Bong Joon-ho begins fostering a sense of rebellion during the earliest stages of the film, where the poorest sector of the train must live in sordid filth and overcapacity. He achieves the birth of a revolution against their condition through a claustrophobic camera angle, a dark color palette, and a symbolic prop that all portray the dehumanization of the tail members caused by the structure of such capitalist systems. One of the first scenes in Snowpiercer illustrates a seemingly routine check
able to warn audiences of the dire consequences of a major issue by describing, and often exaggerating, its possible future impacts on humanity, in a frightening yet recognisable interpretation of our world. In the film Snowpiercer (Bong, 2013), director Bong Joon Ho constructs an extreme representation of our capitalist society through the segregated social classes of humanity’s remaining survivors who, after a failed counter-measure against global warming, loop the world endlessly on a train and
society. The middle cars of the train are treated with extensive time in this section of the film, reflecting the actual density of the middle class in the social hierarchy. Bong Joon-ho’s concentration on the middle to upper class allows him to convey his message to what he sees as the bulk of a stratified class system. Again, Joon-ho plays with similar areas of film technique: setting, props, and color, to reveal the truth behind
hierarchal society. Snowpiercer spends extensive time covering the the middle cars of the train, reflecting the actual density of the middle class in the social hierarchy. Bong Joon-ho’s concentration on the middle to upper class allows him to convey his message to what he sees as the bulk of a stratified class system. Again, Joon-ho plays with similar areas of film technique: setting, props, and color, to reveal the truth behind the middle and higher class through the lower
mirror our present-day world and the nuances of the technology that shapes it. This essay aims to posit Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer and Boots Riley’s Sorry to Bother You critiques the utilization of technology in shaping modern labor practices, specifically corporate exploitation and elite control, and thereby contributing to widening disparities in racial and wealth class inequalities. Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer presents a post-apocalyptic, dystopian world following a climate crisis. In the
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
to become block-busters. Romance, low causalities, good-looking actors, and happy endings are trademarks of block-buster films. Audiences can leave dystopian worlds behind after two hours. In contrast, Snowpiercer challenges this trend. Bong Joon-Ho directs this 2013 Korean film. Snowpiercer draws inspiration from a French graphic novel published in 1982, Le Transperceneige. It remains
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In his short story “Hymie’s Bull”, Ralph Ellison uses the story of the bums living on the train as an allegory for racial tension and classism in the Great Depression Era of America. A white bum named Hymie murders a “bull” on the train, jumps off, and escapes. When the train stops, and the Bull is found dead on the side of the tracks, they line the black bums up outside the train. They are planning to put one of them to death for the murder, although none of them committed the crime. Ellison uses