Snowpiercer (MA15+)
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Chris Evans, Song Kang-Ho
COULD it be the most mental film of the year?
If you’re looking for something a little different to the dystopian teen angst flooding cinema screens at the moment, then this might be the movie for you.
Of all the bizarre futures ever imagined for us and our planet, this one takes the biscuit.
In an attempt to defeat global warming, scientists laced the upper atmosphere with a gas designed to cool the Earth.
And boy did it work … as an ice age consumed every living thing on the planet.
The survivors crowded aboard a luxury supertrain, the Snowpiercer, perpetually circling the globe.
A class system saw the rich at the front, and the poor at the rear.
Enter down and out tail-end passenger Chris Evans, who wants a first-class seat … for everyone.
Cue one of the most bizarre Marxist revolutions ever envisioned – and there will be blood. This one would have avoided an R-rating by the skin of its gleaming fangs.
Evans is opposed by Tilda Swinton, who steals the show as a Thatcher-esque train controller focused on keeping the proletariat down.
This out-there flick has a lot to say about almost everything.
It’s beautifully shot, but be warned … the blood flows like water, and so does the old ultra-violence.
There are more ideas in this film than any five others going around at the moment.
And it’s just nice to see a movie for grown-ups.
– Jason Beck
