I think Snowpiercer is a heroic movie, and we see Curtis as a hero who keeps going from being a "number" to eventually being a human life that Wilford will look at . The revolution he initiated was violent and cruel, crushing too many lives and blood to pave the way ahead. Director Feng Junhao gave up his past restrained film processing methods and portrayed Curtis as a hero built up with his life, but in the end, with Wilford's few words, he ended the hero's steadfast revolution heart of.
Although "Snowpiercer" can be said to be a hero's victory, the real winner is Nangong Minxiu's victory. The same dim engine world. Feng Junhao set up the disintegration of the train at the end of the film, creating a bright ending for the audience with the ice and snow world outside the car, the child's anxious exploration, and the appearance of polar bears. But this ending came with a lot of cost and sacrifice, and a big part of it was the failure of Chris Evans' Curtis as a hero.
No matter Nangong Minxiu or Yona, they are just a "hitchhiker" of the revolution. Their real purpose is to escape the train, not to resist the tyranny in the train, and the warrior who is really rushing forward in the movie is Koti s. He realized that the suffering of the lower compartment came from the exploitation of the upper compartment. He believed that Wilford's leadership had caused the distress in the lower compartment, so he led the people who believed in him to stand up to resist. From him, we do see the shadow of traditional heroes. Brave, decisive, tragic past, he once lost his humanity, and later became sober because of Gilliam's behavior, but he only pushed everything to Wilford, thinking that only by entering the upper compartment can he control his own destiny, he did not realize, In a small train in a huge world, no matter who leads it, the direction has already been determined, and he himself is just a pawn controlled by the system.
In fact, Wilford is right, they are human nature, and they are the laws that must be followed in a limited space. As a train conductor, he must control resources to ensure the operation of the entire train, in order to offset his powerful loneliness. Gilliam told Curtis that after seeing Wilford, don't listen to him and cut off his tongue, probably because he expected Curtis, who had experienced the killing, and who had witnessed countless deaths, would eventually be killed by this Influenced by this argument, it shakes the spirit of struggle that he has always held firm. In fact, as Curtis continued to fight, his attributes as a person were constantly decreasing in level, and everything other than the goal would only become nothingness. The death of a friend, the killing of Gilliam, the battle in the car... When Curtis arrived in the first-class car, he completed the process of turning from a number into a hero, and all his beliefs were dissolved in the system during this process. . When Wilford announced that he could be the next successor, the Void as a goal had naturally shaken the new hero.
Namgoong Minsu, on the other sideline, has always known his goals. He remembers the way to survive in the wild, knows how to blow up car doors, and in Snowpiercer, he and Yona are the only ones who pay close attention to everything that happens outside the window. When Curtis looked out the window just to shoot his opponent, Namgoong Minxiu had already predicted the weather change through the snowflakes.
From the fall of a hero to the opening of a new world, there is a distance of a train. Director Bong Joon-ho said that he likes twisted things, he likes the assumption that the hero did not win in the end, but got other things. When Curtis' faith as a hero is shaken, he may also have realized at that moment that the massive carriage will crush each individual, and only escape can be truly liberated. So Curtis handed over the match to Yona, and the tragic hero fulfilled his ultimate mission—finally taking fate into his own hands.
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