After watching Snowpiercer the most significant scene, in my opinion was when Curtis lead them into the aquarium. After having some sushi and learning that it was a rarity, because maintaining the aquarium ecosystem only allowed a small amount of fish to be taken out. I think this was the most important scene because at that point they realized that the train was an giant contained ecosystem. They realized how intricate the train really was.

Snowpiercer October 31st

Question 3:

I think Snowpiercer did a great job of reflecting the society we live in today. We never saw how the people at the front of the train got there, which made me assume they were either born into the situation or it was reserved for people who come from affluent backgrounds. That is the way society is today, life is usually easier for those born into money or status, while those who aren't are forced to live in bad conditions. We also tend to give all the power to the same privileged people, who end up looking out only for those like themselves, and that was also reflected in the film as well.

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Kriscian Figueroa
Dr. Hill
31 October 2016


                In the movie Snow piercer, everything was completely crazy with gun shooting and killing was kind of aggressive but it was to be in the front and I understand the stories because they want to be treated like people and that they took their child away from each other which they doesn't suppose to do that to people that a treated like nobody. I feel that it means that we shouldn't let other people to get t use and try the harder to not let us down as society and be together no matter what situation we are going through.

Snowpiercer Blog assignment for OCT.31

Jeremiah Gamble

October 31, 2016

ENG 200/Hill

Class time Monday question

Question choice 2:

                The most significant statement Snowpiercer is making about society is that inequality eventually promotes civil war. We see it in many examples of American History. All people generally have common sense and recognize when they are being treated differently compared to another group. In “Snowpiercer” people of the trail car recognized there was a difference in treatment between them and the first class attendants. After a while, trail car members demand justice. The only alternatives to create equality and no possibility of civil war are to initially treat everyone the same and eliminate wealth/class categories.

Snowpiercer assignment 2 question 3

Zachary Kurtz
The significant issue I have is with the warming of the outside. Yes it makes sense that over time it would get warmer, that is not the problem though. The problem is how can it be cold enough to freeze someone's arm off but then a couple days later do nothing too people. I'm talking about the shoot out they had from different train cars. When the glass was broken it didn't do anything to them, and they didn't even like care that it was broken. Where it should of had more of an effect on every near the cold. Other than that this is a great film so far and I cant wait to see hoe it ends.

SNOWPIERCER [2013] Scene: Steam-room Stand-Off. Too Violent?

I really think this is the most brutal of all the violent scenes in Snowpiercer.  Even after watching it a few times, it's still pretty brutal.  The question is: is it too brutal?



The camera work accentuates the brutality.  As Mark Lancaster said in an entry earlier, there are a lot of extreme close ups, and in this scene, they are extreme close ups of people in agony.  It makes it VERY difficult to look at.  Extreme close-ups create an intense sense of intimacy, and to have that attached to someone getting stabbed is pretty horrifying.



I can see how some would really take issue with this level of explicit violence.  But then I think: perhaps that is the point of it.  On one level, Snowpiercer is very much about how brutal human beings can get when faced with survival.  In a situation like this, where one is afraid of death from so many angles, the true animal nature of the homo sapien species would indeed come out.  We can sit back and judge, saying this is just irrational violence, but perhaps the issue is that we have the comfortable life that allows us to say that.  In a similar situation, would we do the same?  (Sounds like the end of a Joyce Carol Oates story, now that I write that.  I did not intend that to happen!)

10/31/16 Snowpiercer assignment

What I think the most significant statement Snowpiercer is making about society is that we let the government run the people. The most important scene would be when the kids were learning about Wilford and had hand gestures for the times he was mentioned.. like Hitler sort of...

Showpiercer

I think that the constant climate change we are seeing today is very similar to the challenges facing the global populous. Summers are getting warmer and winters are getting colder. In the movie Snowpiercer it shows a condemned world to an ice age and death. But a few people remain traveling on a train breaking up snow and ice for a clean water source. Something we can even do in all parts of the world today due to water contamination. Its sad and It makes you think a lot harder about the environment that we all seem to care less and less about. Watching everyone fight for survival could be symbolism to what our civilization has to do when the world freezes over.

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Destiny Taylor
Mary Louise Hill
28 October 2016
I think snow piercer presents a real life tragedy from todays society with them having an ice age due to global warming and chemicals to see a movie bring this to life is amazing this movie presents a very real threat of todays society so the most important symbol right now is the ice age.