Snowpiercer 3 has come up Netflix and together with this review it will accompany us until next spring on a weekly basis, continuing the story of the perpetual journey of the train that keeps warm, so to speak, the last survivors of a glaciation of the earth. The series, based on the famous 2013 film signed Bong Joon-Hoin turn taken from a French comic, delves into the history of the train of Wilford recounting events prior to those of the film. It started as a sort of detective story where the protagonist, Laytoninhabitant of the bottom of the train but the only real one detective, was commissioned by the management to investigate mysterious events that took place in the first class, at the head of the train. All this has merged with the continuous riots of the fund against the train, Wilford and a thousand other events and characters that have enriched the narration, making the world only hinted at in the film much more full-bodied. Meanwhile, the character of Melanietrue train leader, who managed to keep the absence from the train hidden for years of the same creator, Wilford, who turns out to be in reality anything but a philanthropist, but a true villain.
Sean Pean is villain Wilford
We met him in the second season, when with the second train, the Big Alicehad managed to hook into the Snowpiercer and to take it back over the course of the episodes, creating a rift between the three thousand inhabitants. His followers, those who had always believed him in the train to guarantee their survival and who now finally find him again; his opponents of him, those who believe in the figure of Melanie, supported by Layton, who in the meantime has become the leader of the first successful revolt in the history of the Snowpiercer, which has achieved the union of the classes in one. Between Melanie trying to steal the train from Wilford again – who instead tries to steal her daughter permanently from her Alex, Big Alice engine driver – e Ruth, head of hospitality who passes from Wilford’s loyalist to the other shore, experiments begin around the world, in search of the hottest areas where perhaps the glaciation will soon pass. On one of these missions, Melanie is lost. We find in this third season Wilford head of a dying Snowpiercer, at the end of his strength, with little manpower and a reduced ability to create energy and heat. Many of his wagons are in fact dull, cold and food is starting to run out. Inside, in the shadows, Ruth e Pike they plot to oust Wilford. Meanwhile, Layton, Alex and Melanie’s former fellow machinists, confined to the Big Alice in a sort of exile, continue their experiments and look for a way to reconnect to the Snowpiercer and save it from Wilford’s double ends.
Snowpiercer 3 and Wilford’s protagonism
About 90 minutes in total these first two episodes of Snowpiercer 3 and it cannot be said in a review that it is sincere that they are so entertaining. In fact, a bit of tiredness in the format is felt, especially thinking about where this series will lead (knowing the story of the film) and the fact that there will exist, and we already know, a fourth season. Apart from the very good Sean Pean that gives life to the villain Wilford already a bit too stereotyped and loaded, there is not a character that stands out, much less Layton. A little thanks to the soup of situations and missions left open, which we will certainly deepen later, there is not enough space for characterization and the claustrophobia. Right, very right inside a train of 1023 carriages (apart from some new external setting). After all, the setting is well done on screen, but the claustrophobia is becoming artistic. The events are becoming a bit redundant and to move forward it seems they are bending towards being more and more improbable, in contrast to the genius that gave the opening words to the first season of the series, which made it so original despite the film from which was treated.
Not such an amazing third season start, but the second episode’s ending would seem to trigger a moment of action, which will surely unfold in the central episodes. We’ll see, in the meantime we look forward to the next review of Snowpiercer 3 which will arrive in a week, on the occasion of the third episode to be released on Netflix.
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