The absurdity of the premise of Snowpiercer is *part of the point*, like in-universe it's about how Wilford is a lunatic and the society he built makes no sense Thematically it's about the madness of capitalism, all this furious motion to no real purpose that we just accepthttps://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1260677504639131649 …
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Anyway it's not a very subtle metaphor but if you tried to make it more "realistic" you would destroy the whole point of the story It's a mad story meant to reflect the madness in our world
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Right now they're talking about sacrificing human lives just to make the Dow go back up, to make the train go faster, as though that means something as a tradeoff against mass death "RUMBLE RUMBLE RATTLE RATTLE THE ENGINE CAN NEVER DIE"
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And "the story the author wanted to tell" is completely defensible if it results in a solid fucking story.
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