My Dearest Reader, There is no film like Snowpiercer . My only regret is that I did not watch it sooner. After watching director Bong Joon-ho's Parasite , I wanted to see more of this world through his eyes, and this film did not disappoint. It's all I've been able to really think about since I saw it. From the very beginning, Snowpiercer is quick to establish the dire living situation that the tail end members of the train are in. They eat disgusting blocks of unknown substance. Their quarters are cold, dark and crammed with people. Even the children, who are called "train babies" because their existence has solely been on this train, live in terrible conditions. Yet, despite this horrific reality that they are in, the people remain hopeful. That's the beauty of hope in post-apocalyptic films like this. They can be on one end of the hope spectrum or the other: On one side, the films protagonists may be hopeless but stay strong and b...
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