It turns out that, at least to me, this is a traditional adventure film that is seriously overrated. If you throw the exquisite set of carriages in the movie into a computer game, it is an ordinary level game. Of course, the drastic changes to the original French comics gave the film a seemingly wonderful post-apocalyptic society. The very few survivors of the New Ice Age are strictly divided into classes in a never-ending train. The rich enjoy the top carriages with gardens, spas, bars and nightclubs, while the poor live in the cramped and dirty rear of the train. In the dirty dark space, in the middle is a large group of guards who maintain the absolute boundaries of the class. "Hat on your head, shoes on your feet, you can't put your shoes on your head, right?" Mason, the female minister who executed the punishment, educates the lower class. However, to maintain the fragile ecological balance of trains, there must be cruel elimination, but under the mysterious authoritarian forces, these screenings have become more efficient and cruel.
Of course, resistance followed oppression, and it fell heavily on "Captain America" (starring Chris Evans once played "Captain America"). The movie has naturally become another anti-system story that is already well-known. Whether it is anti-system or dystopia, this type of science fiction film can always be popular and popular. Thinking deeper, this cleverly set up "doomsday train" can bring up the more important question of absolute equality and relative fairness. The lower-class passengers who pursue absolute equality have gradually become a mob. After their revolutionary leaders stubbornly broke through the iron gates, they almost got into the mold of a new generation of dictators. Overthrowing the old world and dictating the new world, this train of "Insurrection-Despotism" has been running for thousands of years in Chinese history, smashing a path of tragic fate. Changing to an internationally produced science fiction film is nothing more than changing from a steam diesel locomotive to an electric and automated high-speed rail.
No matter how simple the original intention, how heroic the sacrifices, and how the sun and the moon changed, if the revolutionaries who succeeded each other want to continue to maintain this last residence of mankind, they have to continue an efficient exploitation system. Ming Jun, who is relatively fair and willing, appears. All people in the train, regardless of class, new or old, have long been institutionalized. Only Minsu, played by Song Kanghao, who has experience in human society survival before the end, would not want to play the customs clearance game of carriages. Through some signs of climate change outside the window, he felt that it was time to break the door next to him and jump out of the train. To challenge to survive. According to director Feng Junhao, this is the only "good guy" hidden in the movie.
But, so far as the metaphor is concerned, what Lumierian-style purely visual spectacle is there? Besides, the space is so closed and the class is so clear, all metaphors have become superficial manifestations. If there are people who want to interpret it from the perspective of international politics and historical research, it might as well be considered a pleasure.
In fact, all anti-system films that require a bit of brainpower from creation to viewing are far from pure fun. And the so-called profound and timeless meanings they have been pursuing tirelessly have long been explained by masterpieces such as Brave New World and 1984. Human nature and society will always be the same. So, at least for me, not only "Snow Country Train" is seriously overrated, it's the same kind that has almost established a monument in film history-"V for Vendetta", "Wonderful Fantasy" and even "The Matrix"- It's all the same.
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