I am seeing Snowpiercer tonight just so I can read all this freaking whitefont.
Don't you have an elsewhere to be?
Cordelia ,'Lessons'
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Polter-Cow - Jul 20, 2014 9:02:37 am PDT #27379 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2014 9:22:01 am PDT #27380 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I thought that was the point of the end, sj.
Frankenbuddha - Jul 20, 2014 9:53:03 am PDT #27381 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
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?
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2014 9:54:53 am PDT #27382 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Just spent some time envisioining Snowpiercer with Sigourney Weaver in Tilda Swinton's role. Bit of a mental fuckery.
sj - Jul 20, 2014 9:55:38 am PDT #27383 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
ita, I think some people took the point as being yay there is life left on Earth!
Jessica - Jul 20, 2014 9:56:10 am PDT #27384 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Gack, my whitefont!! Put it back,put it back!
Jessica - Jul 20, 2014 9:58:45 am PDT #27385 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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.
§ ita § - Jul 20, 2014 10:10:21 am PDT #27386 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Jesse - Jul 20, 2014 10:37:29 am PDT #27387 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
sj - Jul 20, 2014 5:20:49 pm PDT #27388 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
I took it as both.
You're probably right.
Also, what ita said.
Given everything else in the movie
Jesse, me too. Having not read the graphic novel, I'm guessing that the polar bear was in there, because it would make a good panel for a comic book.