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) :)
Review by Marc FriedolinVIP 6BlockedParentSpoilers2020-05-18T18:12:36Z
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) :)