Snowpiercer: The Worst Closing Image of a Movie Ever?
By Péter MARTON ** Join the European Science Fiction group on Facebook for related discussions. ** Snowpiercer is a 2013 movie directed by Bong Joon Ho of South Korea. It is relevant for EUtopias and Other Futures because it is often referred to as SF due to its premise, and because it also has key European connections and elements. The premise is that humanity had reached a point where climate engineering had to be tried, which then badly backfired. "Backfroze" may be a better word as a new ice age was brought about. There are survivors to be found on a very long train that is powered by a perpetum mobile (perpetual motion) engine and is going eternally in circles, clearing the track ahead of snow, extracting water in the process, and so on. It functions as a near-closed ecological system. Still from the comic (the English-language edition)... European connections include that the film was loosely (as in real loooooosely) based on Le Transpercen...