Snowpiercer
Snowpiercer is a 2013 post-apocalyptic science fiction action film based on the French climate fiction graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. The film was directed by Bong Joon-ho and written by Bong and Kelly Masterson. A South Korean-Czech co-production, the film marks Bong's English-language debut; almost 85% of the film's dialogue is in English.
Plot
It is 2031, 17 years after an attempt to stop climate change via stratospheric aerosol injection catastrophically backfired and created a new ice age and caused ecocide. The remnants of humanity have taken to a self-sustaining circumnavigational train, the Snowpiercer, run by reclusive transportation magnate Wilford. The passengers on the train are segregated, with the elite in the extravagant front cars and the poor crammed into squalid tail compartments overseen by armed guards.
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| author | Bong Joon-ho Kelly Masterson |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Ural Mountains |
| director | Bong Joon-ho |
| editor | Kim Chang-ju Steve M. Choe |
| events | class discrimination cultural Reproduction post-apocalyptic scenario rebellion Survival |
| genre | action live-action science fiction social |
| keywords | avalanche beg capture circumnavigation clairvoyant closed ecosystem ecocide elite fight follow held hostage ice age kill load machine missing son night vision polar bear slave slavery stab stratospheric aerosol injection |
| musicBy | Marco Beltrami |
| producer | Jeong Tae-sung Lee Tae-hun Park Chan-wook Steven Nam |
| publisher | CJ Entertainment The Weinstein Company |
| recordedAt | Austria Czech Republic Prague |
| theme | climate change dystopian post-apocalyptic science fiction action south korean |