Playing Captain America is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that will propel you like few other roles will. But, yes, it will not guarantee anything, and hence the career as a star of Chris Evans is not as powerful as that of other big names when he has not wielded the shield. That in the commercial, but in his favor it can be said that He has not missed the opportunities that the role has given him and has tried to carry out unusual projects.
On paper, leading a sci-fi movie with strength and a powerful message sounds like a safe bet to show that you can attract the staff. But things change when who actually drives the vehicle is one of the most important directors of this century, willing to make a film as devastating as it is extravagant as far as possible. And the final result couldn’t be better, as we can see through Prime Video playing the essential ‘Snowpiercer’.
class struggle on wheels
The director, of course, is Bong Joon-ho, who launched into his first major international production after causing a sensation in South Korea with his movies. She managed to cajole the Weinsteins for an ambitious adaptation of the graphic novel by Jean-Marc Rochette and Jacques Loeb of the same name, and which would ultimately lead to the television version that is being a sensation on Netflix.
But nothing like Bong’s movie, which manages to condense what is important and connect it with his obsessions about the human condition in the strict and dehumanizing limits of capitalism. What better way to present ideas about the class struggle than a huge train with wagons divided into different population levels, which are received according to the social position linked to the geographical position of the train.
A train to which, incidentally, the characters are tied by force. A fatal cataclysm to try to stop global warming causes an extreme freezing of the planet, and the passengers of the Snowbreaker are the only survivors of the planet.
Although this does not make the situation sustainable, and a delegation led by Evans’s character tries to mount a revolution that reaches the locomotive of the train. Only to find a reality even more intricate and terrible than they expected.
‘Snowpiercer’: Aboard Bong’s Train
The allegories are not especially subtle, but they are stimulating because of how well they are spun into a structurally iron thriller, which manages intrigue with a tone without fear of going big. Whether it’s with powerful action sequences or a twisted sense of humor – or all at once – Bong Joon-ho don’t give boredom a chance.
And he doesn’t make too many concessions for international audiences either, making a movie that is purely his own but spoken in a language other than Korean.
During the promotion cycle for ‘Parasite’, Bong reflected that he wanted to tell a purely Korean story, but the way everyone has connected with it made him see that the evils it portrayed were universal. The evils of capitalism. Knowing how to develop that into really entertaining and clever movies is one of the keys. not only of ‘Snowpiercer’, but of his entire career. Enough reasons to be on his train.