Movie Co Written And Directed By South Korean Director, Bong Joon Ho

To start, the film seems like your basic run-on-the mill coming of age tale with a group of teenagers growing up to desire more after they graduate high school. However, there are various more themes discreetly displayed throughout the runtime of the film. For example, one central sociological overtone of this film is Marxism. With this overtone, it becomes possible to view this light-hearted and comedic movie in a

The image of the train appears several times; including when Big Boy heads home for the final time. “Big Boy slowed when he came to the railroad. He wondered if he ought to go through the streets or down the track. He decided on the tracks. He could dodge a train better than a mob.” In this section, the train serves as the carrier of Big Boy’s adulthood. By staying on the tracks he believes he is still innocent; still hidden from the mob that is after Big Boy because he murdered—certainly a crime not associated with youthful innocence. Because Big Boy is black, he never really has true innocence. He has to be mindful of his surroundings at all times, knowing that whites are always out to get him. But whatever

This movie Directed by Paul Haggis who also directed Academy Award Winning "Million Dollar Baby" and had also won an Academy Award for this movie as well puts a twisted story in this film. This movie is trying to symbolize what goes on in the world today in regards to racism and stereotypes. He tries to make a point on how societies view themselves and others in the world based on there ethnicities. This movie intertwines several different people's lives, all different races, with different types of beliefs. Such ethnicities include Caucasians, African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Middle Eastern. This movie includes conflicts on both sides of the picture from cops and criminals as well

The working class is the foundation of society which shows up in the work of Clifton. Society is built on the people that work. The working class is how everything gets done. The houses we live in, the food we eat and the materials we have are all created by the working man. They are the support of the master or the rich people. “Study the masters like my aunt timmie, it was her iron, or one life hers, that smoother the sheets the master poet slept on.” When the slaves had master, they did everything. They

The Working Poor travels into the forgotten America. It is a book about people and places that most us have never thought about. We have our debates about these people, their lifestyles, how they raise their children and where they work but we don't really know them and for the most part don't care. How many of us notice "the man who washes cars but does not own one, the clerk who files cancelled checks at the bank but has $2.02 in her own account or the woman who copyedits medical textbooks but hasn't been to a dentist in a decade?"(Shipler,3) With this book, Shipler takes you into their lives, it allows you to understand some of their choices and their lack of options. The Working Poor makes you understand what it is like to work hard,

As the movie Snowpiercer begins we see the Tail Sectioners encountering their daily routine lining up to make sure they all are accounted for as well as get their protein block for the day. Not only do we see some of the survivors from the apocalypse but we also see a form of Alienation on the train between the first class, middle class and the Tail Sectioners. We see this class system in the train because they are treated differently from the rest of the train or more so the first class, who eat steak, have fine clothes, have actual beds, services, and in general luxurious goods. Alienation as Karl Marx describes in Communist Manifesto is that “workers are turned into faceless numbers where you are not special and neither is the product of

Karl Marx developed his theory on class division by suggesting that all societies have two major classes, a ruling class and a subject class. The ruling class owned a means of production such as land or capital, whereas the subject class did not. Marx argued that this leads to the ruling class exploiting the subject class. The ruling class use a superstructure of the legal and political systems to justify its position and prevent protests by the subject class. In capitalist societies the main classes are the bourgeoisie (capitalist) and the proletariat (working class). In these societies the bourgeoisie exploits the working class through wage labour. The capitalists pay wages to the workers, but make a profit because they pay the workers less than the value of what they produce. Capitalism is the newest type of class society but it will also be the last. Eventually it will be replaced by a communist society in which the means of production

The Communist Manifesto discusses class and class struggle as a vital part of the capitalist system. Marx and Engels state that class is made up of people who are in the same position in relation to the ownership and control of the means of wealth production.(cite) For Marx and Engels the class struggle between the upper class, or bourgeoisie class and the working class, or the proletariat class is the epitome of modern social change. Marx identified three classes: wage for labor, profit for the capitalist and rent for the landowner (Knox, 1988: 160). Since capitalism succeeded in absorbing the landlord class, which left society with only two social classes: capitalists and workers. The Marxist theory of class is opposed by those people who explain class not in terms of ownership or lack of ownership, but in terms of prestige and

Trains are often used in literature to represent transition and a connection between worlds. Jim is described as being awoken from the “Red plush seat” which is a depiction of the luxury found inside of the locomotives after the boom in railroads. While the inside of the cabin is depicted as lavish the outside of the train is given a very different light. The engine is described as, “Panting heavily after its long run” which is a very human action. The personification of the train’s engine is significant in detailing how far Jim is from home and the exhaustion required to journey to new places.

Among four types of alienation that Marx provides; alienation from the product, alienation from labour process, alienation from one another, and alienation from species-being, the first one explains that what the workers made does not actually belong to them but capitalists (Marx, 1932, p. 325, 326). Furthermore, the process of activities of workers are also estranged from them because workers externalize their ability to work, labour power, to the object, but that labour power is controlled by capitalist and exists outside of workers (Marx, 1932, p. 324). As we saw in the movie, those are workers that who spend 10 hours a day at the workplace and devote themselves producing productions; however, those productions end up belonging to capitalists. For example, trains cars, clothes, and those other commodities are made by hands but it is head that who actually uses them. Consequently, in the capitalist society,

The need for a second, less class of citizenry to work is essential and they are referred to by Marx as the labour, Proletariats, or the working class. The working class exists to run the means of production, and they must sell their labour-power to the owning class in order to sustain themselves. Their skills are their only true ‘value’ in the alienated minds of the capitalists. The worker is limited with what they have to offer the capitalist and that is themselves and their individual skills as a commodity.

Although the relationship between the classes was based highly on economic standards set by society, Marx described the class relationships as social exploitation rather than an object of the labor market.5 Marx’s class relationship is described “in these two ways the worker becomes a slave to his object: firstly he receives an object of labor, that is he receives labor, and secondly, he receives the means of subsistence.”6 Marx believed that the Bourgeoisie would eventually lose its power to the working class, which would rebel against its exploitation and eventually bring about the creation of a middle class.

The members of the middle class become the tail section faceless oppressors earlier in the film curtis finds out that the guns in the back section had no bullets yet when he gets to the school/classroom section joon ho uses (symbolism) to show us where the invisible but real violence in this society really lies Boon jo ho does a great job in this scene he uses great (foreshadowing) throughout this scene for example the guns are hidden underneath eggs which represent “death in false birth”. Boon joon ho also use (symbolism) in the scene when curtis finds out that the protein bars are made a bugs. The protein bars symbolise that (tail end section) of the train, it 's like they are eating themselves which symbolises curtis 's past that he was a (cannibalist) boon joon ho uses symbolism art of hidden meaning behind something. In this case (the realization that they were the filth).We also see the use of (dialogue) in the (protein bars scene). We see this when curtis asks his friend Paul who was manufacturing the making of the protein bars to come with him to the front, he replies “ No way man my place is here” this quote shows how the system makes them believe that everyone on that train has a place in (the world/train) and should stay for or it be balanced. Boon joon ho also uses many (Camera shots) for example in the beginning of the film we are introduced to the tail end passengers with a (full shot) of the tail end carriage

The independent movie, Han Gong-Ju, which based on a real incident, is both scripted and directed by a newborn director Lee Su-Jin. The movie appears not remarkably a sensational stand out, but definitely the most representative credit among all the South Korean films of 2014. In my opinion, the best way to define a good movie is to verify if it can clearly convey the purpose to audiences, as well as impact audiences by its atmosphere. Specifically, the editing, cinematography, and narrative are the effective potentials contributing to Han Gong-Ju, that successfully delivers the powerful message which appears to be emotionally draining not only to myself, but also to the majority of the audience.

These living conditions can be paralleled to modern day society. For example, there are those who live in run down houses within the inner city as well as those living in mansions alongside rivers and lakes. This distribution of wealth, while sometimes seemingly fair, is fundamentally wrong and aids in further separating the mentalities of those on opposite sides of the financial spectrum. One key difference between the tail end and front passengers is the diet that has carried them through eighteen years on the train. While passengers in the back have been forced to survive off protein bars made from ground up crickets, the front-end passengers have feasted on foods that are thought to be extinct. In one scene of the movie, Curtis, a strong-willed leader who remembers life before the freeze, throws a gelatin bar to one of the upper-class prisoners insisting that she experience one of the many hardships that he has had to persevere through.