Snowpiercer does BIFF

Wowie Cowie, we're talk'n blockbuster on steroids.
Yet to be shown in the western world but so ripe to be the crossover hit, I was privilleged enough to see the director's cut because you guys at home will see a different version. The foreign film butcher/distributor Harvey Weinstein has the rights to the film in our territories, and he has the final edit rights too and I can guarantee it will be differnet. This is not just my opinion, Director Bong Joon Ho echoes the same sentiments.

Bong Joon Ho

The scenario is truly fantastic. The world has frozen over after a botched attempt to halt global warming and the only people alive are on a special purpose built train (a sorta Noahs Ark) that takes a year to travel around the world. If the train stops, they all die. The train is a complete and sustainable ecosystem. They have been on the train for 17 years.

Reflecting society the train has the haves and the have nots. The story starts in the tail end of the train where life is most shitful. Cramped, squalid, down trodden and fully resentful, these people are ripe for rebellion and the film follows their bloody struggle up through the train to get to the engine and hence have control of the train. It's gotta a lot of suspense and action and it's a rollicking tale.
Most of the film is in English and most of the cast are not Korean.

It's a real privilege to hear from the director his intentions after just seeing the film and I was lucky enough to hear him speak on two different occasions. The second time with Quentin Tarantino.

 There was a little bit of controversy about this film being screened at BIFF this year as it has had it's commercial cinema release in South Korea already earlier this year and the fact that it is a big budget blockbuster commercial type film. But the idea was that it is set for a large international release and that BIFF is attended by a largeish international audience and certainly at the screening I attended I think about half the audience were international. I for one very much welcomed the decision to show it. The film is a gas!

Tarantino & Bong shooting the breeze