Snowpiercer
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Id like to know Melanie Cavills backstory, stat.
Heres all the info we have on her: Shes top-tier-educated Yale Engineering and MIT.
Judging by the photos taped up inside her closet, we think she once had a daughter.
She worked closely with the real Mr. Wilford.
Melanie is no mere elevated hostess.
Of course,Snowpierceris dripping out dribs and drabs about the smooth-voiced head of hospitality on purpose.
Snowpiercers class system should look pretty familiar.
Its just … the way the world currently works, but condensed, and clickety-clacking down some tracks.
), clad in silk blouses, and isolated from any disturbances.
The first is the potential third-class work stoppage, scheduled for 6 p.m. that evening.
Labor is the only capital that third class really possesses.
Without them, toilets will back up and fancy tummies will go hungry.
As we know, its an all-too-common tactic: apply as much top-down, violent pressure as possible.
It also, of course, usually implodes in the oppressors faces.
Its distilled down to this: Some ectoplasm goo leaks from a box and drips onto wiring.
Only Melanie, apparently, can fix it.
And shes on borrowed time.
so you can make its way out of an approaching valley, Snowpiercer needs to maintain a top speed.
It also needs to slow down so that Melanie has a chance of repairing it.
you’re free to see the paradox here.
(How long was he in there?
Along with Josie and Dr. Pelton, he thinks hes pieced together the roots of a nefarious plan.
Mass incarceration, human experiments, extrajudicial imprisonment or a grab bag of all three, nobody really knows.
They assume that deems them enemies of the state.
But shes careened up and down the moral spectrum for the past six episodes.
Whats to say this is the truth?
That Mr. Wilford is either hiding in a closet or never boarded a train?
That Laytons suspension in a fugue state wasnt retributive and preservative at once?
The central question of where power lies and what motivates it remains opaque.
The near-derailment does offer all of Snowpiercers passengers a moment of terrified unity.
Till and Oz momentarily hold hands.
But there are bubbles of hope that nod up to the surface.
And Layton, well, he gets laid.
This post-apocalypse isnt going so badly for everyone.
