"OUR STEAM LOCOMOTIVE, FLY AHEAD...": THE POST-APOCALYPTIC "MACHINERY" OF THE LINEAR SOCIAL HIERARCHY IN THE FILM " SNOWPIERCER"
Journal: Industrii vpečatlenij. Tehnologii sociokulʹturnyh issledovanij.
Year: 2025

The article analyzes the artistic model of director Bong Joon-ho, presented in the film "Snowpiercer" (2013). The film in the spirit of a classic post-apocalypse tells the story of the fate of humanity, which barely survived as a result of ill-considered experiments of scientists with climate change. The surviving remnants of humanity find themselves eternal prisoners of a train, which is forced to continuously move along a forever frozen planet. Train-society represents the quintessence of expe