• usrtrv@sh.itjust.works
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    5 hours ago

    It was advertised as a perpetual mobile machine, but as we found out that was a lie. It was originally just a luxury train cruise, but then the freezing started so they repurposed it to be a self sustaining life raft. But once again, nothing lasts forever.

    It seems like the biggest issue with the movie you might have is lack of detail, you can read the source material. It’s not that ridiculous that eccentric billionaire converts their over engineered luxery cruise line to survive the apocalypse.

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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      3 hours ago

      Nope, it is a perpetual motion machine (https://snowpiercer.fandom.com/wiki/The_Engine) which is psychically impossible.

      It’s not really that important. If you consider Snowpiercer train technology physically plausible… that’s cool. For me it’s all incredibly silly but the movie still works. It’s clear it was just an allegory and the world is absurd on purpose. They didn’t want to create an almost correct world so they created a crazy one.