MOVIE OF THE MONTH: AUGUST 2014

                                                  
Director        : Bong Joon-ho
Story             : Bong Joon-ho
Music            : Marco Beltrami
Camera         : Hong Kyung-pyo
Running time: 126 minutes
Country         : South Korea
Language       : English

The movie is set in the future. Countries spray the sky with a compound that ends up global warming. It stopped the warming, but the Earth becomes frozen killing off most of the world.

Except for one train. A train powered by a perpetual motion machine in the engine and with a complete self-contained and self-sustained ecosystem inside. 

The train Snowpiercer can plow through the snows and avalanches on the train, scoops up snow at the engine, filters and purifies that snow and provides water for the passengers.

It is a huge train and since the entire world is frozen over, it circles the planet over and over and over and over again. The poor and handicapped live in the back. 

Shortly after they boarded their possessions and food were taken away and many died. Now they are provided meager protein bars to survive.

Their children are routinely taken to the front of the train (never to be seen again) and others make that trip, too. At the front of the train the wealthy live a life of opulence and hedonism. 

A man named Curtis has become a kind of leader at the back of the train. He has slowly been organizing those around him to come up with a plan that will lead to revolt so that his people can live.  

For those looking for it, perhaps there is a message about class and treating your fellow humans right. It's just a good story told well. That's better than a lot of what you find in the theaters these days.

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