[ SECRET POST #2656 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2656 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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05. [SPOILERS for Snowpiercer]



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06. [SPOILERS for Captain America: The Winter Soldier]



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07. [SPOILERS for Teen Wolf]



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08. [SPOILERS for Golden Time]



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09. [WARNING for blood/gore, cannibalism, and incest]



















Notes:

Grabbed some from next week's subs post so it wouldn't be all spoilers today.

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Comments

[fscom]

05. [SPOILERS for Snowpiercer]
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[(Anonymous)]

Man, I loved the shit out of this movie and anyone from my old LJ seeing this secret now would probably think I wrote it... but in fact, I feel people tend to overthink the philosophical overtones. This adds to the criticism this movie's been getting when the themes don't quite add up to what viwers have built up in their heads. Yeah, it's a "Thinking Man's Thriller", but I wish more people would just remember that it's also a damn cool movie with awesome fight scenes and visuals.

[quantumreality]

Hi! :) I'm actually the OP of this secret, and I guess the movie makes sense on quite a few levels. It's just that the movie was sort of 'sold' as the 21st century answer to "Metropolis" from the 1920s or 1930s, which apparently had some things to say about social structure and inequality as well.

But it's so odd, it really is. Aspects of the train make no sense except as a kind of surrealistic portrayal of a society gone utterly hermetic, and all I could keep thinking about by the end was what a depressing illustration it was of a society forever locked into cycles without any real permanent shift in the stunning and appalling inequities extant within it. (which, given its surrealistic reinterpretation of our real-world social stratification, you can sort of see why it's that way, instead of a thrilling hero-tale of finally upending the age-old tendency of society to create the poor and dispossessed either aided by deliberate action or simply through inaction).

But yeah, I get that on another level it's not supposed to really be social commentary, and to that end, 100% agreed on the scenes and visuals! The work put into those really shows!

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[elephantinegrace]

I just want to take a moment to put in a plug for Snowpiercer because it's a really damn good movie. I cried at this movie and I didn't even cry when I watched Cap 2, which even my boyfriend cried at. (No, I'm not making the comparison because Chris Evans is in both. I'm making the comparison because it's the most recent movie I've seen. But yeah, Chris Evans is in it, which should be enough reason for everybody here to go see it.) It's got everything: action, mystery, drama, Go Ah-sung, and have I mentioned Chris Evans? It's got something for everybody.

And if you're like me and end up crying at the end of this movie because you didn't want it to end, you should check out some of Bong Joon-ho's other work. Might I recommend Mother?

Re: More or less off-topic

[quantumreality]

OP here! *wavewave*

About those other movies? I think I may do just that. :)

And yes, Chris Evans really stood out in Snowpiercer. :D (I think the beard alone must have added like 581% more gravitas)

[arcadiaego]

I don't know that text but I thought that was the point? It just struck me as being standard sci-fi plot #32, although parts of it were very well done. Maybe some people were confused by how surreal it was - I think that would have worked better if they'd had a bigger budget and could show more of the train.

Apparently the comic is even more depressing. :/