Train is Going in Circles For 17 Years And If it Stops, it's The End of Humanity

An experiment to fix global warming fails and causes a new ice age, forcing the few surviving humans to live in a special train where each car represents a class.

[ducksauce]

Fun facts: This movie was directed and written by Bong Joon Ho, the same guy who wrote and directed the Oscar winning film, Parasite. Also the actor who played Nam is the South Korean actor Song Kang Ho, who played the dad of the poor family in Parasite. The director eally likes to make movies about socioeconomic disparities.

[guest]

"They go outside and watch a polar bear as they realize they won't die from freezing." No, they'll die by being eaten by a polar bear.

[Furgettyu]

Considering, that railway service used to collapse if 5 cms of snow falls, to keep it run continuously is even much bigger achievement then building a perpetual engine 😂

[pniranjan]

The whole movie plot was an analogy to the world. Every compartment depicts a social ladder and how people behind that are forbidden or discouraged to cross the limits. Train is life and social framework.

[VeronicaMowery]

"What happens if the engine stops, we all freeze and die" song the kids sing. My kids sang that for months after this movie came out.

[Mike__B]

I forget why they had to keep going on the train, I mean if they made a perpetual motion engine (or whatever) you'd think they could use that to power a heater inside a big dome or something where people can live. Bottom line is they're using all this energy to move a train, which really isn't doing much of anything.

[snifey]

While everyone in a train, 12 thousand finnish couldn't tell the difference between an ice age and a winter in Finland

[GracedApollo]

"Then suddenly, Curtis slips on the fish"


Ladies and Gentlemen, Peak writing.

[helgeschneider]

The ending always felt kind of stupid to me. Sure, the infrastructure and buildings of the old world are all still there, but the train crashed somewhere in a mountain range, far away from the remnants of civilization and we learn in the beginning that a short amount of time is enough to not just cause deadly hypothermia but actually turn you into a human popsicle. They could stay inside the wrecked train, but without the engine there is no power, so the temperature will eventually sink to a deadly level as well. The food is also ruined from the crash, all of the animals are probably dead. Though at least refrigeration won't be a very big problem.

[daviddevlogger]

My neighbor came back drunk today and has been knocking at his own door since morning should I tell him that he’s not around??

[Paul-ourx]

If you had a perpetual engine you could produce enough power to survive without a train in a heated underground habitat with everything the train had and more.

[Furgettyu]

Wilford built a perpetual engine, but he didn't manage to make it working on a fixed place, producing just power instead of running a train around for nothing...
... or he is simply a railway fanatic 😂

[scottpagan]

The movie was outstanding. I watched it with my sister & 3 of her friends. The point where they showed their food bars were made of cockroaches: Three women in unison screaming that scream all men know still haunts me

[clu]

“They go outside and watch a polar bear as they realise they won’t die from freezing” Is exactly the opposite thing I think about when i see a polar bear.

[KamiCorp]

For those that don't know, there's also a TV series called "Snow Piercer" as well! Worth a watch!

[doctorteethomega]

Anyone ever hear the theory that this is the sequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory? It's amazing and totally fits. Charlie grew up, renamed himself Wilford in honor of his mentor, and used the skills he was taught making food and fantastical machines to make the train. There are so many other details that work too. Seriously look it up.

[RyonMugen]

I don't know how i feel about a DENTIST in a moving train. That sounds like a HORRIBLE experience!

[rashido_grey]

Surprised you didn't start off with the animated short / prelude to the film. Over time, I've always wondered why they didn't use the engine to make heat. Like I get that Wilford had an obsession with trains... but if you have an engine thats perpetual then you have unlimted heat as well. I've seen this movie a few times, and even in the recap when it gets to the end is so mind blowing.

[Mattthewanderer]

I tried, really tried to watch this movie on three different nights and it was just too painfully slow and boring to keep going. Congrats on making it through the entire thing without dying and thank you for your sacrifice.

[RunninBackchic]

When Curtis describes how the poor ate most of the babies 😢….