Why does a dystopian, apocalyptic movie from 2013 look and sound so much like the bilge coming out of the World Economic Forum ten years later?
We watched Snow Piercer (Czech-Korean, believe it or not) on YouTube yesterday. Wow! Based on a graphic novel–that is, a comic book–it still seemed a good bet. And it was, it was.
Scenario: Somebody’s bright idea of using Science to fight Global Warming backfires, big-time, plunging the earth into a new ice age in which almost everyone has died. All that’s left of humanity has to live on this super train that never stops running. The plebs are in the back of the train: they have to eat protein bars made of bugs. The rich are up front, eating high-class meals prepared by master chefs.
And somehow, with the human race all but extinct, the ruling class still manages to sign up Herod’s Men to enforce the new society by violence and terror. How is it they never run out of Herod’s Men?
“You will own nothing, and you’ll be happy.” Guess which half of that comes true.
Snow Piercer has great effects and marvelous acting: John Hurt inspires the rebels, Ed Harris drives the train, and Tilda Swinton is a Hillary Clinton with a Yorkshire accent. It would have paid off to have cut about half a dozen fight scenes out of the film; but what the heck, you can go to the kitchen for some popcorn.
The only question is: Are John Kerry, Klaus Schwab, and the rest of the WEF crowd of monsters and jidrools actually powerful enough to cause a truly global calamity? They will convince themselves, of course, that any crime they might commit is really A Good Thing that they do for the benefit of all. That’s how deluded they are. They shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near any kind of power.
