Yes, the ending is a bit odd in the sense we are clearly meant to go, "Ah! Two innocents, one male, one female. How evocative of Eden!," but another part of the mind cannot help but go, "They are going to be dead in an hour."

Exactly.

I disagree. They all die. I am sure some would prefer to make their own decision, whether to die or to ontnue the class struggle, as opposed to bearded Captain America making it for them.

My colleague was wondering whether he ended up in a Coke commercial by the end.

Incest FTW?

A-.

I'm 99% positive their intention wasn't to crash the train. They clearly just wanted to blow that door open and escape. Just bad timing.

Ugh, I still DETEST this movie.

Also, what was in the protein bars? I couldn't really make out what was in the processor thing?

Was it insects?

Yeah

Was I the only one thinking that Ed Harris was EATING the kids he had brought to him? I mean, he was cooking steaks, Evans had mentioned earlier that "babies tasted best".

I thought for SURE he was eating those kids.

I enjoyed it very, very thoroughly. It's tautly-paced, the action is remarkably well-executed, there are some surprisingly deep character moments, the handful of nutty performances somehow paradoxically manage to add levity while also staying true to the film's dark and cynical spirit, and even though the ending doesn't completely add up, it's a minor misstep in an otherwise fantastic action film.

A-

Furthermore:

- This has to be the best work that Chris Evans has ever done. As if Captain America didn't already make a lot of headway in this regard, he has officially shed the weight of his weak early performances in my mind.
- Tilda Swinton is also great here, but the best fearlessly crazy performance is Alison Pill's cameo.

I can't believe it took me so long to see this, I only decided to watch it last night because of all the Parasite buzz going around. It is right up my alley and I fucking loved it. Very much inspired by Sunshine, another criminally underseen sci-fi masterpiece. Snowpiercer fills it very lived-in world with high tension from beginning to end, and misleads the viewer in just the right way along the journey. We think that guns are out of the picture until they aren't. We think we know about the horrible fate of the kidnapped children who seem to be getting brainwashed until its revealed to be even worse than we could have imagined. While its a revolution of the underclass movie on the surface, Snowpiercer is constantly wondering if humanity is even worth saving. Even our beloved underdogs admit to turning to savagery when its convenient. Director Joon-ho Bong answers that question with a resounding No. And as I'm sitting there at 3 in the morning, partially drunk, realizing that when it comes to the whole of Humanity I am probably closer to the hedonistic asshole who live in the front than our scrappy heroes in the back, I have to wonder too. Can we share enough of what we have to make everyone equally happy or will that just make everyone equally miserable. And if this is the best we can do then maybe crashing the train isn't such a bad thing.

The one I would've liked to see different about the ending - show another person instead of a bear. Really didn't need the Adam and Eve analogy. Though maybe he is suggesting that now that everyone else is dead, Earth is finally the paradise it was "meant" to be?