If I could just have a brief moment of your time, I would like to discuss how it’s possible to have one simple but significant scene that ties a whole movie together. I recently — finally — watched the film Snowpiercer. Coming from the director of the Korean film The Host, I had no doubt that it would be an entertaining film. It was! It is a story about a post-apocalyptic ice age in which the survivors live on a train that endlessly loops on a track, with the areas of the train essentially broken down by class. The film follows a group of people living in squalor in the tail end who have had enough, especially after the kidnapping of some children, and fight their way to the front of the train. Continue reading “The Impact of One Scene in Snowpiercer” →