[HanCinema's Film Review] "Snowpiercer"
By William Schwartz | Published on
It's a common genre trope for the mean, fascist villains to go into eloquent speeches about how their distorted view of the world is the correct one and that the heroes, in their heroicism, are just futilely striking at cold, hard, reality. In "Snowpiercer" the cold hard reality is the fact that the train is the only place left on Earth that humans can still survive, everything outside having turned into a barren wasteland.
What makes the villains in "Snowpiercer" so effective is that even though they know how important the train is, and have developed all sorts of elaborate equations and procedures built around this mathematical understanding of the world, and use all these facts as justifications for their actions, in reality they're all dogmatists.
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William Schwartz
Staff writer. Has been writing articles for HanCinema since 2012, having lived in South Korea from 2011 to 2021. He is currently located in the Southern Illinois. William Schwartz can be contacted via william@hancinema.net, and is open to requests for content in future articles.