Snowpiercer

A train circles the globe, never stopping. It’s miles long and the people in the back, the poorest of its residents, are fed up. They want better food and a better life. It’s time to rebel; fighting their way forward one train car at a time. The metaphor works: rich people in the front, poor people in the back. There’s no skipping cars to the front either, every car must be traversed. So the set-up is interesting. Some of the practical aspects of living on a train are skimmed over, but it’s sci-fi, so a it’s all an allegory anyway. It starts to get weird toward the end, and some important questions go unanswered. But the cast is good, especially Chris Evans as the reluctant hero. And the message, we’ve seen it before, about the rich oppressing the poor, “trickling down” their wealth and food, is always infuriating. At some point this train’s gonna crash.