it’s an allegory The train has to keep moving or else it stops generating power. If they stop the train the wheels freeze. As for why a train it wasn’t suppose to be a lifeboat for humanity it was suppose to be a tourist attraction which is why it goes around the world.
Source: Took it once back in college and lost an arm. 2/10 the place smelled awful.
Obviously a simple tourist attraction would not be designed to be fully sustainable for years and years. If they had time to adapt the train to be self sufficient they would have time to build a circular track that doesn’t go over bridges and stuff. And the “moving to generate power” thing obviously also doesn’t make sense. It supposed to be some sort of magical perpetuum mobile. But again, doesn’t matter. The movie was still great. Even the show was good.
It was advertised as a perpetual mobile machine, but as we found out that was a lie. It was originally just a luxury train cruise, but then the freezing started so they repurposed it to be a self sustaining life raft. But once again, nothing lasts forever.
It seems like the biggest issue with the movie you might have is lack of detail, you can read the source material. It’s not that ridiculous that eccentric billionaire converts their over engineered luxery cruise line to survive the apocalypse.
It’s not really that important. If you consider Snowpiercer train technology physically plausible… that’s cool. For me it’s all incredibly silly but the movie still works. It’s clear it was just an allegory and the world is absurd on purpose. They didn’t want to create an almost correct world so they created a crazy one.
it’s an allegoryThe train has to keep moving or else it stops generating power. If they stop the train the wheels freeze. As for why a train it wasn’t suppose to be a lifeboat for humanity it was suppose to be a tourist attraction which is why it goes around the world.Source: Took it once back in college and lost an arm. 2/10 the place smelled awful.
Obviously a simple tourist attraction would not be designed to be fully sustainable for years and years. If they had time to adapt the train to be self sufficient they would have time to build a circular track that doesn’t go over bridges and stuff. And the “moving to generate power” thing obviously also doesn’t make sense. It supposed to be some sort of magical perpetuum mobile. But again, doesn’t matter. The movie was still great. Even the show was good.
It was advertised as a perpetual mobile machine, but as we found out that was a lie. It was originally just a luxury train cruise, but then the freezing started so they repurposed it to be a self sustaining life raft. But once again, nothing lasts forever.
It seems like the biggest issue with the movie you might have is lack of detail, you can read the source material. It’s not that ridiculous that eccentric billionaire converts their over engineered luxery cruise line to survive the apocalypse.
Nope, it is a perpetual motion machine (https://snowpiercer.fandom.com/wiki/The_Engine) which is psychically impossible.
It’s not really that important. If you consider Snowpiercer train technology physically plausible… that’s cool. For me it’s all incredibly silly but the movie still works. It’s clear it was just an allegory and the world is absurd on purpose. They didn’t want to create an almost correct world so they created a crazy one.