Very similar themes and plot and ideas of Snowpiercer!
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — High-Rise
Zurab — 9 years ago(May 01, 2016 09:49 AM)
Saw High-Rise last night and kept thinking how similar it is to Snowpiercer
The people are stuck in their environments; they despise the inequality between the classes, and want get to a higher floor (or, in Snowpeircer, the
front of the train
).
Replace sex in High-Rise with shooting/punching as the preferred mode of self expression in Snowpiercer.
While the setting of a building/city is more plausible than the train ecosystem, I connected more with the snowpeircer story, and enjoyed it more than high-rise, despite excellent performances by Hiddleston, Irons, and the rest of the cast. -
allisonarf — 9 years ago(May 04, 2016 07:31 PM)
I also preferred Snowpiercer. And the main reason is that it had a hero I cared about. The main character in High Rise was as contemptible as all the other people in the building. I couldn't connect to him or care what happened to him or any of the other characters.
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spaceman88 — 9 years ago(May 05, 2016 03:54 AM)
You don't even have to see more than the trailers for both, to see the thematical similarities.
Both movies were highly anticipated ones that let me down. Still, I could enjoy "High-Rise", unlike "Snowpiercer", wich was all over the place and a lazy excuse for a thoughtful tale of dystopia. In my oppinion. -
deniseactress — 9 years ago(May 11, 2016 11:40 AM)
Saw High-Rise last night and kept thinking how similar it is to Snowpiercer
I thought the same thing.only there was a logical explanation as to why the people couldn't get off the train. I still can't figure out why the tenants simply didn't leave the building since they did leave to go to work???
what Jordie? -
danixdefcon5 — 9 years ago(May 18, 2016 08:10 PM)
I still haven't watched the movie, but the novel actually has the people slowly going kinda nuts. At first, everyone is still going to work but as things start to descend into madness, the residents stop going to work. They eventually start suffering something akin to that phobia concerning open spaces. It's all just crazy, but then it
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CosimaValkyrie — 9 years ago(October 04, 2016 02:56 PM)
A few months late here, but just finished it so it's fresh in my mind. Very quickly residents seemed to lose their connection to the outside world: Wilder asking Laine for a ride because he doesn't know where he parked, but Laine says no because he doesn't know where he is either. Little things like that where peppered through the beginning.
A few things didn't really make sense to me, but I'm not worried about it. They're not plot holes. -
glass_hopper — 9 years ago(May 11, 2016 11:42 AM)
I posted this elsewhere but it fits the topic here too:
I've said it before in the past, but to me, this is nothing like Snowpiercer. On paper, a lot of people will make comparisons that this is like "Snowpiercer inside a building" but that's such a lazy comparison. First off, High-Rise does not seek a greater purpose like SP. It's a perverse, voyeuristic look at a microcosmic world that devalues order. The chaos never breaks outside its confines, like how SP ended up. The characters relish in anarchy. The characters in SP fight for change. High-Rise is satirical in its premise, whereas Snowpiercer is a straight forward dystopian.
"The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience." - TH -
RolandDeschain1990 — 9 years ago(May 12, 2016 05:55 PM)
There's definitely a connection. Since the novel of High Rise was released decades before Snowpiercer, I'm sure the writer of Snowpiercer had that book in his mind. With the movies, it's the case of the inspired somehow coming ahead of the inspiration. Similar to how John Carter of Mars was stripped mined by seemingly every sci fi movie ever, leaving the movie feeling really trite and cliched.
And this feels to me like if David Cronenberg in the early 90s made Snowpiercer.
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paula-gein — 9 years ago(May 13, 2016 08:31 PM)
And this feels to me like if David Cronenberg in the early 90s made Snowpiercer.
Which is funny because David Cronenberg (who, I'm sure you know, has always cited Ballard as an inspiration and adapted his novel Crash) released Shivers the same year that High Rise was published and there are definitely parallels between the two.
It rubs the butter on it's skin, y'all. -
RolandDeschain1990 — 9 years ago(May 14, 2016 07:46 AM)
Yeah, theres definitely alot of snake eating its own tail going on with this.
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Holiday_Hobo — 9 years ago(May 17, 2016 01:06 AM)
The thing is that Snowpiercer was intelligent, funny, entertaining, and entirely coherent. High-Rise was none of those things. Well actually not entirely true. High-Rise was entertaining. Just not intelligent, funny or coherent.