Train: the Most Important Element in Snowpiercer

   If new ice age starts again, what could you do to be survived? There is a place that you can live: a train. The movie named Snowpiercer, directed by Joon-ho Bong in 2013, is a science fiction thriller film that deals with living in the ice age. And the train is a very important element in the movie because it is the only place to be survived and reflects our real society.
   The train is influential in the movie because it is the only place to be survived in the ice age. The nations release the substance CW-7 with the intention of controlling the global warming, but accidentally it results in another ice age which is destroying the Earth. Then the transportation magnate, Wilford, creates a massive train named Snowpiercer which is driven by perpetual motion engine. The train travels a circumnavigation track and the survivors only can live in the train. The train is the key as the background device to make progress in the story.
   In addition, the train plays a role to reflect our real society. For 17years, the train has been hurtled around the globe creating its own economy and class system. The elite live in the front section of the train which is luxurious and extravagant having enough foods and drinks. On the other hand, a group of lower-class citizens live in squalor at the back of the train. And they are brought only gelatinous protein bars to eat and kept in their place in the social order under watch by Wilford’s guards. Those show a gap between the rich and the poor well which really exists in our society.
   The movie, Snowpiercer, could not go along without the setting train as the important place because main characters only can live in the train and reflects irrationalities of the society. And through those setting, the movie has been considered by many viewers that the subject of the movie is fresh and also it reminds people the seriousness of global warming and the problem of wealth gap.