Snowpiercer
トーク情報- yunagashiki
yunagashiki I look at this film as an homage to the visual style of Terry Gilliam (and the film makers tip their hand a bit with a character named Gilliam) mixed with the spirit of 60's-70's dystopian films like Logan's Run and Soylent Green. It's a violent dark film but maintains a subtle comedic or light hearted tone either with strange supporting characters or interesting reveals as the story develops. At least until the very end. The best scifi has relevant social commentary and this one is particularly prescient bringing into stark relief society's class system and the 'reality' that society's power brokers impose on the masses to control it. That kind of message can be pretty heavy handed but the filmmaker stays true to the story he's telling so it's easy to get caught up in the grounded gritty hyper reality of the characters' life struggles. As the story develops, each car in the train reveals new and interesting realities and fantastic visuals. Like a story builds section to section, the train makes an obvious story telling device but it's also great. The Terry Gilliam influence can be seen in various visual effects, set design and the Tilda Swinton character had an undeniable Gilliam quality. The end worked and suited the story but it felt a little like it didn't live up to expectations. The movie has its issues most notably involving the main assassin character. The scene where he has a long distance gun fight with Chris Evans' main character from one train car to another as the train is rounding a curve so the two shooters can see each other across the space created by the curving train feels over the top and unrealistic for the kind of universe the film creates. The assassin then has a second life which always seems gimmicky after you think a character is dead. But overall I thought the characters, the acting the story and the visuals were excellent and made for a great movie.
- yunagashiki
yunagashiki I can only see this work if it's a one season show. If they try to stretch the story over several seasons until the show gets cancelled I'm not going to give it a try.