it is really not about class exploitation in any straightforward way. and absolutely not about class solidarity at all; the family just enthusiastically fucks over all their peers.
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Snowpiercer is about managed resistance, the calculated dissipation of revolutionary energy, it's a fairly standard leftist theme
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Yeah I thought the big criticism of Snowpiercer was that it’s too derivative of eg The Matrix.
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no. the criticism is that the class politics are really confused! you can have a tragedy without some weird conspiracy theory about how rebel leaders are in cahoots with the ruler.
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I think the point was that the whole train system was inherently messed up and beyond saving. Hence the film ends with everything literally going off the rails and two train babies, heading out into the frozen landscape to start anew.
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