Before the end of the film, I imagined or guessed three different endings for the film. Although none of them were given by the author at the end, the process was quite interesting and it felt like it improved the viewing experience.
The first one, when one of the three soldiers was wounded in prison, I imagine that the author's final ending is that the three were pardoned by the colonel's efforts at the last moment, but the wounded died without escape; the third Second, when the three were escorted out of prison, I was thinking that the outcome might be that what awaited them was not the execution ground, but the commendation ceremony in front of various media. The high-level executives learned that someone inside was being held by the outside world, so they commended the original death row prisoner as a model combat hero, so as to create a good and high-spirited atmosphere in the outside world, and divert attention from their own decision-making failure; When faced with the temptation to be promoted, the only "positive" main character in the entire film, who is full of pity and shouts for justice from beginning to end, chooses to give up his position and embrace his interests. Such a result may bring everyone back into thinking about the defiance-replacement-assimilation question that is tormented at the end of Snowpiercer. When the soft chants at the end of the film shrouded the crowd with various expressions, it seemed as if humans were lined up in a group and were slapped one by one. How could you not love Kubrick? !
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