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Very similar themes and plot and ideas of Snowpiercer!


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.

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There's definitely a connection. Since the novel of High Rise was released decades before Snowpiercer, I'm sure the writer of Snowpiercer had that book in his mind. With the movies, it's the case of the inspired somehow coming ahead of the inspiration. Similar to how John Carter of Mars was stripped mined by seemingly every sci fi movie ever, leaving the movie feeling really trite and cliched.

And this feels to me like if David Cronenberg in the early 90s made Snowpiercer.

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And this feels to me like if David Cronenberg in the early 90s made Snowpiercer.


Which is funny because David Cronenberg (who, I'm sure you know, has always cited Ballard as an inspiration and adapted his novel Crash) released Shivers the same year that High Rise was published and there are definitely parallels between the two.

It rubs the butter on it's skin, y'all.

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Yeah, theres definitely alot of snake eating its own tail going on with this.

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The thing is that Snowpiercer was intelligent, funny, entertaining, and entirely coherent. High-Rise was none of those things. Well actually not entirely true. High-Rise was entertaining. Just not intelligent, funny or coherent.

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Just came to say that. Granted I didnt think much of SP, but thought even less of this. Acting was good, but didnt like a single character and overall was way too disjointed to enjoy.

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Yes, exactly what I thought but Snowpiercer is decidedly more compelling and interesting.

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Snowpiercer is decidedly more compelling and interesting.


Although I thought Snowpiercer got rather silly in the second half, I enjoyed it a lot more than High-Rise. The characters were more interesting and the plot was easier to follow. The characters here all seemed to blend together, especially the 'upper-class' ones. The only ones who stood out for me were Luke Evans and Jeremy Irons.


And all the pieces matter (The Wire)

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I had the same thought and found Snowpiercer to be a far superior film. In a weird way, I think the implausible post-apocalyptic setting of Snowpiercer actually worked in that film's favor. Because the premise was so ludicrous on its face, I was able to suspend disbelief from the start and give myself over completely to the allegory.

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We were saying this as well. Snowpiercer, Lord of the Flies and The Exterminating Angel tossed in together.

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Very true. The uprising didn't start with "Snowpiercer," and it won't end there.

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Snowpiercer was much better. At least it was entertaining and much more bizarre. High Rise has good cinematography though and more titties, so theres that.

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