Gilliam’s and Wilford’s relationship in Snowpiercer A month pass by, and Wilford’s soldiers come back with protein blocks to feed the passengers. Curtis tries to cut his arm too but is unable to build that kind of courage. And then one by one, other people in the tail section start cutting arms and legs and offering them. The old man is someone by the name of Gilliam (John). He kills a woman who is hiding and takes her baby but is interrupted by an old man who cuts his own arm off and asks people to feed on it and spare the baby. Curtis (Chris) is one such passenger who turned cannibal in the tail section. It goes from there to eating babies as they taste better. After a month, they go cannibal and eat the weak. Wilford’s soldiers take everything that the tail section passengers have and leave them with no food or water. The train is organized like any transport service, upper classes at front, lower (economy) classes at the back, and finally a tail section for the free-loaders. The last of the survivors find themselves a place in the rear compartments of the train and the rest of humanity dies an icy death. The train’s first set of passengers begin their journey, and the world starts freezing over. Now, it is advertised that Wilford created the train because he foresaw what the CW-7 would do, but it could merely have been a train for a traveling experience which later became a life-saver. He designs a train powered by this engine to have it circumvent the globe. While this initially reduces the heat, it leads to a hell-freezes-over situation and the planet turns into a snow cone.Ī while before the CW-7 dispersal, Wilford (Ed), a genius of sorts, invents a perpetual engine. To counter this, scientists come up with a chemical called CW-7 (an artificial cooling substance) which is dispersed into the air. Humans have destroyed the planet’s atmosphere causing a severe situation of global warming. Now if we replace the fish with humans, the tank with a train, the food-chain with a class-hierarchy … we have the movie Snowpiercer. If there are too many plant-eaters, they will eventually consume all the plantation, starve, and die to cascade up to the higher levels. There needs to be a healthy balance maintained at each level else the ecosystem will collapse. The fishes on the bottom of the food chain are consumed by the ones higher up. It is a closed ecosystem and unlike the ocean, this is a monitored one, usually by a human. It contains fishes that feed on plants and fishes that feed on other fishes. Let us for a moment consider a large fish tank that has a variety of fishes. I’m going to jump straight into an analogy that Snowpiercer gives us. – Why keep the tail-enders alive at all?.Here are links to the key aspects of the movie:
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