Snowpiercer Review

As a writer that has played around with screenplays or pilot scripts and has a love for cinema, there are times when I sometimes feel like I should just focus my efforts on writing a really good script, try to sell it and try to set myself up for a more lucrative way of creating. Sidestepping all the plot holes in that plan, seeing a movie like Snowpiercer often stops me dead in my tracks and makes me say, ‘yeah, probably not as ready as I thought I was.’ Snowpiercer, based upon the critically acclaimed graphic novel of the same name by French author Jacques Lob, is basically a master’s class on how to make an emotionally rich and stylish dystopian thriller: one that asks a lot of questions from its onset and successfully answers them by the end of the film without any revelations feeling cheap or easy. In fact, everything in this film is earned, somehow keeping the action heavy and moving, the mysteries swirling and the story-telling fairly tight and consistent. While the dystopian setting is as popular as zombies right now for TV and movies, this particular set up is unique. The film begins in 2014 with a world wide attempt to quell the perils of global warming by releasing a cooling agent into the atmosphere. The results are disastrous and culminates with the world being frozen over, killing almost all of humanity and every other living species (can’t wait till conservatives get a hold of this). The last remnants of human life are aboard a huge train whose tracks travel ar…