Movie - Snowpiercer - not a review just puzzled.

[JanMichael]

I watched this movie last night and it was at one time or another funny, tragic, dystopian, dramatic, funny again, then inspiring.

It seemed to be a microcosm of the current issues in Capitalism. I.e. a few at the front of the train and the rest are f*cked.

Any other folks on the same train (boat) of confusion?

[bigwillq]

1. How was Tilda Swinton? (nt)

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[JanMichael]

2. She was awesome. She played the perfect Nazi nanny type.

Paraphrasing she basically told everyone that they deserved the shit they were eating, their place on the train, and piss off.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. Tilda Swinton struck me as Ayn Rand incarnate in that movie.

God, she was creepy.

[dilby]

3. Great movie and it is a social commentary on capitalism.

There are more than enough resources for everyone on the train to live comfortably. But you have the front of the train with all the wealth then you have the back with the poverty and finally the middle of the train who hopes to someday move to the front but doesn't want to rock the boat and end up in the back. Then you have those who are actually in control who keep the illusion going.

[NV Whino]

4. Loved this movie

And I didn't find it confusing at all. It's a perfect metaphor for our times of the 1% vs the 99%.

[hunter]

6. I wish more people read the Bible as metaphor and allegory...

... I can easily see a Fundamentalist Religious sect developing in the post Snowpiercer world that tries to model itself after life on the train, believing the train was some kind of Garden of Eden, with Wilford, the train's creator as their God, and Curtis as the Satan who caused Man to be expelled from the train.

I dare say the same about the Quran too.

Fundamentalists never appreciate the texture, the deeper meanings, or even the humor of the stories they claim to live by.