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Very similar themes and plot and ideas of Snowpiercer!

posted 9 years ago by Zurab
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Saw High-Rise last night and kept thinking how similar it is to Snowpiercer...

The people are stuck in their environments; they despise the inequality between the classes, and want get to a higher floor (or, in Snowpeircer, the front of the train).

Replace sex in High-Rise with shooting/punching as the preferred mode of self expression in Snowpiercer.

While the setting of a building/city is more plausible than the train ecosystem, I connected more with the snowpeircer story, and enjoyed it more than high-rise, despite excellent performances by Hiddleston, Irons, and the rest of the cast.

[–] StonedRose 9 years ago

Both films have a similar plot and themes to LIFE.

[–] Motoko_Kusanagi 9 years ago

Snowpiercer was a much more coherent effort.

[–] El_Guapo_Caballo 9 years ago

My vote goes to Snowpiercer as well, so much more entertaining.

[–] raputathebuta 9 years ago

Just reading the synopsis made me think of Snowpiercer immediately.

Driver picks the music, shotgun shuts his cakehole

[–] allisonarf 9 years ago

I also preferred Snowpiercer. And the main reason is that it had a hero I cared about. The main character in High Rise was as contemptible as all the other people in the building. I couldn't connect to him or care what happened to him or any of the other characters.

[–] spaceman88 9 years ago

You don't even have to see more than the trailers for both, to see the thematical similarities.

Both movies were highly anticipated ones that let me down. Still, I could enjoy "High-Rise", unlike "Snowpiercer", wich was all over the place and a lazy excuse for a thoughtful tale of dystopia. In my oppinion.

[–] terrytsilvester 9 years ago

Though High Rise (the novel) was wrote in the 70s, they'd been trying to make a film version since its release.

[–] deniseactress 9 years ago

Saw High-Rise last night and kept thinking how similar it is to Snowpiercer...

I thought the same thing....only there was a logical explanation as to why the people couldn't get off the train. I still can't figure out why the tenants simply didn't leave the building since they did leave to go to work???

what Jordie?

[–] danixdefcon5 9 years ago

I still haven't watched the movie, but the novel actually has the people slowly going kinda nuts. At first, everyone is still going to work ... but as things start to descend into madness, the residents stop going to work. They eventually start suffering something akin to that phobia concerning open spaces. It's all just crazy, but then it is a J.G. Ballard novel.

[–] CosimaValkyrie 8 years ago

A few months late here, but just finished it so it's fresh in my mind. Very quickly residents seemed to lose their connection to the outside world: Wilder asking Laine for a ride because he doesn't know where he parked, but Laine says no because he doesn't know where he is either. Little things like that where peppered through the beginning.
A few things didn't really make sense to me, but I'm not worried about it. They're not plot holes.

[–] glass_hopper 9 years ago

I posted this elsewhere but it fits the topic here too:

I've said it before in the past, but to me, this is nothing like Snowpiercer. On paper, a lot of people will make comparisons that this is like "Snowpiercer inside a building" but that's such a lazy comparison. First off, High-Rise does not seek a greater purpose like SP. It's a perverse, voyeuristic look at a microcosmic world that devalues order. The chaos never breaks outside its confines, like how SP ended up. The characters relish in anarchy. The characters in SP fight for change. High-Rise is satirical in its premise, whereas Snowpiercer is a straight forward dystopian.

"The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience." - TH

[–] DYouKnowWhatIMean 9 years ago

Loved Snowpiercer. Hated this film.

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