Bong Joon-ho’s
“Snowpiercer” is a gonzo action-thriller that marries “Runaway Train” to “1984,”
with Captain America himself Chris Evans as a last-car rebel inside a train
that holds the last of humanity, circling a world sunk into permanent freeze after
scientists pulled a major FUBAR trying to undo climate change. The train is
wealth-segregated, “Great Gatsby” upfront, stragglers in back. When two
back-car children are taken at gunpoint, Evans fights his way to the engine. To
God. Bong’s film is a train onto itself, gleefully barreling off the tracks,
belching smoke, ash, and noise, slashing through drama/action/satire
and horror, no scene more bizarre or tense than a bright yellow elementary
classroom. This film is bloody fun, if not too daft for anyone’s good, but note
that everyone in the forward cars is white and police brutality is common,
and our rulers know that war is necessary to thin the populace. Post-Ferguson,
this movie is scarily now. As the
train’s governess, Tilda Swinton riffs and looks like – no shit -- Thelma from
Scooby Doo, possessed by a demon, high on meth. In fur. The end is perfectly WTF indescribable. A-
Saturday, August 30, 2014
Snowpiercer (2014)
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