【电影简介】

2031年，人类试图阻止全球变暖的实验失败，极寒造成地球上绝大部分生命死亡。在冰河灾难中幸存下来的所有人登上了一辆如同诺亚方舟的列车，列车依靠永动机绕着地球不停行驶。在这列车厢有着等级之分的列车上，饱受饥饿之苦、生活在恶劣环境的末节车厢的人们在革命领袖柯蒂斯的带领下，为了生存一节车厢一节车厢的向前突进，掀起了一场向车头进军的“革命”。

【音频文本】

Just one month ago, South Korean soap opera "My Love from the Stars" reached insane levels of popularity in China. Its lead actor Kim Soo-Hyun is still raking in appearance fees from various commercial events in China.

But South Korean films are quite a different story. The country's most expensive co-production to date, "Snowpiercer", is now being screened in China and has fallen behind Chinese art-house movie "Black Coal, Thin Ice" in terms of box office earnings. That's important because as we mentioned last week art-house filmsdon't usually sell very well in China.

Strangely enough, the Bong Joon-ho movie is an excellent product and deserves better recognition. Some of my better-informed colleagues decided to watch it simply because it was made by the director of "Memories of Murder" and "The Host". Yet the majority of Chinese viewers haven't been able to warm up to the film's allegorical title.

More allegorical is the story. Set in a post-apocalyptic future, "Snowpiercer" revolves around a world-touring behemoth of a locomotive which carries onboard the surviving population of mankind after an environmental breakdown. Our lead character Curtis is an underdog passenger living in the tail section, which means, he is at the bottom of the train's social system. Alongside an equally discontent fellowship of passengers, Curtis starts a revolt against the system and seeks to take control of the train. But as he advances further into the front section, he gets a larger picture of human existence in such a miniature society, and he is compelled to make a decision when he meets the captain in the engine room.

While the setting is a metaphor to a world where the social hierarchies are frozen and social mobility impossible, the storyline reveals the worldview of the original storywriter Jacques Lob. You may agree to disagree with his portrayal, but the seed of doubt has been sown. Bong Joon-ho's film adaptation successfullyconveys the author's idea and at the same time leads many viewers to explore the issue themselves and comeup with their own answer.

If you think this film sounds too serious, don't be put off because it is also very entertaining. Lead actor Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho and many of the film's other male actors go to great lengths to stage impressive and realistic action scenes throughout. Their masculinity is balanced by the spirited acting of Tilda Swinton, who supplies quite a few laughs with her quaint accent, gloomy smirks and frenzied gestures.

So, "Snowpiercer" is actually not bad. But since it's not as brainless as South Korean soap operas, it's not easily digestible for lazy moviegoers.

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