So finally a new post! I came back! How lucky you all are! I decided that I was going to take myself out on a date tonight. I needed some cheering up. it's good to have some alone time, but it doesn't need to be stuck in my gloomy apartment. So I walked through the thunderstorm - absolutely gorgeous lightening - towards the Nickelodeon Cinemas and saw "Snowpiercer", a sci-fi/dark comedy about a dystopian future and doomed humanity. Sounds like nothing new right? Well, I first saw this Buzzfeed article, and I was mildly intrigued. Bong-Joon Ho's little know, controversial movie? Well, I need to check this out. So I clambered over to Rotten Tomatoes to get a check on the ratings for it. Well, lo and behold this is what I found. Really awesome right?
So I decided date night with myself. It's good to treat myself and be comfortable doing things on my own. After the brutal and cynic post I left earlier today, I was feeling raw and angry and unhappy. A pick me up was definitely required. Definitely. This eerie, snowy movie with the hunk Chris Evans was really what I needed to distract me. Well, let me tell you, it worked. The movie lived up to it's expectations. I will try to avoid spoilers but I make no promises.
The premise of the movie is humankind created their own deathly Ice age that supposedly wiped out all living species on the plant and everything plunged into unlivable temperatures surrounded by ice and snow and wind. Wow. If that wasn't bad enough the last dregs of humanity are stuck on this locomotive that circles the world. It has an eternal engine which allows it to keep propelling itself, without breaking down. Well, the worst of the worst are at the back of the train, living in cramped, dirty, impoverished conditions. They are beaten and made to live in hovels, if you could even call them that. Curtis (Chris Evans) wants to lead a revolt to the front of the train (the engine) and take control and spread the wealth they believe is in the front. Well they follow through and in the end Curtis does make it to the front. I can't explain much of the in between bits without giving much away.
I can say that Octavia Spencer's performance was deep and heartfelt, she was excellent. Although the best performance clearly was Tilda Swinton as Mason, a prime minister sort of individual. She's almost unrecognizable, with a Barty Crouch-esque lip lick. So many excellent actors giving mind-blowing performances.
I like the theme that humans look for quick and immediate solutions. One spoiler: the gas released to help repair the ozone and undo the environmental damage causing global warming ended up creating the ice age. It then is mentioned briefly later on that the creator, owner, captain of the train Wilford (Ed Harris) knew that the gas would be defective and not work. Instead of warning or protesting, he went on building his super train. The easiest solution, the one that would work the fastest, ended up causing humanity their earth, their societies, their everything. Instead of making inherent, longer lasting changes, the world attempted to take the easiest way out. In the end, it became their end.
Most of the movie almost seems predictable up until the last half hour or so, when it all just goes crazy and all these revelations are made, and you are left sitting there with your mouth open, wandering what the heck just happened? where the hell is the rewind button? In the end, the predictability of the movie almost seems done purposefully, that in some ways the director wanted you to think that this was all done before, just another remix of a kind, leading to a similar ending. well, that is not what occurs. All I say can is, I recommend this movie. Very, very well done with a great script and outstanding performances. A little bit gory and some very disturbing story lines. Not for the faint of heart.
It made me think I've got a lot going for me. So what if one boy in the thousands of years of mankind doesn't love me? At least I'm not on a train going around and around a frozen world with an arm cut off and a dictator at the engine feeding me jello. For real. I think things could be so much worse for me now.
So I decided date night with myself. It's good to treat myself and be comfortable doing things on my own. After the brutal and cynic post I left earlier today, I was feeling raw and angry and unhappy. A pick me up was definitely required. Definitely. This eerie, snowy movie with the hunk Chris Evans was really what I needed to distract me. Well, let me tell you, it worked. The movie lived up to it's expectations. I will try to avoid spoilers but I make no promises.
The premise of the movie is humankind created their own deathly Ice age that supposedly wiped out all living species on the plant and everything plunged into unlivable temperatures surrounded by ice and snow and wind. Wow. If that wasn't bad enough the last dregs of humanity are stuck on this locomotive that circles the world. It has an eternal engine which allows it to keep propelling itself, without breaking down. Well, the worst of the worst are at the back of the train, living in cramped, dirty, impoverished conditions. They are beaten and made to live in hovels, if you could even call them that. Curtis (Chris Evans) wants to lead a revolt to the front of the train (the engine) and take control and spread the wealth they believe is in the front. Well they follow through and in the end Curtis does make it to the front. I can't explain much of the in between bits without giving much away.
I can say that Octavia Spencer's performance was deep and heartfelt, she was excellent. Although the best performance clearly was Tilda Swinton as Mason, a prime minister sort of individual. She's almost unrecognizable, with a Barty Crouch-esque lip lick. So many excellent actors giving mind-blowing performances.
I like the theme that humans look for quick and immediate solutions. One spoiler: the gas released to help repair the ozone and undo the environmental damage causing global warming ended up creating the ice age. It then is mentioned briefly later on that the creator, owner, captain of the train Wilford (Ed Harris) knew that the gas would be defective and not work. Instead of warning or protesting, he went on building his super train. The easiest solution, the one that would work the fastest, ended up causing humanity their earth, their societies, their everything. Instead of making inherent, longer lasting changes, the world attempted to take the easiest way out. In the end, it became their end.
Most of the movie almost seems predictable up until the last half hour or so, when it all just goes crazy and all these revelations are made, and you are left sitting there with your mouth open, wandering what the heck just happened? where the hell is the rewind button? In the end, the predictability of the movie almost seems done purposefully, that in some ways the director wanted you to think that this was all done before, just another remix of a kind, leading to a similar ending. well, that is not what occurs. All I say can is, I recommend this movie. Very, very well done with a great script and outstanding performances. A little bit gory and some very disturbing story lines. Not for the faint of heart.
It made me think I've got a lot going for me. So what if one boy in the thousands of years of mankind doesn't love me? At least I'm not on a train going around and around a frozen world with an arm cut off and a dictator at the engine feeding me jello. For real. I think things could be so much worse for me now.
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