# Can "Snowpiercer" possibly not be as stupid as it sounds? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 27, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-snowpiercer-possibly-not-be-as-stupid-as-it-sounds/691825 "2014-06-27T23:40:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2014, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-snowpiercer-possibly-not-be-as-stupid-as-it-sounds/691825/1 "2014-06-27T23:40:48Z")
The only human survivors of a snowball Earth are on a perpetually-traveling train. Why? I don’t know. The train supposedly runs on perpetual motion(!), except where slave labor somehow is more energy-efficient than machinery. They get food and other supplies from who knows where. In the narrow confines of the train, a caste system has been set up, segregating absolute poverty and decadent luxury. The rebelling underclass hero decides that it’s better to nihilistically destroy the train and possibly doom the human race to extinction rather than suffer the status quo. The only way this makes any sense is that the setting is merely a surrealistic backdrop to a fable about class struggle. As science fiction, it’s retarded. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-snowpiercer-possibly-not-be-as-stupid-as-it-sounds/691825)._