Snowpiercer Bong Joon-ho

In Victor Pelevin’s novel, The Yellow Arrow, there is an evident string of symbols and metaphors which represent the harsh conditions of the Russian people during the early 1990’s. One of the literally largest symbols in the novel was the train...

On the surface, Bong Joon-Ho's Snowpiercer is quite literally a linear story. After a mass extinction event leaving the world in uninhabitable cold, the last fraction of humanity survives on an ark-like train that will travel around the world in...