Economic Inequality In Snowpiercer

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Trains have been in movies from the beginning; the beginning of cinema itself, as well as fromthe beginning of action films. Trains provide speed, motion and power within an enclosed environmentthat impose a limit and allowed danger. Bong Joon Ho's Snowpiercer stands out as a modern examplethat follows this concept while witnessing more of environmentally-focused science fiction andeconomic discrimination. The director follows an age-long tradition to pack a thrilling and excitingmovie while exploiting the film's setting to an extraordinary effect. However, based on the Frenchcomic Le Transperceneige the movie dispenses much of the original comic while keeping its centralsignificance intact. Set in AD 2031, the entire world is frozen except …show more content…

Each segment of the train holds new surprises for the group who have to battletheir way through. All of these fights are demonstrated in scenes of hatchet fights between peoplecarrying torches and individuals wearing night-vision goggles. This conflict is the fundamental elementof action throughout the movie. A revolution underway with the elites inhabiting the front of the trainand the poor inhabiting the tail the train symbolizes a complete ecosystem which must depend on itsbalance; everything needs be regulated including air, water, food, and people.Economic inequality, also known as income inequality is the extent to which income is distributedunevenly in a group of individuals, growing disparity between economic classes, loss of individualism,and government dysfunction are the primary contributing factors that prevent the equalization ofeconomic equality in the movie. This is illustrated in the film when the lower class at the tail end weresatisfied with protein bars made from recycled worms that were made into bars while the elites are fedexcess nutrient rich food. Burdened and disciplined by the hierarchy notably Minister Mason(TildaSwinton) and her brutal guards tail end incumbents can be considered as outcasts. Since the onlypurpose of their existence remains to serve the regime. For instance, this is displayed in the moviewhen youngsters were occasionally held when they reach a certain height. Especially when Curtis andEdgar (Jamie …show more content…

While passing throughthe car, the teacher behaves a little strange, being brainwashed by the aristocracies they were watchinga uncanny movie regarding Wilford, the inventor of Snowpiercer and his train engine. Sequentially, thepregnant teacher draws a machine gun on them. In the meantime, Curtis' mentor back at the tail iskilled Gilliam (John Hurt). Which reveals that elites were propagandizing the population with theirbeliefs and their privileged lifestyle. Considering the violation ends in the premature death of theindividual designates how the elites sustain the environment to their favor. Thus, implying the claim ofthe destruction of individualism.In the end, Curtis hijack the Engine room while the doors to the engine room open Wilford, (EdHarris) the engine maker is inside. He unveils why the children were chosen since they were the rightsize to sustain the engine, he picks a couple and then forces them into tiny spaces in order to clean outthe gunk within the engine. Wilford also explains that he and Gilliam came up with the clan warfare asa means of population control, yet Curtis had been too successful and killed too many front-enders,hence why Wilford had Gilliam executed. Besides, he also explains that he is impressed with Curtisand wanted him to replace him, but Curtis refuses and decides to blast the engine, but he was unable toshut the engine doors so his daughter holds the

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