S.NOWPIERCER
Genre: Fantapolitics
Direction: Graeme Manson and Josh Friedman. With Daveed Diggs, Jennifer Connelly, Alison Wright. On Netflix
Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly in “Snowpiercer” (photo Contrasto).
An environmental catastrophe, an exterminated world population with few survivors, a train like Noah’s ark which saves people, but which internally reproduces and exacerbates inequalities.
There are all the narrative ingredients of the dystopian and post-apocalyptic tale in Snowpierceravailable on Netflix in three seasons.
Inspired by South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 film of the same name (the same as Parasite and who also signs this adaptation), in turn taken from the 1982 graphic novel The Transpercenèige, the series is the prequel to the film and places the events five years earlier.
We are in 2026a future to be imagined as a “possible present”, in which, due to the failed attempts to remedy global warming, the world is an ice desert.
The Snowpiercer is a 1,001-wagon long train designed by a certain Mr. Wilford that travels in perpetual motion around the earth bringing the lucky ones to safety.
At the beginning of the series, there is a mass of dispossessed who break through the guards and gain access to the train. But salvation involves a revival of the injustices, even accentuated ones, of the old world.
For those who love apocalyptic triggers and closed environments in which to observe new relational dynamics.
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