Is "Snowy train" an inspirational movie?

In order to solve the environmental problems caused by the greenhouse effect, 79 countries around the world have successively launched refrigerants called cw-7 in the atmosphere. The result backfired and the global temperature plummeted into an ice age. The plunge in temperature allowed humans to eat the bad fruit they sowed, causing mass human extinction.

The surviving humans boarded the never-stopping train made by Wilford Industries, which traveled 438,000 kilometers on the railroad all year round. And the train car has a clear class distinction, in this train to see a condensed small society.

This is the movie "Snow Train", which is based on the award-winning French science fiction comic of the same name from the 1986 Angouleme International Comics Festival. The director first saw this award-winning comic and was eager to turn the story into a movie.

Director Bong Joon-ho is an outstanding Korean director who directed "Parasite" which took the Palme d'Or at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. It brought him into the international and public eye.

And "Snow Train" is also one of his excellent works, which was nominated for 7 awards at the Asia Pacific Film Festival.

Many people interpret this film from classism, but in fact this film is also an inspirational film, so I want to interpret this film from this perspective. (There are plenty of spoilers below)

The rear end car of the train symbolizes the underclass world. Will you follow Curtis and rush to the front car?

In this never-ending perpetual motion train has multiple cars, the more advanced and luxurious the front car will be, on the contrary, the more back of the car is more rundown.

Although more fortunate than the humans who did not have the opportunity to get on board, they still have a chance to live. But they live a less than human life in the back of the car, 17 years as a day eating the same food - protein paste, if you make a mistake will be cruelly punished.

Curtis, who also lived in the rear compartment, was fed up with such a life, and he was eager to rush to the front compartment and change things. So he tried to persuade the people in the back carriage to join the uprising, more people are stronger, they can definitely rush to the front carriage.

Follow Curtis rushed forward, may face unknown variables and dangers, but can escape this less-than-human life.

Do not follow Curtis rush, will still keep the original life, do not have to change, but also do not have to worry about the unknown variables ahead. It's a hard life, but at least it's alive.

The rear compartment is like a comfort zone, the comfort zone does not necessarily mean a comfortable circle, just this circle makes you feel that you still make do, do not want to change.

The people in the trunk have been living here for 17 years, and are familiar with everything here, and have found ways to make themselves more comfortable. If they are afraid of change and resign themselves to the status quo, they will always have to stay in this rear compartment and will not be able to see the world outside the compartment and will not know how luxurious the front compartment is.

But the rear compartment are some people who are not resigned to the status quo, they follow Curtis to prepare to escape from the rear compartment things, waiting for the opportunity.

Seize the opportunity to jump out of the comfort zone

Want to rush to the front of the carriage, only when the soldiers come over to open the door patrol to have a chance. They were still preparing their things when the soldiers came over early and disrupted their plans. At this point the opportunity was right in front of them, should they seize this opportunity or should they wait for the next time when the soldiers came again?

Huan Kuan once said this: The wise man changes according to the time, the one who knows follows the matter and makes the system.

Curtis still chose to seize the opportunity this time, walked quickly to the soldier, took his gun to his head, found that really as he thought, the soldier's gun has no bullets, they are many people, and quickly subdued the soldiers.

Already come the opportunity not to grasp, then the next time do not know when to come, lightning will not strike twice in a row in one place.

Against all odds, being in the darkness still means believing in the light

They went to several carriages very smoothly because they had the help of the experts who built this train. But when they went to one of the carriages, they found dozens of masked men there. Why were the men masked? Because the train would go through a long tunnel and they were carrying night vision goggles that could block their way to the carriage in front of them.

Once in the tunnel, the people at the bottom began to be helpless, attacked in the dark by the big men with night vision goggles. But Curtis remembered that there were still matches, let the people in the back of the car lit torches, torches passed one after another, like the Olympic torches to pass hope, so that the people at the bottom see the light again. The fire of a star can start a fire, and the big man was soon down to the ground.

Desire and extravagance make it easy to get lost, and to clear your head you must escape

The further they went, the more they saw a world they had not seen in the past 17 years. There were ocean carriages, plant carriages, beauty salons... And a rare sushi to eat. At the very front of the train the carriage is still a bar where people sing and dance nightly, making people paper drunk.

The people in this carriage are the richest people in the whole train, they don't have to worry about poverty, they eat and drink enough, they don't have worries, and they put their minds on having fun when they are full. Such a life makes people lost, and people who indulge in it are parasites who do not contribute to society.

Curtis wanted to change the status quo of the people living in the bottom compartment through himself, but because of this action, he lost many important people around him. So he is eager to solve Wilford and make him pay for his evil deeds, and this desire overwhelms him.

When he hears Wilford say that he wants him to be the heir of this train, he starts to get lost and slowly falls into Wilford's verbal trap. He thought that if he was the manager of the train, he would manage the train well.

Living in the front carriage of this train are some people with precious status, entitled to benefit. The director wants to express that in the pursuit of fame and fortune, it is also easy to be swept away.

However, the dream is beautiful, the reality is very boneheaded. Once he is the heir, he is no longer Curtis, but the next Wilford.

While he was still lost, the girl opened the floor, and under the floor there was a small body manipulating the operation of this train. Curtis suddenly woke up, not at all as good as Wilford said, ignited the clay if the carriage exploded, out of nature.

At a time of confusion, perhaps an alternative path, perhaps another path can go on. Just like in the movie, the people in the car already have a stereotype of the outside world, feel that the outside world of ice and snow, it is impossible for human habitation. But not to try, how do you know? Go outside only to find that the snow outside has begun to melt, the appearance of the polar bear symbolizes the hope of rebirth.