Snowpiercer is an interesting take on dystopian future, set in a train circling around the desolate frozen world. The train has a class system, and the working class revolts, making snowpiercer somewhat of a mix between Children of Men and The Raid. The film is a solid exhibition of a dystopian future on a train, but I'd also like to see a Utopian version since the upper quartile of the train seemed like a great place for a film to be set it.
snowpiercer has a really solid cast, and Joon Ho Bong does well in his American film debut, this does the lack the humor his Korean films have though. The film incorporates a lot of Interesting political messages, ranging from nazism (the education), capitalism (class system), communism ("government" owns everything and workers revolt), fascism (government controls everything), etc. And It does all this without having an agenda or being preachy.
The end of the film is fairly poor, but the concepts and setting make up for the films lacking.
snowpiercer has a really solid cast, and Joon Ho Bong does well in his American film debut, this does the lack the humor his Korean films have though. The film incorporates a lot of Interesting political messages, ranging from nazism (the education), capitalism (class system), communism ("government" owns everything and workers revolt), fascism (government controls everything), etc. And It does all this without having an agenda or being preachy.
The end of the film is fairly poor, but the concepts and setting make up for the films lacking.