Let me get this out of the way: I always travel in whatever the cheapest seat is. I’m not complaining, just making a statement that I can’t even imagine flying in first class. Perhaps that’s why “Snowpiercer” was so poignant to me. Bong Joon Ho loves to add questions of morality into his movies, in this one looking at the class divide. And it’s brutally obvious that the divide exists.
And I can’t stop thinking how true this is. Now clearly we’re not all on a post-apocalyptic train circling the Earth, but look around. Jeff Bezos is about to become a trillionaire. Meanwhile millions are out of their jobs, out of health insurance, and are being forced to live in ways that shouldn’t be. It may sound silly, but if this were a train, well, the class divide would be very apparent.
While I mentioned this in my review, I think it’s worth noting things that aren’t shown. In creative writing, you’re taught to show, not tell. If you want to show somebody is an asshole, you show that, you don’t just have someone say “Look at that asshole”. Yet we unveil a whole new level of that in this movie. Near the end as they discuss the first month on the train we find out everything that went on, from mutilation to cannibalism. It’s a truly disgusting prospect.
We are very used to having walls built around us. Walls that shield us from others, to remind us that we are in our place and we should stay there. And I ask why? Why should we be contained to live in the tail end when the head has steak?
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