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I thought all the CGI was really bad. Every time they looked out the window it looked like a cartoon to me. The only thing I couldn't decide was whether or not that was on purpose.
At the end did anyone else think "Oh, look they survived and now they're going to get eaten by a polar bear." Just me?
I am seeing Snowpiercer tonight just so I can read all this freaking whitefont.
I thought that was the point of the end, sj.
In retrospect,the bit with the room full of axes makes sense, given that it was all a setup, but in the moment all I could think of was this scene from Galaxy Quest
That would be the one where you can see they re-dubbed Sigourney Weaver's original line?
Just spent some time envisioining Snowpiercer with Sigourney Weaver in Tilda Swinton's role. Bit of a mental fuckery.
ita, I think some people took the point as being yay there is life left on Earth!
Gack, my whitefont!! Put it back,put it back!
I took it as both. Because if there's an apex predator, then there's a food chain - polar bear implies seals implies fish implies plants, so it might be possible for humanity to survive. Except not, because they're probably going to be eaten by the polar bear.
I think the ending says a lot of things, but ultimately not much for us--life: 1, humanity: 0. No matter what animal they showed, there's life implied--that's good. But show the apex predator right there you don't have to spend much time going back and seeing if there were enough people left alive to repopulate a restroom stall--human eaters in the hizzouse!
Also, all this time, life has continued, and maybe if wizardry had been applied in trying to set down roots in a changed ecosystem, all that craziness and barbarity would have been pointless. But instead humanity took an opportunity to look as bad as possible.
Given everything else in the movie, I was pretty satisfied when I thought it might be the end (of the movie, and of humanity) when the screen went black after the train crashed.