“Do you know what I really want to do? “I’m opening the door.”[정덕현의 그 영화 이 대사]｜Dong-A Ilbo

＜31＞New breakthrough

“Do you know what I really want to do? “I’m opening the door.”
―Bong Joon-ho, ‘Snowpiercer’

A scene from the movie ‘Snowpiercer’. Provided by CJ Entertainment

A frozen earth. To survive, humans live on the Snowpiercer, which travels in infinite orbit. However, there is a class system divided into head and tail compartments. Children born in the tail compartment live in a slum-like environment, but children born in the head compartment live in luxury like nobles. Director Bong Joon-ho’s movie ‘Snowpiercer’ is a work that depicts the confrontation that occurs within this hierarchical Snowpiercer between people in the tail compartment who are trying to get to the head compartment and those who are trying to stop them.

‘Snowpiercer’ is a metaphor for a polarized and classed world and asks whether the confrontation is really the solution. Curtis (Chris Evans) of the tail compartment, who led the rebellion, fights his way to the front compartment and finally encounters Wilford (Ad Harris), the absolute power of the head compartment, but is angry and despairs at what he says. Balance is essential in the closed Snowpiercer, and for that balance, things like massacres and riots become ‘drastic solutions.’

Namgoong Min-soo (Song Kang-ho) speaks to Curtis, who is heading towards the door leading to the front compartment, shouting for the liberation of the tail compartment. “Do you know what I really want to do? Opening the door. Open this door, not this door. These are the doors leading outside. Since it has been frozen for 18 years, I started to think it was a wall, but in reality, it was also a door. So, let’s open the outside door and go outside. “This is the story.” As was the case in this year’s U.S. presidential election, the confrontation between Wilford, who talks about balance and wants to maintain an unequal system, and Curtis, who says breaking the system is the only solution, seems like a two-way confrontation that appears wherever a presidential election takes place. But is either option really the only answer? Isn’t it time for a new door or a new breakthrough that Namgoong Minsu talks about?

Jeong Deok-hyeon, pop culture critic

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