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Jul. 11th, 2014 11:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
skygiantsSo aberration and I just got back from seeing Snowpiercer. It took us about an hour to get back from Manhattan and the entire ride went like this:
VERONICA: It was very pretty! The logistics were not the point.
BECCA: Right! THE POINT WAS ALLEGORY. ALLEGORY WAS THE POINT.
[PAUSE]
BECCA: I mean it kind of makes no sense that [thing that makes no sense], but -
VERONICA: Logistics are not the point!
BECCA: RIGHT.
VERONICA: ...I mean I guess they were going through the Arctic, but did they build a bridge or -
BECCA: Logistics are not the point!
VERONICA: RIGHT.
BECCA: I mean, I still don't understand why they even had a prison section to -- sorry! SORRY. IT'S AN ALLEGORY. IT'S AN ALLEGORY.
[lather, rinse, repeat]
I mean, I do not disapprove of the allegory, and I certainly do not find it irrelevant, but all the same the whole thing felt kind of fascinatingly throwback. I could easily imagine Snowpiercer being written in the 1910s. In fact the whole time I kept having flashbacks to The Iron Heel.
aberration and I just got back from seeing Snowpiercer. It took us about an hour to get back from Manhattan and the entire ride went like this:VERONICA: It was very pretty! The logistics were not the point.
BECCA: Right! THE POINT WAS ALLEGORY. ALLEGORY WAS THE POINT.
[PAUSE]
BECCA: I mean it kind of makes no sense that [thing that makes no sense], but -
VERONICA: Logistics are not the point!
BECCA: RIGHT.
VERONICA: ...I mean I guess they were going through the Arctic, but did they build a bridge or -
BECCA: Logistics are not the point!
VERONICA: RIGHT.
BECCA: I mean, I still don't understand why they even had a prison section to -- sorry! SORRY. IT'S AN ALLEGORY. IT'S AN ALLEGORY.
[lather, rinse, repeat]
I mean, I do not disapprove of the allegory, and I certainly do not find it irrelevant, but all the same the whole thing felt kind of fascinatingly throwback. I could easily imagine Snowpiercer being written in the 1910s. In fact the whole time I kept having flashbacks to The Iron Heel.
