Snowpiercer
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buyodasuka Since watching SNOWPIERCER, I have spent a good deal of time promoting it to friends, convincing them to seek it out and watch it. There was very little advertising for the film (that I saw) and I want to make sure it gets the attention it deserves because SNOWPIERCER is just awesome. I went in blind, having never read the graphic novel (or heard of it, for that matter) and only knowing that the film had some glowing reviews behind it. I was blown away. It's a gritty film that doesn't let up until the end credits roll. It starts simple enough but grows more complicated as the film's team of freedom fighters edge closer and closer to their destination. The film is set in the near future where the population of Earth had attempted to combat the onset of global warming/climate change but instead cast the planet into an eternal winter where temperatures are too low for life to survive. The planet's sole survivors live aboard a train with a perpetual engine, running it's looping course around the world. Life outside the train is deemed impossible. Society on the train has been sorted out so the affluent passengers live in luxury at the head of the train and the poor are crammed into the rear. As is generally the case, the poor passengers are the rear are tired of living under the boot heel of the rich and plans are set in motion to take control of the engine front of the train.
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buyodasuka The first thing I noticed about SNOWPIERCER was how incredible the how film looks. The frozen world, with its remnants of the former civilization peeking through the ice and snow, is amazing though there were times when I felt the CG behind it's creation shined through a little. That might just be because the bright white outer world is such high contrast with the dark, filthy confines of the train to which we're first introduced. The production design on this movie was top notch and I hope the team won some acclaim for their work. The train is a character all it's own with a variety of different environments within its compartments as the team make their way from the cramped, cluttered mess of the rear cabin to comfort of the head, including an aquarium with functioning ecosystem and a colorful school for the children where one of the greatest sequences in the film goes down. I would recommend this film to anyone and everyone for the fantastic visuals alone but the film, thankfully, boasts an equally impressive cast of characters and brutal action. Make no mistake; SNOWPIERCER earns it's R-rating. And there are some dark revelations near the end of the film that will make you cringe harder than any of the bloody deaths leading up to it. The movie takes the common tale of class warfare and tells it in a gut-punchingly effective manner, giving us one of the best movies of 2014 that most people will not have seen.
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buyodasuka Finally, a quick rundown of the film's perfect casting: Chris Evans is the film's hero, Curtis. Curtis is a full 180-degree shift from Evans' role as Marvel's Captain America. Curtis is a broken man whose horrible life has finally pushed him to action. He's ruthless and focused. He has one purpose: get to the engine or die trying, there are no alternatives. His mentor is Gilliam, played by John Hurt. Gilliam is the voice of reason in the rear compartment, revered by the poor masses. Jamie Bell is Curtis's closest friend and confidant, Edgar. Edgar is eager for action against the forward passengers and it's the cool confidence in Curtis that keeps him from acting out prematurely. Octavia Spencer and Ewen Bremner provide additional humanity to the struggle as rear passengers who join the revolution when their children are abducted to the front under mysterious circumstances. The film's most memorable performance comes from Tilda Swinton as the voice of the front, Mason. Mason is bizarre and Tilda is fantastic. With strange dentures giving her protruding overbite and her pompous, proper attitude, she scolds the rear passengers as an adult would to a child. She doesn't flinch when a rear passenger is punished and his arm is forced through a porthole into the subfreezing temperatures outside; she merely continues with her speech about how grateful these poor souls should be for the graciousness of Wilford. Wilford is the mysterious figure at the head of the train. The inventor of the perpetual engine. Essentially a god to the inhabitants of the front. Curtis aims to take down this "god" and his revolution makes for one amazing movie. Seriously, go watch SNOWPIERCER.
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