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From Night School Studio, the award-winning creators of Oxenfree, comes Mr....
A Christian Guide to Environmental Issues: Connecting Bible Insights with Contemporary Challenges
Margot Hodson and Martin Hodson
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Environmental sustainability is a major issue in society today. While Christian response was...
Aquatic Pollution: An Introductory Text
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Since the publication of the third edition of Aquatic Pollution in 2000, there have been many major...
Cities on a Finite Planet: Towards Transformative Responses to Climate Change
Sheridan Bartlett and David Satterthwaite
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Cities on a Finite Planet: Transformative responses to climate change shows how cities can combine...
Frontiers of Land and Water Governance in Urban Areas
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A society that intensifies and expands the use of land and water in urban areas needs to search for...
Frontiers of Land and Water Governance in Urban Regions
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A society that intensifies and expands the use of land and water in urban areas needs to search for...
Great Migrations: Epic Animal Journeys
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At a riverbank in Africa's Serengeti, thousands of migrating wildebeest try desperately to cross as...
Ordinary Dogs
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Eileen Battersby is the chief literature critic of "The Irish Times" and is, in the words of John...
David McK (3562 KP) rated Snowpiercer (2013) in Movies
Aug 12, 2020
The movie on which it is based.
If I'm honest, I didn't even know that there was such a thing, until I saw it pop up on Amazon Prime after having seen the trailer for the series on Netflix.
After a bit of research did nothing but say good things about both (movie and series), I thought I would give the movie a go first.
Set in the not-too-distant-future, where a science experiment to stop global warming has instead resulted in a new Ice Age, the film (and series) posits society surviving on a train that is circling the globe in perpetuity, with those in power at the front of the train (living in the lap of luxury), whilst - the further back you go - the worse conditions get. And it's at the very back of the train that we pick up, with Chris Evans (here, no Captain America!) about to lead another revolt five years after the failure of the last.
It's an interesting set-up, with some impressive (if improbable) special effects as we move up the train (and see the outside world through the windows), with Tilda Swinton stealing the show as the loathsome Minister Mason.
Now I'm off the (maybe) see what the series is like ...