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Posted by: PrussianMosby, April 3rd, 2014, 9:16pm
Here's a director and especially a screenplay which works different.

I expected this probably will be a disaster. Especially concerning the fact the director said how good his film would mirror the social system we live in and all that. Because that's what they all say today. They tell us how much sense their movies have and finally it's only about machines fighting humans. Then there's a B plot love interest which becomes the A plot in the happy ending, great.

Ok. Here we have the approximately worst premise since years. A train is the last human's habitat and it has to drive.

It works. Out of that ridiculous premise, the movie develops so much honesty in its art.

After one hour, maybe more, there were still parts of introduction. They ignored the typical structure; they ignored all those hammering lines and hysterical storyline which just go forward as soon as possible. And that's what makes this movie refreshing. AND NO CHEESE. No B story, just experience.

There was so much dialogue and side impressions, which could have easily been cut to half to vomit on us with this hectic crab, in which every line has to go forward just for GIVING US BRAINLESS VIOLANCE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. I'm not completely against those movies, but wow, can it be done different.

The movie resists all that with a confident smile on its face. And nevertheless the action is great.  
Screenwriting - no words.

I could breathe and relax, not because it was lowbrow, it wasn't. The movie simply speaks a completely different language as the majority of movies do.

The dictatorship, the autocracy's structure of this movie, we experience on our own, we are free inside and can choose between so many impressions what is necessary to us. Beat sheets- This movie pisses on beat sheets. There's no stupid screenplay and director which pokes and punches us like assholes to their unimportant message, heard about 20000 times, speaking the language of safely making money with garbage.

I won't say too much here about the content. From what I know, there wasn't US release since now.

Also, the art of the art is what should be discussed concerning Snowpiercer, and not the plots, in my eyes.

I just want to say that there's something different going on with this movie. It must've been very hard for them to deliver that through the trailer because of the truly "flat" premise. They had to go for believability in their presentation. So, who really expect this movie to be clever-- and that's where it will probably fail at the box—but there's hope.

As you might see, I had a good evening. I hope these ones are where cinema always comes back to, even if we have to take the jackpot once in a while as I did tonight.

I know I give a lot of praise here, especially the Sci Fi fans may understand why.

The only weak points of Snowpiercer were when the producer had a noticeable fear that they were too far off the systemically today's movie and centered a bit from time to time. I can't blame them for doing so... It's ambitious enough.

Too round it up: The director said the truth. After the movie I thought about what's going on and at what point we're arrived. Not in a romanticized naive way. The art has done something serious there.
Posted by: PrussianMosby, April 3rd, 2014, 9:36pm; Reply: 1
Oh, sorry. It's the wrong category.
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