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Time 0:21:16
1min Snip Transcript: Frank The last of humanity on this train and the importance of continuing the human race and having the human race survived is all wrapped up in what takes place within this train. And that’s used throughout the film is used as a justification for the upper class passengers and the fucking fascists who run this train to justify their brutal treatment of the tail Section passengers, which is something we see in the real world when Imperial forces are like, well, we have to go in and kill all these people. How else are we going to maintain order if we don’t like they’re the ones not following the rules? So we have to go in and just absolutely oppress the shit out of these people and murder them. Totally. Rivka And I love that that we have this like the visual of the train just endlessly moving around. It feels like this false sense of progress and growth, but it’s really going nowhere. There’s no destination. Like it’s just this endless sort of like idea of growth. And it’s it’s progressing towards nowhere. And that to me is capitalism being driven by, you know, accumulate, accumulate, driven by profit
Time 0:30:08
1min Snip Transcript: Frank Remain in our allotted station, our preordained position. And then she puts, just in such a cruel turn, she puts the shoe on the guy’s head whose arm is literally freezing. And she’s like, would you wear a shoe on your head? No, you wouldn’t. You’d wear a hat. I am a hat. You are a shoe. Be a shoe. And it’s silly, but it’s so clear. This is what I was saying before. It’s just like everything is so clear and so simple. This idea that, you know, we are the hats. You are the shoes. These are our places. Order must be kept. And if you step out of line as the shoe, it’s actually not in your best interest for you to not want to be brutalized and murdered and have your kids stolen. It’s actually in your best interest and in all of our best interest if you just put your fucking head down and just take these beatings and whatever we do to you because this, we’re doing It for the greater good. Rivka Yeah, this first scene and this first section sets up so much. One of the big themes in this movie is the war, obviously the class war, but also the war between idealism and this ideology and these concepts that the ruling class used to keep people In place. Like you shared, Order is that barrier that holds
Time 0:33:06
1min Snip Transcript: Rivka That’m like oh gross like oh yeah like child sex slaves yeah for sure yeah which again not say there’s all kinds of exploitation but it’s like this I think is really interesting because The fear of children being used for sexual purposes and we see that we see that ideology being used in the right wing pretty successfully. You know, Hillary Clinton has these kids in the bottom of a pizza place or whatever that shit is. You know, Jeffrey Epstein, not saying that those those aren’t like realities. But I think it was so smart to play on that for the audience to be like, oh, like gross. That’s what’s happening. And what we find out at the very end is that Wilford is exploiting these children to keep the engine of the train moving. So they’re literally, there’s this stunning scene at the end where they lift up the bottom of the train and they find the child in the engine, in the fire, in the heat, running this train That’s supposed to be this miracle train, but it’s just tale as old as time. It’s child labor. It’s what Marx’s capital is all about. It always comes down to the most vulnerable,
Time 1:04:16
1min Snip Transcript: Rivka This Asian woman and a young black child. And like, I don’t know, because I was just just I was just like, there’s something also about blowing up these patriarchal systems and the intersection of patriarchy with capitalism Frank That I think was another subtext oh for sure absolutely and speaking of the the top patriarch capitalist then we actually get into Wilford’s cabin played by Ed Harris again you’re like Ed Harris fucking awesome Truman Show Truman Show yeah great always Ed a great role for him is just being like the man behind the curtain. Then we get this great scene between Chris Evans and Ed Harris, where Ed Harris is against, you know, spewing all of the ideology, all of the propaganda. You know, we must always strive for balance. And again, reiterates this idea that like this train is a closed ecosystem and everything that we have done, all of the horrors that you have endured, we did it for the sake of humanity. And then there’s the, I think, my favorite line in the movie, Ed Harris says, everyone has their preordained position and everyone is in their place except you. And Chris Evans says, that’s what people in the best place say to people in the worst place. And I thought that really, that just like, that’s the fucking movie. That’s the whole thing right there. And that’s