except for a lucky few who boarded the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe, where a class system emerges.
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, Tilda Swinton, Kang-ho Song
Chris Evans (The Avengers, Captain America) plays Curtis who leads the rebellion; Tilda Swinton is very good as a “minister” in charge of keeping order on the train, i.e., “everyone in their place.”
We don’t see movies in the theater very often so this was a treat. It was a weekday afternoon and we were two of the five people in the theater!
The movie is a post-apocalyptic class war on board a train! It has a bit of violence, but that didn’t bother me too much. I guess I didn’t feel too invested in the characters. I felt removed from them…as the first class passengers at the front of the train obviously felt. I enjoyed the movie. It ends rather ambiguously as a lot of science fiction does, but thought-provoking and entertaining.
In the movie we see the inside of only about 20 train cars, but the graphic novel has many more.
Adapted from a French graphic novel that took 30 years to translate into English.
The first volume Snowpiercer, Vol 1: The Escape was published in January 2014 by Titan Comics.
I love the retro look of these images.
Sounds interesting – I’d never heard of it!
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I hadn’t heard of it before either, Lark, but my husband keeps an eye out for sci-fi movies so he immediately noticed it on the marquee!
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