K so I first thought it was a fever dream I had. When I was looking for photos for the review I saw the thumbnail of that video in the images and I thought it was a gag or a one-shot photoshop or something. But your ask actually made me find these videos to watch.

Originally, I was interested in the comparisons between the movie. Like a “oh yeah, look how similar they are” like I was humoring the idea of the crossover.

But then they got to the Oompa Lumpa part. And that basically cemented it for it. Snowpiercer is a post-apocalyptic sequel to Willy Wonka, end of story. I’m a full believer now.

SNOWPIERCER

Snowpiercer is an excellent movie that focuses on class warfare and I was screaming every minute of the way.

I don’t really know where to start since I want to scream about everything, so I’ll just give an overview of the plot and then go from there.

So the world is fucked. To combat global warming people shot missles into the atmosphere to fix things, which A) doesn’t and B) freezes the whole world instead into eternal antarctic. The only remembrance of humanity lives on one train, which never stops and continues to run on an eternal looping track. With each car, humanity is divided literally into sectors and sections with the poorest of the poor at the back of the train. Tired of the subjugation, Curtis stages a revolt to try and take over the train.

The set designs in this is beautiful. From the beginning all we see are drab colors, dull browns/blacks/greys. Like life was just sucked out of everything. Here we see the brutality towards the train’s back, the “freeloaders” as they are called. And then, then a woman with a fucking pristine yellow dress came and took children away and I saw red. Because of course only the rich and higher class can get colors, can be clean, can boldly wear yellow to stick out like a sore thumb and just be overall revolting. God I still hate that woman, her and her ugly yellow dress. GAH!!

This movie does not skimp of the brutality here. You see people bleed, injured, suffering, all in like the first 15 minutes of the movie.

Yall, I had to pause the movie and take a break when this scene came up. I was so fucking angry over what they did I had to take a break. This is a completely different woman than before, but I hated her for different reasons. It was a torture scene. They did a fucking torture scene while this woman stands there in her color and basically scolds them as if they were children!! It was horrendous. HORRIBLE! Ohhhhh we still get gruesome scenes in the future, but this one is probably my most hated. Fuck You lady!

Then after the introduction of the two most hated women in the movie, we finally get justice. The revolution starts! Viva la caboose people!

To help them, they picked up a prisoner named Namgoong, who can open the doors to the rest of the train. I love international movies like this, because they did the same style of translation like in Animal World. They speak in the device, and they have the device translate, so you still have people talk naturally in their own language. It is just a clever way to have communication without overdubbing everything.

Plus, Namgoong and his daughter Yona are my two favorites characters. They literally don’t give a shit, just try to do their own thing and just shit talk to everyone. Hearing an AI say “dumb fuck” is still a joy to me.

This movie is so brilliant in how it can both amaze and horrify me. It feels like an alternate version of “Stakes and Torches“ by Aurelio Voltaire.

Because there was obviously a lot of effort put into the logistics of how the hell would a train like this function. How would humanity keep getting food, water, heat, supplies, all while being trapped in a moving tube. It feels a little like Mad Max: Fury Road, where the movie doesn’t really need to explain everything, but gives us enough to fill in the pieces. And because the train-end people never saw any of this before, we are experiencing the same things at the same time. Hell they never even had any windows back there, so seeing the outside world is still a shock to us all.

But on the flip side, this train had all this wonderful, peaceful, enjoyable thing. And the rich couldn’t share? They couldn’t help? They fucking chose not to while the people in the back were suffering?? The antagonists talk about maintaining balance, which I get why. This train is a closed system. If equilibrium isn’t met, then it could kill the supply for everyone. But they use this idea as justification for the pain it causes, and it is honestly leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

As it should, since the entire theme of this movie is class warfare.

This is a serious movie, but there is I think just enough lighthearted moments to keep it from being too depressing. Like during the horrible speech scene, you have people trying to translate the speech as she is giving it in real time. Or you see a conductor just keep clicking his counter thing during a fight to count how many are killed. Not to mention everything dealing with Namgoong and Yona. They are perfection throughout this entire film.

It’s going to be a tv series soon and honestly I can see why. Like there is soooo much that they can explore here. The train is supposed to be 1000 carts, and we only saw like, 10-20 different areas. They can dive deeper into what the movie touched on, hell what I touched on. I barely made a dent in describing the things things this movie has, and like hell am I going to ruin/spoil the ending of this movie for you guys.

Because at the very end, when I just so overcome with despair and sadness over what happened, the movie gave me a glimmer of hope, that one moment of feeling that no matter what, there is still a way, and I think that’s beautiful.

So 100% percent would absolutely recommend! This is such a great movie and I am absolutely tuning in to see the tv show when it airs.