Snowpiercer
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Perhaps youve heard of it.
The Kim family lives in an infested basement apartment with one measly window overlooking a fetid alley.
Without seeing one house, you wouldnt recognize the true extremity of the other.
The two create a sick kind of narrative balance, which Bong is asking you to want to destroy.
(I wont reveal what one character does see of the train in the end.)
The effect is jarring and necessary.
Her surroundings are luminous, like an Orient Express designed by Jony Ive.
Her voice, when it pours out over Snowpiercers PA system, is so velvety its practically disembodied.
The purpose of this first episode is twofold.
Melanie carries a bento box of sushi freshly plucked from a luminous train-car lagoon.
The Tailies bicker over when and how to revolt.
And yes, these are all very big, flashing-light metaphors for our own extremely messed-up class system!
Hes dedicated to the Tails movement to equalize treatment on board.
We dont know much about the murder yet.
Playing hard to get, Layton is trying to weigh out the best route forward.
If he accepts the assignment, Tailies might consider him a traitor.
Its slightly campy, definitely too on the nose, but still satisfying?
The strawberrys place here is commensurate with its calories, she says, without even an ounce of self-awareness.
The first classers can only feel special if they know they have more than anyone else.
Its capitalism, baby!
Except one minor, tiny, teeny detail could upend everything.
You have the train, Mr. Wilford, the conductor says with a little smirk.
The man behind the curtain is really the woman in the uniform.
And shes just barely keeping it all together.
