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[anitanos]

Sasuke wanted to glare but his face hurt too much for that so he settled on not blinking.

[whereintheworldiskamalakhan]

so I have to get up in 4 hours to go to the airport shout out to Josie for driving me since my dad won't and MARTA doesn't run that early

[leandra-kinard]

So I saw u added to my post about Snowpiercer and I just wanted to tell you that I loved how you explained it. :D So thank you for that!

Hey, no problem. 

I must admit I did not fully understand it the first time I watched it either. I already had this "this is some kind of metaphor" feeling and some vague ideas, but only after watching a film analysis video and rewatching the movie itself did I fully get it. ^^ 

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, with the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Imagine people had tried to change the system in the GDR by joining the SED party and moving up in rank, eventually maybe making it to the very top within the existing system, changing some elements of it with baby steps, but never tearing down that wall. 

It's what many critics of the German reunification naively wanted; they wanted the GDR to move forward, to take the system that, in its core idea, was apparently so good and just and just remove (some of) the problematic factors. They believed that it would have been possible, but I - and luckily most people in this country and the world - don't believe that. 

What needed to happen was the complete breakdown of the entire system, of the physical and ideological walls keeping people from freedom and democracy. If you want to draw it back to the train analogy, that train could not go on, it needed to be stopped. 

Snowpiercer is such a relevant, important movie for so many reasons. No matter what Bong Joon-ho had in mind, first and foremost, when he made it (or the author of the graphic novel it is based on), it's an analogy that works for any oppressive regime and system in this world. Only putting these systems into new leadership will never work, never fully at least. Such systems need to be stopped and broken down in their core, with a vast, wide world of opportunity and freedom open to those previously trapped in it.