DIGC 330 Blog 2

Snow Piercer (2013)

Snow piercer (2013) is a movie that talk about the avarice also the selfhood of human. They had use a train with class system to make a metaphor of nowadays society. Male lead of the movie had live on the “economy class” at the train, he and his friends has a poorly treated on daily life. Such as they only have the “black cake” for their meal and they later had find that those “black cake” are made of cockroach. Also, their living place were so dirty and they must endure the bullying of the soldier on the train. When there had a “first class” person to take away their kids, they can’t say anything or they can’t do anything for resist.

When I had watch the movie, I find that it seems like nowadays society. The rich people will get the higher life quality and the poor people will get the lower life quality. Also, the number of poor people has keep to increase because those rich people will not share their own resource to them. In our society, seems there has no one want to solve the problem. Occasionally, we will have some demonstration to reflect the problem to the government/ some powerful person. For these demonstration, they were not resist for their poor states. They were resist for some people had abuse their power also they were deprive others right. In the Ellis et al (2011), we had know that the behaviour, value, religion were all based on our common sence. Just like the movie, when we look at the people who look like dirty or their clothes was rotten, we can sure that they were not rich. Then, we can judge that someone dress good, thay were the rich people. In our common sence, we konw that we all have different quality of lifestyle. We can compare the clothes of different people’s wear, the rich people’s clothes was made by high quality material and the clothes of poor people were so cheap. So, we no need to ask people how many money do they have? We can judge them by their out look.

On the movie, male lead and his friends were not care about to live at the last car. But they were care about why their status are so different of the first car people. The movie had tell us it is normal of there have some people being a rich people on this society, as we all have different talent. It is so normal that we have different levels of our property.

At the ending of the movie, the Korean girl and the boy had go out of the train. Initially, they were feel afraid of leaving the train and die because of can’t adapt the cold weather. But when they saw a polar bear, they see the hope of living at outside. So, they bravely to walk to the snowfield. It seems to tell us when we can ignore our own greedy and selfish and go to fight for our freedom and rights, at last, we will find the hope of living. But we must understand that, the process of having these thing will need to sacrifice many things, maybe the time, money ,even our life.

The end of world is a common topic on our society. The dicrector has use a story of we live on a train on the end of world to make a metaphor of the live based on Classism. It is more effectively to remind people what will happend if the classism has show on the end of world. To help us imagine that how’s the problem has bigger as it can effect our life.