Review of Snowpiercer (2013) by Mcgillotine — 16 Jan 2016

I can say without a doubt the film Snowpiecer is the hardest film I have ever had to review to date. Where on one hand the film can be argued as a masterpiece, it can be put forward as a equally valid argument that the film is a complete and utter catastrophe and I find myself somewhere down the middle in my opinion of the dystopian sci-fi flick.

Based on a french graphic novel, Bong Joon-ho, the films director presents a grim view of the earths future one in which a preventative against global warming results in entirely new ice age in which humanity's numbers have become limited and the lines of social hierarchy have become ever so clear demonstrated by the living standards of each section of the train with the compartments closest to the front of the train being dedicated to the rich while the compartments closest to the back represent the poor junctions of this almost monarchical society.

Where this film carries strong performances by Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton and Ed Harris in this cold and cruel makeshift world with stunning imagery, it is the moral agenda of the film that is its main fall, when it decides to introduce the questions is mankind worth saving? and what is the value of a human soul? all culminating towards an ending that is bleak and most of all frustrating, justified by the fact that it was a deserved ending.