ravenwyld there are several by different people. I wonder if they’re referring to one in particular. The one I watched did break it down and I can see how Snowpiercer is a sequel.
I like the symbolism of the arm in the film. Near the start, Chris says he can't lead because he still has his arm. Later we find out that's because people began giving their arms and legs as food when the people were starving, but Chris did not, so still having an arm is a symbol of selfishness and that he didn't make a personal sacrifice to aid his tail-end comrades. At the end, he uses his arm to stop the engine and finally repay that debt to finish the revolution.
more analysis in this comment than in the video above :D:D:D i also like how edward comments on steak only a few times in the begining and we only see steak at the end as wilson cooks it for Curtis. The film is so well crafted that there are is much artistry for food for thought. I guess i thought this EXPLAINED BREAKDOWN and ANAYSIS would be a bit more in depth?
@@taobaoexpert123 is it really though? i mean literally 74% of the tail passengers got executed, everything would’ve remained the same had they not blown up the door.
The ending just made me think that there's no way in hell two kids who've lived their lives on a damn train are going to survive. Nope. They'll get eaten by polar bears.
Dude... the fact that you can't even see how it is supposed to deliver a message, and not a freaking documentary, it just shows that you are too narrow minded to understand the movie in every single aspect.
I would have thought that too, but the girls dad was literally whispering survival and information about the outside world her whole life. I also think he chose to make the girl the older child because girls usually develop faster cognitively and by the time they are in their 30-20 (they’re ten years apart) they could definitely procreate, probably by then the earth will have melted significantly. I also think that since all they have ever known is survival, they must have some good skills for it. I can’t imagine she won’t go through kronole withdrawals though...
@GodSon Bugs are eaten all over the world. In different cultures they're normal to be eaten, I mean at least they camaflouged the them to made into bars. They're good for you too but honestly I'd be scared to eat one.
I like the polar bear and its symbolism. They are apex predators, at the top of a food chain, which includes fish and marine mammals. So the ecosystems have revived enough to support large mammals, which means food sources for humans. The survivors are still confronting an apex predator, like the humans on the train. And they are at the lower end of the food chain, once again.
Wtf am i the only one that realized these animals never died so the cold was never real? Unless evolution took place from single cell organisms back to polar bears in 17 years
But that doesn't actually follow, because polar bears don't grow from spores, they come from other polar bears. Thus, their presence indicates only that polar bears were always able to survive outside. The world might indeed be fit for human habitation (it doesn't seem like it, but maybe), but the presence of polar bears doesn't indicate that.
Yeah I don’t think I watched it until 2016 and was annoyed at myself for not seeing it. For some reason I thought it was some Percy jackson type of thing
Dude, this movie was intense. Chris Evans's knows what people taste like. And man, this continuation of the willy Wonka and chocolate factory story line is the best ever!
Joker made a billion because it's Batman universe after all, everyone was already hyped. Was that movie called "The clown" with no connection at all with DC, it would've made a lot less.
Guto Mesquita Exactly, and im not criticizing joker as i love it, but anyone familiar enough with cinema, knows Jokers plot and setting wasn’t unique and undone before. The main selling point was the fact it was *the* Joker, there’s alot of better class struggle movies than joker, one which, was released the same year, and is by the same director of snowpiercer, Parasite. I still think Joker is an incredible take on Jokers character, probably top 3 comic related movie for me. I Just dislike people who think Joker is the first and only movie of its type, as the original comment is implying.
@Jack K Pollitical revelant has nothing to do with the entertainment value of the movies,the only decent thing about joker is joaquin acting,the script aint even anything close to TDK has given us
I love how brutal and raw the characters were in Snowpiecer. There weren't any moments where there was an annoying character trying to spare a captured enemy which does happen a lot in more family-friendly films and that is what I love about Snowpiercer.
Its one of those rare movies that after the first time you see it, its stuck in your head having you think about it for a long time afterwards! I hope the tv show does it justice!
Most of "Explained" videos are 99% summary and 1 or 2 lines at the end that vaguely states some of the obvious inferences from reading or listening to that summary.
@@jamiestewart48 The human waste served as food is obviously the worst one. Apart from its grossness, it has no nutritional value and full of harmful bacteria. But insects, on the other hand, are considered one of the highly nutritious foods. They're rich in protein, fibre, healthy fat, essential micronutrients, and low amount of carbohydrates. They are already eaten as food in many cultures.
I enjoyed the Dan Harmon version better from the Rick and Marty episode a couple of weeks ago. I seriously doubt if this film fits “the Hero’s Journey” interpretation of Joseph Campbell, but Harmon says more in a half hour than this film could in two hours. But I like your channel, HS... 👍🏼
wrong... it not godhood story.. you don't know original is base on french so the train is france.. the wilford is the king of france and the whole thing just old france royalty system..... the end is bullshit since concept of adam and eve don't work with mordern human... we can not survive on inbreed and few set of dna... we human need so many big set of dna to keep us going....
The ending is so STUPID. The 'hero' killed everyone. It is nothing but snow outside. No fields, no farm land, no NOTHING. Any survivor is dead with a week.
"Repopulating" the human population thing itself is worse than hell, although reaching that part is almost impossible. I would say even the ending of The Mist movie is more "hopeful" and "postive" than this ending. (I know I'm late)
One of the best Bong Jon Hoo movies imo, alongside "The Host", "Memories of Murder", & of course "Parasite." I see that you prepared yourself for the upcoming Netflix TV series. Although I kinda a bit worried with it.
I Love how people analyze this film, and they forgot to cite the original source... Snowpiercer is based on Le Transperceneige a french graphic novel published around 1982. The end of the movie is the beginning of the second book collection "The Explorers", in the whole book the crew is send to find a radio signal, possibly from another human settlement. Sadly at the end of "The Explorers" you find that there was a second parallel train, and that the signal was just an automatic audio beacon. There is a third book, "The Crossing" that I haven't the chance to read, and on top of that there is a fourth volume called "Terminus" that concludes the series. Also if you think really in the sociological meaning of the back and front of the train cars, depending of were the beholder is standing the back car of the train could be the extreme left, and the engine the extreme right.. But if the beholder is on the other side it will see the opposite the back of the car is the right and the engine the left. Which makes any political system atrocious is not even the philosophical foundations is the real human application, the perspective of those in power. But until now, I am still seeing a lot of lies, deception and death on those who govern with doctrines from the left side of the political spectrum. Unfortunately this movie was considered just a dystopian scifi action flick... But people couldn't see the amount of layers and reading on this film.
As much as I enjoyed the beginning of the movie, I just couldn’t force myself to love the rest of it. Humanity was doomed the moment the final gate was opened. Those kids at the end are definitely not going to survive and everyone else just fucking died apparently.
Well you have to be able to suspend disbelief in the first place as there is no way a train could be self sustaining like that. Very entertaining though. How would you have ended it?
You know how the girl was holding the kid while they stared at the polar bear and it stared back? It looks like a role reversal, where, instead of a polar bear representing the threat of extinction as global warming destroys their habitat, it's the humans who have doomed themselves. Now, the Polar Bear was the one that was gonna survive.
I love this movie. Parasite and Memories of Murder are Bong Joon-ho’s best work, but, personal, Snowpiercer is my favorite Bong Joon-ho film. I think this is Chris Evans’ best performance too.
What I thought didn't make sense was when Wilfred told Curtis he was the first human being to walk through the entire train. But how was that true when Claude (or anybody who works for the front end of the train I guess) went to the tail to grab the kids to work in the engine at the front? 🤔
My impression is that Wilford was lying about working together with Gilliam to manipulate Curtis. Curtis knows that Gilliam holds children’s lives as sacred (sacrificed his arm for one), and therefor once Curtis sees how Wilford uses the children, he knows that Gilliam and Wilford do not share values and couldn’t be working together. This is the exact moment where he turns on Wilford. Any opinions on this?
I agree, also in the film Gilliam says to Curtis when u see Wilford don’t let him talk and to cut out his tongue. I think this is because he knows Wilford will manipulate Curtis.
@@joshuasimons869 That's what I was thinking too but there was details in their conversations that Wilford knew and we saw that there is in fact a phone hidden in the rear of the train. My guess is that Gilliam was a double agent which is why he ended up getting killed
Let me get this straight. There were only two survivors in the train After the train wreckage . An Asian lady and a young African American boy and they populated the planet??? This was a very underrated movie.
Can someone please tell me what was the kids doing by shoving their right arm in the machine. Underneath & the front engine capsule. It never explained what they were doing or how they forced to help operate the train. Is it just putting their little right arm in & out of a engine compartment to make a train on going??
From what I’ve seen it looks pretty good, think the reviews so far have been pretty positive (I’m hoping it’s good anyway because I’m covering it for the next ten weeks 😂😂😂)
So far the show seems like a more tame version, and a little more focused on class structure than on all of society as a whole trapped in a metal tube. Like hunger games? lol. Still I'm curious to see where it goes
First episode starts off with new stuff and plots that was not in the movie. It definitely doesn't feel like a rewatch and already the things the movie did do have had different outcomes.... and its just episode 1
The tv show takes place before the movie ( 7 years after the train departed ) and the first episode was quite good will be interesting to see where they go with it.
Just like in "Parasite", Bong Joon-ho is brilliant in showing the ruthlessness of capitalism and how we all feel stuck in it, as though there is no other way for society to be.
You missed the message at the end, that through the avelanch, it was the Earth that got revenge by killing the last remaining vestages of humankind, except for what's required for it to start over.
2 people cannot repopulate the earth especially when its covered in ice and there are freaking polar bears wandering around. That kid would be a snack on day 1. The decision to derail the train was absolutely the worst possible decision, genocide of humanity's last chance at survival.
The polar bear meant to suggest that there was still life out there, and hence there was still hope that they, too, could somehow survive. Of course, I guess you could also perceive the polar bear as a peek into their future struggles in the food chain.
Wow, just the other day I had compared this movie to whats been happening in america lately. Excellent review. I didn't know a show was coming out from this movie! I always looked at the polar bear in the end to signify the future. Remember, those two kids never been outside. They probably don't even know how dangerous bears are. They also had been eating those bars their entire lives so they do not know what food looks like. The two dont even speak the same language. On that same note however, a polar bear had been able to survive. If the polar bear found food, then this will signify that the kids can as well. The bear's existence told the viewers of the future struggles the children will face.
BRUV, easily one of your best. You’ve done such a solid job of explaining some of the themes that I could grasp in the movie but couldn’t put into words. You’re helping to make the quarantine just a little better with every video.
Class struggle is one of the most romanticised ideas. Karl Marx to Bong Joon Ho the persistence of idea shows the seriousness of the issue and more movies should be made on it.
Another thing in the film that's relevant today: a lot of the "essential workers" I encountered who worked in grocery stores were teenagers, much like the kids in the film are powering the engine. There's this whole rhetoric that teens aren't entitled to living wages because they live with their parents, and if McDonald's paid living wages to their supposedly mostly teen work force (truth is, a lot of adults work in fast food places as well, it's not all high schoolers), the whole enterprise would go under. I think that if these people are essential to running your business, and they are because they're the ones actually "assembling" and distributing the products to consumers, then they should be paid like essential workers and not disposable cogs in a machine.
I JUST finished the movie a few minutes ago. Found out it was a movie because I started watching the tv show but the movie is sooooo much better and so underrated
The most ridiculous part of the movie is when they escape the train only to be seen by a polar bear. They eat everything and there is no way that bear wouldn't have eaten them immediately.
I showed this at our buildings Fri movie night and most of us thought it was pretty good but depressing. Your vid gave me a whole other level of appreciation for it now.
I swear, the ending should've been better. That was a pretty dumb ending to a good build up movie. I thought the perfect ending should have people walking out of the train realizing that it is safe to go outside now. But instead they only let just two people walking out, a young girl and a 5 year old boy, lol. They pretty much end the human civilization with that scene. It would been better if they just stayed on the train. The Korean man was right, the ice was melting and it is safe to go outside now. But him blowing up the train door end up killing everyone on the train except just two people lol. That was a pretty stupid writing. Curtis went all the way in the front just for nothing. I love this movie but the ending was pretty disappointing.
@@Dezzyyx but why would the writer have to make the ending so that human civilization will continue? The other option is also possible right. Humanity can end too.
I mean I feel like everyone acts like they are dead. This guy who died like 2 Times in the Sauna still stands up fighting against Namgoon in the Engine Room. The ending wad very dissappointing though not gonna lie
I watched the movie for the THIRD time yesterday and it never fails to amaze me! One of my favorite scenes was when they first got out of their compartment because it had me feeling so tense and waiting in anticipation!! Bong Joon Ho is a genius!
I think the ending would’ve been more interesting if Curtis became the conductor. It would’ve given us a lot more to think about and is a lot more realistic. Those kids definitely got eaten by polar bears.
Ok i love this movie to death, more than most movies. But theyre the only 2 survivors?? Surely 2 people couldnt repopulate an entire planet? I shudder when I think about what itd do to the gene pool
Uou forgot to mention that the revolution was not meant to kill ONLY those from the back of the train but from all the classes. It is clearly stated, that some of everyone are suppose to die to keep the ecosystem stable. It was all a plan, not just a side effect.
It was a good film and the underlying narrative was brilliant. I didn't like the end. Two people cannot repopulate and besides that what would they eat? how would they cook? how would they make fire? how would they grow plants? unfortunately the likelihood is they both died from the cold or starvation.
At the end they're looking at a polar bear, that's healthy and alive, and polar bears need like 14,000 calories a day to survive so it shows that there is life and some sort of food source out there and the older girl has like clairvoyant abilities so will be helpful, and maybe there is a possibility other humans are out there
The ending is supposed to give hope for mankind... but theres just 2 children who dont speak the same language, halfway down a bear ridden mountainside
The director mentioned in an interview that other people survived the crash so it's not just them. Also he's a child, she could probably teach him her language anyway
The polar bear at the end looks up to her next fresh meal and the possibility of a whole refrigerator full of food so she can repopulate the earth taking over as the dominant species.
You sir have taken the channel to another level with this one, though what you said is no way not unknown and felt by people who would have seen this movie and felt the societal divide, but how you put it across and tied it together..really felt good about seeing such a good video and felt bad about what we are part of... It's a fight we fight to break the wrong pillars on which society is made!!!
I watched “society of the snow” for the first time and then right after watched this. And if the first movie listed taught me anything it’s that humans cannot survive long times in those harsh mountain conditions. So those two kids 100% died and with them the last of humanity. The main character and that Asian side character who wanted to blow up the door made humanity extinct . If they were going to abort the train they couldn’t have picked a worse place to do so the mountains are will guarantee certain death and when you add polar bears to the picture yea they didn’t last two days. Hell I’d even say they didn’t last 18hrs.
So, in the end, most of the vast majority of the people die on the train (so most of what remains of humans (so far as we know)) and despite it seems like it's getting warmer, but still not very livable (because of the snow and what not) they blow up the only livable environment and most of the people. So basically ending humanity. Great plot, ending with suicide. I guess everyone on the train was technically insane.
So they blew up the train killed everyone so a 8 yr old boy and a 15 yr old girl could see a bear that would probably eat them if it didn't they froze to death by night fall good movie but the ending sucked
When you were describing Wilford, I think the word you meant to use is "beneficent" (which means "good", essentially), which is the opposite of the word you actually used, "malevolent" (which means "evil").
@@rashadjones I'm editing my comment to change the word, cuz that's what I meant to type. Thanks! Also, you're right, Wilfod was evil; I was just referring to what HS meant to say in that moment, when he was talking about the way Wilford was portrayed and thought about by the people in the front of the train.
i still wanna know what the steak is made of wilford is eating in the front of the train. there was no part with animals except fish and the cockroaches, if i remember correctly. is he eating human flesh?
@@heavyspoilers never thought of that. would be interesting to know. the eggs must have come from the front of the train when they hid the weapons underneath them.
In the graphic novel they have this artificial meat... they didn't go into that in the movie (which is very different) but your comment made me think.... 🤷♀️
Am I overthinking this or is the part where they freeze the guy’s arm and break it a plot hole? The whole point of the third act is that they’re being lied to and could survive outside the train but his arm was literal ice in 7 minutes.
You might be right but the speed of thee testing could have made it freeze faster and they could have moved closer to the equator or something. Good point though!
Thanks for the interesting analysis. There is another youtube video that interprets Snowpiercer as a retelling of Gnostic Christian theology. Too complicated to go into detail here, the idea is that the train represents the physical universe, which is our prison. An evil creator, referred to as the Demiurge, and played by Wilfred, keeps us trapped here. He has servants, called archons, that are the prison guards, the soldiers in Snowpiercer. A gnostic Christian is supposed to move to higher levels of understanding (toward the front of the train), overcome the demiurge, and escape to Heaven and join the real God. Only a few people can make it, which is shown by most of the rebels being killed along the way to the front. The kids that survive represent the idea that only the innocent can go to Heaven. Gnosticism was exterminated by orthodox Christians in the first few centuries after Christ, by killing gnostics and burning their books. A copy of some of their writings was discovered in 1945, in Egypt. It's called the Nag Hammadi Library. It contains the Gospel of Thomas, which reads more like Zen Buddhism, than Christianity. Just one of many ways to interpret this fantastic movie.
Your interpretation of the ending is wrong... the sight of the polar bear means that there IS no future. They will both be killed and eaten by wild life. They’ve lived on a train all their lives and most likely has no hunting skills.
@@ontos8914 who cares what he says. Lol. Those two are dead! He could say they get on a ufo and leave earth. We need to see it. Because common sense would say a polar bear will kill those two vs those two repopulating the world.
Let be honest great movie but they crashed the whole train and killed everyone except a Asian girl and black boy who are a decade in age apart and nothing to eat and see a polar bear in distance that most likely ate them genocide at its best lol
The way I saw this film was that rebellion only either ends in defeat or leaves the world in ruin and all that remains is uncertainty and likely further death
Gotta Say The Ending, Could We Have planned The Revolt Around The Train Being Stopped Instead Of Derailed,? Where Ever The Warmest Part Of The World Was/Is. Stoping The Train Would Have Saved Vital Resources And People To Start A New World, Seriously How Did Anyone Survive That Wreck In Freezing Temps...
the way i see it, the canibal situation shows that tail section people will still resort to taking advantage of weaker people to survive, just like how the front section people takes advantage of the tail section people. This shows that all of humanity is the same, just placed in different positions and thus have different levels of power to abuse. tail section people can blame the front section people for their situation. the front section people can only blame the ice age, which is an inescapable situation. so even if curtis accepts position of leading the entire train, will end up doing atrocities to keep the train alive.
But Gillium told Curtis not to let Wilford talk, to just cut out his tongue. Maybe he didn't want him to know the truth or maybe he had turned against Wilford after all. I think we're missing something with Claude. She's always wearing yellow and has a tape measure, even when it's not necessary. What was the deal with the Minister doing the hand motion that the 5 years olds have to do to keep the train running? Did she used to do it? That seemed weird.
UPDATE - I’ve now seen the Willy Wonka theory video and that was AMAZING! Thank you everyone for telling me about it. I definitely agree 😂😂😂👍👍👍
That video is what got me to watch Snowpiercer..... & I'm so glad I did.
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Link?
ravenwyld there are several by different people. I wonder if they’re referring to one in particular. The one I watched did break it down and I can see how Snowpiercer is a sequel.
i dont
I like the symbolism of the arm in the film. Near the start, Chris says he can't lead because he still has his arm. Later we find out that's because people began giving their arms and legs as food when the people were starving, but Chris did not, so still having an arm is a symbol of selfishness and that he didn't make a personal sacrifice to aid his tail-end comrades. At the end, he uses his arm to stop the engine and finally repay that debt to finish the revolution.
more analysis in this comment than in the video above :D:D:D i also like how edward comments on steak only a few times in the begining and we only see steak at the end as wilson cooks it for Curtis. The film is so well crafted that there are is much artistry for food for thought. I guess i thought this EXPLAINED BREAKDOWN and ANAYSIS would be a bit more in depth?
yes
Symbolism
@@taobaoexpert123 is it really though? i mean literally 74% of the tail passengers got executed, everything would’ve remained the same had they not blown up the door.
Great analysis
This film truly shows how good of an actor Chris Evans can be, outside of being superheroes
Just Some Guy without a Mustache without a doubt, I still remember first listening to him admit to his past sins, holy fuck man that scene hit heavy
I can't escape you wtf
Remember the avengers post credit scene where Chris was covering his face because of his beard for snowpiercer?
Shane yeah I wondered when i first watched avengers 😂 only found out about snowpiercer a handful of years ago and heard that a wee while after
And in knives out🥰 I’m not even into superhero movies but this guy has RANGE.
The ending just made me think that there's no way in hell two kids who've lived their lives on a damn train are going to survive. Nope. They'll get eaten by polar bears.
Dude... the fact that you can't even see how it is supposed to deliver a message, and not a freaking documentary, it just shows that you are too narrow minded to understand the movie in every single aspect.
@@casperryborg4869 lmao
I would have thought that too, but the girls dad was literally whispering survival and information about the outside world her whole life. I also think he chose to make the girl the older child because girls usually develop faster cognitively and by the time they are in their 30-20 (they’re ten years apart) they could definitely procreate, probably by then the earth will have melted significantly. I also think that since all they have ever known is survival, they must have some good skills for it. I can’t imagine she won’t go through kronole withdrawals though...
@@casperryborg4869 you know thats bs. those kids died. the adults might have a chance. but not the kids. in that weather.
I think that is the point of it. These kids will have a choice. They may live or die, but it will be on their own terms.
It was changed to cockroaches but actually in the book it's human poop from the frontliners in the train.
I would eat a bug bar over another person any day!
@@immortalfool7627 Yeah but they did not have it when they first got on board, so!
well bug taste pretty food really if fried
what?! wow!
@GodSon Bugs are eaten all over the world. In different cultures they're normal to be eaten, I mean at least they camaflouged the them to made into bars. They're good for you too but honestly I'd be scared to eat one.
I like the polar bear and its symbolism. They are apex predators, at the top of a food chain, which includes fish and marine mammals. So the ecosystems have revived enough to support large mammals, which means food sources for humans. The survivors are still confronting an apex predator, like the humans on the train. And they are at the lower end of the food chain, once again.
Wtf am i the only one that realized these animals never died so the cold was never real? Unless evolution took place from single cell organisms back to polar bears in 17 years
They're also by far the most aggressive and dangerous bear, and them being spotted by it could imply they're not long for this world.
But that doesn't actually follow, because polar bears don't grow from spores, they come from other polar bears. Thus, their presence indicates only that polar bears were always able to survive outside.
The world might indeed be fit for human habitation (it doesn't seem like it, but maybe), but the presence of polar bears doesn't indicate that.
@@sarbe6625
It's not just an implication..They have no survival skills and probably don't even understand what polar bear can do to them.
This movie was so underrated.. After watching a few times .. Its one of the best indie films
yeah absolutely incredible movie, can't wait for the tv show
Marco91 agree with you here.
Heavy Spoilers me neither the tv show looks like it’s going to be good.
I agree! It was surprisingly fantastic!
Was it indie?!
Just got done with the movie.....my only regret is finding out such gem was out and I was living under the rock.
Yeah I don’t think I watched it until 2016 and was annoyed at myself for not seeing it. For some reason I thought it was some Percy jackson type of thing
same, idk how but this movie flew way under the radar
@@Seeattle cause the movie was stupid.
@@MrGamecatCanaveral stupid
Well I just watched it last night so don’t feel bad 😩
Dude, this movie was intense. Chris Evans's knows what people taste like. And man, this continuation of the willy Wonka and chocolate factory story line is the best ever!
WHUUUUUUTTTTTT are they connected???? Omg I didn’t even know and I did some research on it beforehand. I definitely need to go see that now
@@heavyspoilers it's a pretty compelling fan Theory, here's the video
ruclips.net/video/jEX52h1TvuA/видео.html
Amazing
@@heavyspoilers right?!
@@metalface_villain it's called graphic novel
I guess this movie was before it's time. Because Joker had some strong messages and made a Billion dollars.
Very True!!!!!!
Joker made a billion because it's Batman universe after all, everyone was already hyped. Was that movie called "The clown" with no connection at all with DC, it would've made a lot less.
Guto Mesquita Exactly, and im not criticizing joker as i love it, but anyone familiar enough with cinema, knows Jokers plot and setting wasn’t unique and undone before. The main selling point was the fact it was *the* Joker, there’s alot of better class struggle movies than joker, one which, was released the same year, and is by the same director of snowpiercer, Parasite. I still think Joker is an incredible take on Jokers character, probably top 3 comic related movie for me. I Just dislike people who think Joker is the first and only movie of its type, as the original comment is implying.
This movie is way better than Joker imo
@Jack K Pollitical revelant has nothing to do with the entertainment value of the movies,the only decent thing about joker is joaquin acting,the script aint even anything close to TDK has given us
I love how brutal and raw the characters were in Snowpiecer. There weren't any moments where there was an annoying character trying to spare a captured enemy which does happen a lot in more family-friendly films and that is what I love about Snowpiercer.
Its one of those rare movies that after the first time you see it, its stuck in your head having you think about it for a long time afterwards! I hope the tv show does it justice!
Chris Evens portrayed Curtis really well, and i cant see anyone else playing Curtis
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This is not an explanation, this is a summary.
And an interpretation.
yeah seriously like wtf
Most of "Explained" videos are 99% summary and 1 or 2 lines at the end that vaguely states some of the obvious inferences from reading or listening to that summary.
@@johnlime1469 yep
He explained what you see in the movie
the theory about Snowpiecer being a follow up to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory was very interesting too
I need to check that out
@@heavyspoilers that 1 made my head spin lol
there are a couple of them but this is the 1 I found most interesting ruclips.net/video/jEX52h1TvuA/видео.html
It's craaaaaaaaaazy!
I came here to mention this. It can definitely work as a sequel to Charlie and the chocolate factory .
The look on his face when he realizes the protein bars are ground up roaches was priceless
In the comic, if I remember correctly, it was made from the shit from the front of the train people. Not sure which is worse!
@@jamiestewart48 The human waste served as food is obviously the worst one. Apart from its grossness, it has no nutritional value and full of harmful bacteria. But insects, on the other hand, are considered one of the highly nutritious foods. They're rich in protein, fibre, healthy fat, essential micronutrients, and low amount of carbohydrates. They are already eaten as food in many cultures.
@@தமிழோன் eat your bugs and live in your pod
But also, over dramatic? It's just bugs.
You will shock out when you discover how the sausages are made
Polar bear at ending= symbol that life is returning to the planet
Polar bear in real life= death
I couldn't have said it better myself. I tried!
The only problem is that the polar bear spotted them, and polar bears see humans as a food source so they will inevitably be eaten by the polar bear.
In essence they are as fucked as those on the train
It’s a movie...
@@meather100 this movie is one of the best written
@@gay4283 i completely agree, that’s why I dont think the polar bear would kill them since that wasnt the writer’s intention
Polar bear is a sign of life and a new start, and a food source. People can learn to hunt
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Snowpiercer is a sequel to Willy Wonka...
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Definition and team, great choice for today's environment.
I enjoyed the Dan Harmon version better from the Rick and Marty episode a couple of weeks ago. I seriously doubt if this film fits “the Hero’s Journey” interpretation of Joseph Campbell, but Harmon says more in a half hour than this film could in two hours. But I like your channel, HS... 👍🏼
wrong... it not godhood story.. you don't know original is base on french so the train is france.. the wilford is the king of france and the whole thing just old france royalty system..... the end is bullshit since concept of adam and eve don't work with mordern human... we can not survive on inbreed and few set of dna... we human need so many big set of dna to keep us going....
The ending is so STUPID. The 'hero' killed everyone. It is nothing but snow outside. No fields, no farm land, no NOTHING. Any survivor is dead with a week.
"Repopulating" the human population thing itself is worse than hell, although reaching that part is almost impossible.
I would say even the ending of The Mist movie is more "hopeful" and "postive" than this ending.
(I know I'm late)
This movie has many messages which are strong in your face. I am shocked that it is Underrated.
Aside from parasite, all of bong joon ho’s movies are criminally underrated.
It is Underated on the west I guess...
Not on SE Asia
@@Lainemom71 ?
@@kingarzal1502 sleep replying. lol
Bong Joon Ho's coming out film. I hope the positive reception fans have for parasite will want to make them watch this and his earlier films.
Me too, definitely deserves a bigger following
One of the best Bong Jon Hoo movies imo, alongside "The Host", "Memories of Murder", & of course "Parasite." I see that you prepared yourself for the upcoming Netflix TV series. Although I kinda a bit worried with it.
I have a good feeling about it, getting good reviews so here’s hoping it’s good because I’m locked in for ten weeks doing videos on it otherwise 😂
Holyshit the first episode was amazing
No mention of the masterpiece known as Mother?! Okja also deserves a shoutout.
I Love how people analyze this film, and they forgot to cite the original source... Snowpiercer is based on Le Transperceneige a french graphic novel published around 1982.
The end of the movie is the beginning of the second book collection "The Explorers", in the whole book the crew is send to find a radio signal, possibly from another human settlement.
Sadly at the end of "The Explorers" you find that there was a second parallel train, and that the signal was just an automatic audio beacon.
There is a third book, "The Crossing" that I haven't the chance to read, and on top of that there is a fourth volume called "Terminus" that concludes the series.
Also if you think really in the sociological meaning of the back and front of the train cars, depending of were the beholder is standing the back car of the train could be the extreme left, and the engine the extreme right.. But if the beholder is on the other side it will see the opposite the back of the car is the right and the engine the left.
Which makes any political system atrocious is not even the philosophical foundations is the real human application, the perspective of those in power.
But until now, I am still seeing a lot of lies, deception and death on those who govern with doctrines from the left side of the political spectrum.
Unfortunately this movie was considered just a dystopian scifi action flick... But people couldn't see the amount of layers and reading on this film.
well said, sir
As much as I enjoyed the beginning of the movie, I just couldn’t force myself to love the rest of it. Humanity was doomed the moment the final gate was opened. Those kids at the end are definitely not going to survive and everyone else just fucking died apparently.
Well you have to be able to suspend disbelief in the first place as there is no way a train could be self sustaining like that. Very entertaining though. How would you have ended it?
The whole point of the movie is to show that in order for class structures to change, the entire system has to be destroyed
@@jillstephenson sooo Communism ? 🤔
@@jillstephenson the entire system? More like the entire world and human race.
You know how the girl was holding the kid while they stared at the polar bear and it stared back? It looks like a role reversal, where, instead of a polar bear representing the threat of extinction as global warming destroys their habitat, it's the humans who have doomed themselves. Now, the Polar Bear was the one that was gonna survive.
I love this movie. Parasite and Memories of Murder are Bong Joon-ho’s best work, but, personal, Snowpiercer is my favorite Bong Joon-ho film. I think this is Chris Evans’ best performance too.
What I thought didn't make sense was when Wilfred told Curtis he was the first human being to walk through the entire train. But how was that true when Claude (or anybody who works for the front end of the train I guess) went to the tail to grab the kids to work in the engine at the front? 🤔
It is a metaphor. It basically means Curtis went from a common to a Leader.
And Tonya & Andrew's sons' that Claude took
EXACTLY that's clearly a lie Wilford told Curtis
I think he means in terms of status
My impression is that Wilford was lying about working together with Gilliam to manipulate Curtis. Curtis knows that Gilliam holds children’s lives as sacred (sacrificed his arm for one), and therefor once Curtis sees how Wilford uses the children, he knows that Gilliam and Wilford do not share values and couldn’t be working together. This is the exact moment where he turns on Wilford. Any opinions on this?
I agree, also in the film Gilliam says to Curtis when u see Wilford don’t let him talk and to cut out his tongue. I think this is because he knows Wilford will manipulate Curtis.
@@joshuasimons869 That's what I was thinking too but there was details in their conversations that Wilford knew and we saw that there is in fact a phone hidden in the rear of the train. My guess is that Gilliam was a double agent which is why he ended up getting killed
Let me get this straight. There were only two survivors in the train After the train wreckage . An Asian lady and a young African American boy and they populated the planet???
This was a very underrated movie.
She's korean.
환골탈태 which is a part of East Asia...
@@HyukiBlack korean is Asian dummy
According Wiki, her character is Inuit
No he means that she is korean
I know this movie had some huuuge plot holes but I loved this movie.
Think that’s the point of the movie.
Can someone please tell me what was the kids doing by shoving their right arm in the machine. Underneath & the front engine capsule. It never explained what they were doing or how they forced to help operate the train.
Is it just putting their little right arm in & out of a engine compartment to make a train on going??
Too many plot holes for me. I thought this movie sucked.
@@MrGamecatCanaveral Yeah kind of shit ending
@@MrGamecatCanaveral D
Definitely in 2 minds about it. Some things worked, some things were meh.
I'm really not interested in the tv series. I feel like the movie was great and the show is just gonna be a repeat and not as good .
From what I’ve seen it looks pretty good, think the reviews so far have been pretty positive (I’m hoping it’s good anyway because I’m covering it for the next ten weeks 😂😂😂)
So far the show seems like a more tame version, and a little more focused on class structure than on all of society as a whole trapped in a metal tube. Like hunger games? lol. Still I'm curious to see where it goes
First episode starts off with new stuff and plots that was not in the movie. It definitely doesn't feel like a rewatch and already the things the movie did do have had different outcomes.... and its just episode 1
The tv show takes place before the movie ( 7 years after the train departed ) and the first episode was quite good will be interesting to see where they go with it.
Curtis acting absolutely disgusted at the roaches but he's already eaten literally human babies make it make sense
Simply dude. Babies taste better.
Just like in "Parasite", Bong Joon-ho is brilliant in showing the ruthlessness of capitalism and how we all feel stuck in it, as though there is no other way for society to be.
There really isn't though either there is some have nots or we all become have nots.
Socialism will never work tho
You missed the message at the end, that through the avelanch, it was the Earth that got revenge by killing the last remaining vestages of humankind, except for what's required for it to start over.
2 people cannot repopulate the earth especially when its covered in ice and there are freaking polar bears wandering around. That kid would be a snack on day 1.
The decision to derail the train was absolutely the worst possible decision, genocide of humanity's last chance at survival.
This movie is so underrated. Kept me on my toes the entire time, and that ending…10/10. Loved the symbolism, metaphors, down to the cinematography.
What I got from it was the last humans were eaten by a polar bear.
This teaches us that no matter how hard you work, you are not guaranteed success.
Bro she was literally carrying an ar-15 in the movie she can just shoot it human will always survive
The polar bear meant to suggest that there was still life out there, and hence there was still hope that they, too, could somehow survive. Of course, I guess you could also perceive the polar bear as a peek into their future struggles in the food chain.
Wow, just the other day I had compared this movie to whats been happening in america lately. Excellent review. I didn't know a show was coming out from this movie!
I always looked at the polar bear in the end to signify the future. Remember, those two kids never been outside. They probably don't even know how dangerous bears are. They also had been eating those bars their entire lives so they do not know what food looks like. The two dont even speak the same language. On that same note however, a polar bear had been able to survive. If the polar bear found food, then this will signify that the kids can as well. The bear's existence told the viewers of the future struggles the children will face.
BRUV, easily one of your best. You’ve done such a solid job of explaining some of the themes that I could grasp in the movie but couldn’t put into words.
You’re helping to make the quarantine just a little better with every video.
Thank you man that means a lot. Appreciate the kind words. Have a good weekend. Cheers 🍻
Class struggle is one of the most romanticised ideas. Karl Marx to Bong Joon Ho the persistence of idea shows the seriousness of the issue and more movies should be made on it.
Another thing in the film that's relevant today: a lot of the "essential workers" I encountered who worked in grocery stores were teenagers, much like the kids in the film are powering the engine. There's this whole rhetoric that teens aren't entitled to living wages because they live with their parents, and if McDonald's paid living wages to their supposedly mostly teen work force (truth is, a lot of adults work in fast food places as well, it's not all high schoolers), the whole enterprise would go under. I think that if these people are essential to running your business, and they are because they're the ones actually "assembling" and distributing the products to consumers, then they should be paid like essential workers and not disposable cogs in a machine.
The end was not some Adam/Eve metaphor. Those kids were killed and eaten by the polar bear.
I JUST finished the movie a few minutes ago. Found out it was a movie because I started watching the tv show but the movie is sooooo much better and so underrated
The most ridiculous part of the movie is when they escape the train only to be seen by a polar bear. They eat everything and there is no way that bear wouldn't have eaten them immediately.
Literally just watched Snowpiercer right before watching this. Can’t agree with you more on how this feels more applicable now than ever
I showed this at our buildings Fri movie night and most of us thought it was pretty good but depressing. Your vid gave me a whole other level of appreciation for it now.
How could they have possibly restarted the human race 😭
Plot twist: the polar bear is starving sees the last surviovors and absloutely devours them Humanity goes exctent
the guy who makes Chris Evans look like Chris Evans loooool
Hahha cheers mate
I swear, the ending should've been better. That was a pretty dumb ending to a good build up movie.
I thought the perfect ending should have people walking out of the train realizing that it is safe to go outside now. But instead they only let just two people walking out, a young girl and a 5 year old boy, lol.
They pretty much end the human civilization with that scene. It would been better if they just stayed on the train.
The Korean man was right, the ice was melting and it is safe to go outside now. But him blowing up the train door end up killing everyone on the train except just two people lol. That was a pretty stupid writing.
Curtis went all the way in the front just for nothing. I love this movie but the ending was pretty disappointing.
Exactly how are 2 young people who never learned to survive on the outside no hunting skills whatsoever are gonna make it outside for 3 days?
@@evaroovers4871 let alone repopulate and create a civilization
@@Dezzyyx but why would the writer have to make the ending so that human civilization will continue? The other option is also possible right. Humanity can end too.
I mean I feel like everyone acts like they are dead. This guy who died like 2 Times in the Sauna still stands up fighting against Namgoon in the Engine Room. The ending wad very dissappointing though not gonna lie
They probably see the polar bear and eat him, dying from eating the liver.
I watched the movie for the THIRD time yesterday and it never fails to amaze me! One of my favorite scenes was when they first got out of their compartment because it had me feeling so tense and waiting in anticipation!! Bong Joon Ho is a genius!
I think the ending would’ve been more interesting if Curtis became the conductor. It would’ve given us a lot more to think about and is a lot more realistic. Those kids definitely got eaten by polar bears.
Ok i love this movie to death, more than most movies. But theyre the only 2 survivors?? Surely 2 people couldnt repopulate an entire planet? I shudder when I think about what itd do to the gene pool
Uou forgot to mention that the revolution was not meant to kill ONLY those from the back of the train but from all the classes. It is clearly stated, that some of everyone are suppose to die to keep the ecosystem stable. It was all a plan, not just a side effect.
He did mention that
News flash. The polar bear ate the two kids. And that was the end of humanity. Yay. 😆
It was a good film and the underlying narrative was brilliant. I didn't like the end. Two people cannot repopulate and besides that what would they eat? how would they cook? how would they make fire? how would they grow plants? unfortunately the likelihood is they both died from the cold or starvation.
At the end they're looking at a polar bear, that's healthy and alive, and polar bears need like 14,000 calories a day to survive so it shows that there is life and some sort of food source out there and the older girl has like clairvoyant abilities so will be helpful, and maybe there is a possibility other humans are out there
@@addisonb.1356 nah the polar bear would just eat them and thats it
I disagree. Starved polar bear sees two young children means the human race went extinct after the train derailed. And the bear ate well.
The ending is supposed to give hope for mankind... but theres just 2 children who dont speak the same language, halfway down a bear ridden mountainside
The director mentioned in an interview that other people survived the crash so it's not just them. Also he's a child, she could probably teach him her language anyway
The polar bear at the end looks up to her next fresh meal and the possibility of a whole refrigerator full of food so she can repopulate the earth taking over as the dominant species.
underrated comment
This movie was the hardest to watch for me. Its definitely a good movie but the feelings it gave me are undescribable.
You sir have taken the channel to another level with this one, though what you said is no way not unknown and felt by people who would have seen this movie and felt the societal divide, but how you put it across and tied it together..really felt good about seeing such a good video and felt bad about what we are part of... It's a fight we fight to break the wrong pillars on which society is made!!!
Thank you! Glad you liked the video and interpretation. Have a great weekend
I watched “society of the snow” for the first time and then right after watched this. And if the first movie listed taught me anything it’s that humans cannot survive long times in those harsh mountain conditions. So those two kids 100% died and with them the last of humanity. The main character and that Asian side character who wanted to blow up the door made humanity extinct . If they were going to abort the train they couldn’t have picked a worse place to do so the mountains are will guarantee certain death and when you add polar bears to the picture yea they didn’t last two days. Hell I’d even say they didn’t last 18hrs.
I am so blessed to have watched this at the cinema in South Korea at some random city trying kill some time.
So, in the end, most of the vast majority of the people die on the train (so most of what remains of humans (so far as we know)) and despite it seems like it's getting warmer, but still not very livable (because of the snow and what not) they blow up the only livable environment and most of the people. So basically ending humanity. Great plot, ending with suicide. I guess everyone on the train was technically insane.
So they blew up the train killed everyone so a 8 yr old boy and a 15 yr old girl could see a bear that would probably eat them if it didn't they froze to death by night fall good movie but the ending sucked
When you were describing Wilford, I think the word you meant to use is "beneficent" (which means "good", essentially), which is the opposite of the word you actually used, "malevolent" (which means "evil").
Or benevolent? But he ends up being kinda evil anyway...
@@rashadjones I'm editing my comment to change the word, cuz that's what I meant to type. Thanks!
Also, you're right, Wilfod was evil; I was just referring to what HS meant to say in that moment, when he was talking about the way Wilford was portrayed and thought about by the people in the front of the train.
I’m sure that Mason actually refers to him as Malevolent at one point with a slip of the tongue
repopulate? There is no food. They die. As an Alaskan, if they saw a polar bear, they would be bear food.
There’s food and shelter on the train, the wreck could probably provide them with things for a while
R.I.P John Hurt As Gilliam he so cool
i still wanna know what the steak is made of wilford is eating in the front of the train. there was no part with animals except fish and the cockroaches, if i remember correctly.
is he eating human flesh?
They said chickens were extinct but had eggs so I’m not sure. Might even be human who knows 🤷♂️
@@heavyspoilers never thought of that. would be interesting to know. the eggs must have come from the front of the train when they hid the weapons underneath them.
In the graphic novel they have this artificial meat... they didn't go into that in the movie (which is very different) but your comment made me think.... 🤷♀️
I think in the movie they walked through a section of the train which was filled with dead and skinned chickens and maybe cows or pigs?
Am I overthinking this or is the part where they freeze the guy’s arm and break it a plot hole? The whole point of the third act is that they’re being lied to and could survive outside the train but his arm was literal ice in 7 minutes.
You might be right but the speed of thee testing could have made it freeze faster and they could have moved closer to the equator or something. Good point though!
The Platform on Netflix has been compared to this movie. I really enjoyed Snowpiercer.
Thanks for the interesting analysis. There is another youtube video that interprets Snowpiercer as a retelling of Gnostic Christian theology. Too complicated to go into detail here, the idea is that the train represents the physical universe, which is our prison. An evil creator, referred to as the Demiurge, and played by Wilfred, keeps us trapped here. He has servants, called archons, that are the prison guards, the soldiers in Snowpiercer. A gnostic Christian is supposed to move to higher levels of understanding (toward the front of the train), overcome the demiurge, and escape to Heaven and join the real God. Only a few people can make it, which is shown by most of the rebels being killed along the way to the front. The kids that survive represent the idea that only the innocent can go to Heaven. Gnosticism was exterminated by orthodox Christians in the first few centuries after Christ, by killing gnostics and burning their books. A copy of some of their writings was discovered in 1945, in Egypt. It's called the Nag Hammadi Library. It contains the Gospel of Thomas, which reads more like Zen Buddhism, than Christianity. Just one of many ways to interpret this fantastic movie.
You forgot to mention the conductor being an old Charlie from Charlie and the Wonka factory (jk)
Your interpretation of the ending is wrong... the sight of the polar bear means that there IS no future. They will both be killed and eaten by wild life. They’ve lived on a train all their lives and most likely has no hunting skills.
Thats just not the point of the film, life always finds a way
@@ontos8914 correct! Life does, just not human life. The bear scene shows that there is no future for human kind. Just life without us.
@@ripdoggie considering the director literally said they live and repopulate the planet
@@ontos8914 who cares what he says. Lol. Those two are dead! He could say they get on a ufo and leave earth. We need to see it. Because common sense would say a polar bear will kill those two vs those two repopulating the world.
Why couldn't they have just consulted a thermometer to find out that its getting warmer?
So since there’s a polar bear, that means they never entirely died off and went extinct, animals just had very small numbers
Westworld shares a lot of the same themes, especially with season 3; the main one being hegemony.
This movie had been in my pendrive for 2 years.
Can't believe I almost missed this masterpiece.
So I guess I need to finally watch the movie since the show is about the drop 😬
Yeah definitely watch it, really good movie
3.5 out of 5
Let be honest great movie but they crashed the whole train and killed everyone except a Asian girl and black boy who are a decade in age apart and nothing to eat and see a polar bear in distance that most likely ate them genocide at its best lol
The way I saw this film was that rebellion only either ends in defeat or leaves the world in ruin and all that remains is uncertainty and likely further death
This was one of the best post-apocalyptic films of all time! It shows most likely just what really would happen if such an event occred!
Glad you explained it to me I was so confused about the end of movie more confused just watching it again
we are always going to need a system.
Gotta Say The Ending,
Could We Have planned The Revolt Around The Train Being Stopped Instead Of Derailed,?
Where Ever The Warmest Part Of The World Was/Is.
Stoping The Train Would Have Saved Vital Resources And People To Start A New World,
Seriously How Did Anyone Survive That Wreck In Freezing Temps...
9:35 and the frostpunk begins
7:53
Wilfred almost Darth Sidioused Curtis (Anakin)
the way i see it, the canibal situation shows that tail section people will still resort to taking advantage of weaker people to survive, just like how the front section people takes advantage of the tail section people. This shows that all of humanity is the same, just placed in different positions and thus have different levels of power to abuse. tail section people can blame the front section people for their situation. the front section people can only blame the ice age, which is an inescapable situation. so even if curtis accepts position of leading the entire train, will end up doing atrocities to keep the train alive.
It's cool how in the end there's only asian and black race. Nice ending!
Humans survived the Ice Age. The fact that there's a polar bear means it has a source of food. Humans will just go back hunting.
THANK YOU. For explicitly stating what the movie is really about.
No way. There's no fucking way that this was released 7 years ago instead of like 3.
I'm going to become elderly before I even notice it.
Movie is basically an adult themed Willy Wonka
After so many centuries and so much history you would think eventually we would get it…
Well considering you need like 500 people to efficiently repopulate the earth I think its safe to say everyone on Earth died
I just finished the movie and oh my gosh. It's so much to talk about. Like you could have a discussion that goes on for hours about that movie!
I love the fan theory that said this is a sequel to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
But Gillium told Curtis not to let Wilford talk, to just cut out his tongue. Maybe he didn't want him to know the truth or maybe he had turned against Wilford after all.
I think we're missing something with Claude. She's always wearing yellow and has a tape measure, even when it's not necessary.
What was the deal with the Minister doing the hand motion that the 5 years olds have to do to keep the train running? Did she used to do it? That seemed weird.
Love this movie, what an underrated gem
Yeah absolute classic, thanks for the comment
wait a minute.. why was Curtis so horrified about insects being ground up for protein blocks when the dude was eating babies previously?