Snowpiercer
Snowpiercer
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Post-apocalyptic science fiction meets action movie meets arthouse with Snowpiercer, the English language debut of South Korean director Bong Joon-ho (Memories of Murder, The Host). In 2014, an experiment to counteract global warming causes an ice age that kills nearly all life on Earth. The only survivors are the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a massive train, powered by a perpetual-motion engine, that travels on a globe-spanning track. A class system is installed, with the elites inhabiting the front of the train and poor inhabiting the tail. In 2031, the inhabitants of the tail prepare for a rebellion, led by Chris Evans (of recent Captain America & Avengers fame), that will attempt to make it to the front of the train and control the engine. Also with Tilda Swinton, Ed Harris, and John Hurt.

Bong Joon-ho--South Korea--2013--126 mins.

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   | Lewis#4

Director Bong Joon-ho's first outing in English is a captivating fantasy piece, combining climate- calamity dystopia with action-fueled class revolt. In the aftermath of misguided climate-change tinkering, the entire earth is reduced to a frozen, relatively lifeless wasteland. Improbably, the surviving humans are permanent passengers aboard a long, constantly moving train controlled by the mysterious, all-powerful Wilford (Ed Harris), an aloof Wizard-of-Oz type. A rigid caste system is imposed on the passengers in which the denizens of the rear cars are exploited ruthlessly while the forward-car passengers live lives of pampered ease (the vertical class structure of Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" made horizontal). A brave band of rear-car dwellers (Chris Evans, Jamie Bell, John Hurt, Octavia Spencer, Bong regular Song Kang-ho, and others), foment a revolution, making their way, car-by-car to the front of the train there to confront Wilford. Stealing the show is Tilda Swinton, doing her thing as the pompously didactic, patronizing spokesperson for Wilford. (Some version of this archly officious, hilarious persona has become a specialty for this wonderfully oddball actress.) The film is based upon the three-volume graphic novel Transperceneige, created by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette and continued by Benjamin Legrand. (A fourth volume, written by Oliver Bocquet, was published after the making of this film.) With its depiction of a rigid class structure (boasting an unhappy present-day relevance) and a train that is constantly moving but never arriving, this story has a nice allegorical resonance. It is also beautifully filmed, making the most of its inevitably cramped interiors.

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   | Dino#2

Director Bong Joon Ho creates a motion picture version of the 1982 graphic novel Le Transperceneige. A new ice age resulting from a man-made “cure” for global warming drives the earth’s remaining human population to survival aboard a speeding train. This entirety of humanity brings with it the trappings of classism setting the stage for a brutal and costly revolution.

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