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Plot Holes ( S P O I L E R S )

posted 4 years ago by KutWrite (1334)
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So many plot holes:

Where did little TImmy suddenly get his custom-made parka and matching boots?

Why didn't the madman-fighter (white guy) die with two swords in him, but the Korean guy (Nam?) could snap his neck?

Why blow up the train and kill everyone, possibly even yourself, rather than take the offered Leadership and stop it someplace where everyone would have a chance at building something... even if they stay in the train for a year or more and let the engine warm it?

In a world (remember that announcer?) where all life has died out, but polar bears may be coming back, how does a lone bear get all the way inland to an Austrian mountain range, where there are no fish not only there, but along the way to fuel his long climbing trek?

Who taught Andy and Timmy how to run the train & how do they eat, sleep and poop when trapped in those work stations? I repeat the latter question for the prisoners locked in drawers?

Why haven't people learned a common language in 18 years of living together?

Who maintains the track and how? In fact, why a train and not just a redesigned building? Someone said "ship," but I assume the oceans are also frozen.

How was this the first avalanche to threaten the train in all these (18?) years?

[–] Pesebrero (206) 3 years ago

A plot hole is a contradiction within the movie script or movie "logic". Unexplained, illogical or plain stupid things (like the ones you list) aren't plot holes.

Why blow up the train and kill everyone, possibly even yourself, rather than take the offered Leadership and stop it someplace where everyone would have a chance at building something...

This is closer to an actual plothole. But Curtis didn't had to accept the offered leadership. He already had it de facto during the climax of the movie, when the fat lady bodyguard was down. Wilford was no threat, the only immediate threat was the stoned upper class mob close to the bridge (but if you watch closely, they weren't crossing it, just watching the fight between Namgoong and the henchman). At this point, Curtis just had to stop the train, THEN give the match to Yona to blow the door. Instead, he was obsessed with saving the kid... from what? From the very same trainwreck he was about to trigger? The derailment put everyone's life at stake.

To be fair, stopping the train later was not possible, because even if they closed the door (already unlocked) to be safe from the angry mob, both Namgoong and Curtis were bleeding, with limited supplies from that room, and months away from a warmer location. Then again, even with the train's intrincated path (perfectly seen on a map), it wouldn't take a year for it to complete one lap around the world, if you consider the depicted speed. Trans Siberian takes one week to travel across Russia at slower speeds, so I'd say 2 months top for the Snowpiercer to travel around the world. That's another potential plothole.

In the end, if you're a smart person, you will not enjoy this movie. The idiotic premise of surviving apocalypse on a moving train is just the tip of the iceberg. There're a lot of utterly stupid things going on in this movie, you just named a few and there are many others in this board. My personal favorite is when they fired machine guns with the precision of a sniper rifle, from one wagon to another at least 100 meters away AND with the train moving. Oh, sure, call all this lack of "suspension of disbelief", which seems to be a made up term by moviemakers to justify shitty scriptwriting and teabagging moviegoers.

[–] grhqofb5 (358) 2 years ago

Here’s a couple more…

How’s the guy with the frozen arm all the sudden heal up enough to fight?

Where did all of the bugs come from for the protein blocks?

Where were they raising cattle for all off the beef In the freezer?

[–] ShogunofYonkers (78448) 3 years ago

You mention a lot of good questions
Overall I really enjoyed the movie but you wound up thinking ‘how could this be?’ several times

I did enjoy the climactic question of maintaining a rigid class system vs. communal living…’share the wealth’ and all of that

Wilford made a few good points and supported his argument with very strict structures in place

The destruction of the Snowpiercer likely doomed humanity