Snowpiercer Cultural Analysis

Most people have a natural instinct that tells them what they should do next. It can be driven by different things like desire or fear. In Snowpiercer, Curtis feels emasculated being in the back of the train under Wilford’s control so he decides to lead his section of the train through the treacherous path to the front of the train to face his fear; however, using Cohen’s fifth thesis, the film also suggests that the attraction to the mysterious front of the train and Wilford is what caused him his punishments throughout the train. Throughout the film, Curtis has a constant fight with himself to be the man he wanted to be. Throughout the movie, the audience slowly learns about the different things that make him feel so unmanly. In the scene where he learns about the cockroaches being the main ingredient in the protein bars he has unknowingly eaten for the last eighteen years, the audience sees another thing that

It is meant to prevent people from going outside of the norm in all sorts of manners. It can be an actual barrier to something geographical, but that is not necessarily always the case. It can also limit people intellectually, sexually, emotionally, economically, and physically. Meddling into the unknown creates the risk of something going askew and becoming vulnerable to the monster. Cohen believes “… curiosity is more often punished than rewarded, that one is better off safely contained within one’s own domestic sphere than abroad, away from the watchful eye of the state. The monster prevents mobility…” (Cohen 12). This keeps a restraint as to how far society can really grow and learn because of the constant fear of what the monster could do if that boundary line is passed. When that line is passed, because humans are always attracted to the mysterious unknown, there is always a punishment from the