The Engine Room In Snowpiercer's The Curtis Revolution

The Curtis Revolution eventually reaches its destination at the engine room, where the leader and inventor of Snowpiercer resides and dictates everything that happens in his train. Though the engine room may initially appear as a sanctum of power and control, Bong Joon-ho once again manipulates recurring colors and the actual symbol of the engine in order to illustrate the engine room as ominously similar to the tail section it oppresses most. With this motif of an unfairly ordered train, Joon-ho achieves a enlightening revelation about Snowpiercer's system as a whole, as the immoralities of its capitalistic social structure are fully exposed along with the train's entire length. Joon-ho makes a statement concerning the humanistic qualities of the lower and higher class through the unsuspected similarities in color tones from the very back to the very front. When comparing the colors that make up the front and those in the back, both consist of the same bleak undertones that were initially introduced with the impoverished, dirty lower class. In fact, the engine room is the only other time that the muted tones of gray and subtle blue return as the main focus in the color scheme, just more polished and clean than that of the tail section (Snowpiercer). When he arrives at the engine room, Curtis learns about the inner workings of Snowpiercer: how the tail section’s rebellion was manipulated by creator Wilford himself, and its main purpose was to lure Curtis into becoming

Throughout the entire length of the train, Joon-ho reiterates the idea that the “order” in Snowpiercer is really an excuse for the suppression of the unlucky tail section. Overall, the policy of private ownership by the upper class and consequential unprivileged state of the masses becomes the epitome of harsh immorality in