The scene with Andrew Layton seeing sunlight and tasting cooked food for the first time in 7 years illustrates why i think Snowpiercer's going to work. Seems on-track to illustrate some of the more sociological aspects than Bong Joon Ho's more action-oriented affair.
Excellent performances from Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly, thus far. Snowpiercer pulls you into an interesting world, that is a deadly effective, razor sharp satire of so many of today's social ills.
Excited to see where they go from here!
I wrote a more in-depth review, that is still spoiler-free, on my Mastering Modernity blog: https://masteringmodernity.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/snowpiercer-episode-1-review-first-the-weather-changed/
I'm kind of intrigued.
Yes, the concept of a train which essentially runs for all eternity and may never stop doesn't make much sense, since a perpetum mobile isn't possible and its obviously not fueled via solar or other renewable energy - but its acceptable as a universal truth of the story.
What I like about the story in general is, that the villains aren't really villains.
Divisions into classes of people with low chances of advancements are found in all societies and all experiements getting rid of them (democracy, socialism) ended up creating new class systems.
So you will always have people having more and other having less.
The system was designed to feed and cloth a certain amount of people. Having to feed additional people disrupts the balance of the system.
I'm kind of wondering how the antagonist (I actually like her better than the protagonist, but she is portraied as bad, so I'll run with it...) actually hired a police rookie, but no one able to investigate crimes.
Criminal behaviour is an anthropological constant, as far as I know there isn't a single society in which no crimes were committed.
Regarding the cast:
Connelly is a great choice!
She is convincing as a rationalist. And the final scene shows beautifully that just because people like us are able to make hard choices and can seem heartless when we make decisions seemingly bad in order to keep a system running, that doesn't mean that we don't have feelings (although very subtle, which makes me like the scene even more).
To sum it up: It was a good start, we will see what they make of it.
I'm expecting more sociological study than action show though (which I would have wished the movie had more of) :)
I really hope it's not CSI:Snowpiercer. The crime solving was the least interesting part of the pilot.
Well, the premise of the whole thing is completely and utterly ridiculous, so you just have to roll with it, I guess. But you are so much occupied with suspending your disbelief that there is not much left after all.
The movie had an original idea and it worked for that runtime but i could never hope to keep my suspension of disbelief for more than one episode in this series. There are just too many things that wouldn't make sense and there are no other reasons that would keep me watching from what i've seen.
Fight of social classes.... blehhh
I liked the movie - here I liked the haircut of Sting's daughter. Hope there will be more to like.
Enjoyed the film and been meaning to pick up the show for a good while. Its a great premise and Jennifer Connelly is crushing it.
Great reveal at the end of who she really is to the train. You can get away with a lot when the figure head is just a symbol. Will be interested to see how they keep it all interesting.
The premise of this show is as stupid as it could possibly be. Seriously, a frigging train?
Anyway, leaving aside that fact, the show could actually work. Post apocaliptic Orient Express. So far, I'm on board. Or aboard...:see_no_evil:
An interesting start. I'm intrigued.
Looks like police brutality exists in the future...even when the world has come to an end. Looks like recent riots hasn’t helped the future.
I already love this show, it looks stunning.
Really enjoyed the opener. Visuals were on point. Looking forward to the rest
Shout by KeldianBlockedParent2020-05-21T22:12:07Z
Started off weak with unnecessary melodrama but picked up at the end of the episode. Jennifer Connelly is on point but dreadlocks dude's line delivery is distractingly poor.