At first sight, Snowpiercer makes little sense. Some time in the near future, mankind has hit upon a solution to global warming which involves shooting a substance called CW-7 into the upper atmosphere so as to reduce the intensity of sunlight reaching the surface. Unfortunately this goes horribly wrong and the outside temperature plummets to minus 120 degrees Fahrenheit.
But thankfully Joseph Wilford, CEO of Wilford Industries, has built Snowpiercer, a train 1,001 cars long that circles the globe every 133 days on a track 318,000 km long. It is powered by a Perpetual Motion Engine, no less, which means that it can never stop. Indeed at one point slowing by a mere 12 percent results in severe blackouts as the batteries drain. Continue reading
