Snow Piercer/雪国列车/설국열차

This movie is kind of a perfect metaphor for a totalitarian society, and it surprised me that it was released publicly in Mainland China. Inter-class barriers and hostility, social philosophy based on leaders-first and fatalism, and even artificial population control conspiracy, are all similar to the history of totalitarian societies such as China. Well, compared to the simple idea of "to replace a terror with another terror", the movie thought further: the so-called revolution is just the turnover and cycle of terrorists, the people must find something new to break the vicious circle, which is, in the movie, to break the closed tanks of the train.

Incidentally, the movie reminded me of "The Matrix Reloaded". In a way, the matrix is kind of a closed similar circle.

本片真是极权社会的极佳隐喻，所以很令我感到奇怪它居然还能在中国大陆上映。阶层的隔阂与对立，以领袖论-宿命论为支柱的社会哲学，甚至人为控制人口的阴谋，都与极权社会（譬如中国）的历史有颇多相似之处。与“以暴易暴”的简单思维相比，本片的思维显然更进一步：革命不过是统治者的更替和轮回，要打破这个恶性循环，就要寻找新的出路——在电影里，也就是打破列车的封闭。

顺便提一句，本片让我想起了《黑客帝国2》。在某种程度上，矩阵其实也是一个封闭循环。

Performance impression:
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Cast: Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Ed Harris, Octavia Spencer