Whether you like the movie or not, it lets audience contemplate on many topics. I watched with one of my friends, and we debated about the movie's quality and discussed about how 'Snowpiercer' portrays the society.
I see many reviews complaining about the ending, but in my opinion, it is the ending that can happen only in the movie, giving the most hope for the remaining two (Yona and Timmy). In real life, complete reconstruction of one society never happens because shifting the whole paradigm requires so much energy just like bombing the thickest gate in the train. Sometimes coup and revolution succeeds, relocating the head the tail, or the tail who works hard and dirty to get to the top becomes the head itself. However, the director is smart and creative enough to change the vertical and linear journey from the tail to the engine to the whole new dimension and universe, taking us outside of the train at the ending. I understand people's disappointment though because what they have pursued as the 'goal' or the 'end' for an hour and a half becomes not that important. I am rather disappointed at the pace of the story not the ending. The first half of the movie is slow paced, a little boring and stretched while the last half of the movie hastefully rushes to the closing, creating a leap of logic. For example, Yona suddenly decides to lift up the floor tile to tell the audience where kids work OUT OF NOWHERE. Wilford explains the whole concept of the train and its analogy to the society so tightly in very short time.
The movie succeeds in describing our society with honesty to the level of blatancy and inhumanity. Economic bottom suffers the pain equivalent to cutting of own arm in our everyday lives. Politicians and capitalists do their best to keep the status quo in more delicate and tender way than Wilford's. What Wilford says must be disgusting but it can also be true. The head wants to regulate how the resources are distributed and one's position in the society. It can be hurtful, painful, and unjustifiable if you are at the tail section, but what if you are one of the first class passenger? Don't you want to help Wilford to keep the way things are like Minister Mason or Teacher? The deeper I dig in with the questions like this, the more inhumane I feel.
I see many reviews complaining about the ending, but in my opinion, it is the ending that can happen only in the movie, giving the most hope for the remaining two (Yona and Timmy). In real life, complete reconstruction of one society never happens because shifting the whole paradigm requires so much energy just like bombing the thickest gate in the train. Sometimes coup and revolution succeeds, relocating the head the tail, or the tail who works hard and dirty to get to the top becomes the head itself. However, the director is smart and creative enough to change the vertical and linear journey from the tail to the engine to the whole new dimension and universe, taking us outside of the train at the ending. I understand people's disappointment though because what they have pursued as the 'goal' or the 'end' for an hour and a half becomes not that important. I am rather disappointed at the pace of the story not the ending. The first half of the movie is slow paced, a little boring and stretched while the last half of the movie hastefully rushes to the closing, creating a leap of logic. For example, Yona suddenly decides to lift up the floor tile to tell the audience where kids work OUT OF NOWHERE. Wilford explains the whole concept of the train and its analogy to the society so tightly in very short time.
The movie succeeds in describing our society with honesty to the level of blatancy and inhumanity. Economic bottom suffers the pain equivalent to cutting of own arm in our everyday lives. Politicians and capitalists do their best to keep the status quo in more delicate and tender way than Wilford's. What Wilford says must be disgusting but it can also be true. The head wants to regulate how the resources are distributed and one's position in the society. It can be hurtful, painful, and unjustifiable if you are at the tail section, but what if you are one of the first class passenger? Don't you want to help Wilford to keep the way things are like Minister Mason or Teacher? The deeper I dig in with the questions like this, the more inhumane I feel.