Hello everyone, today I would like to spit on the TV series version of "Snow Country Train".
After the first episode was broadcast, many netizens at home and abroad believed that the drama version of "Snow Country Train" could be said to be a complete failure, but after three episodes of preparation, the strength of Netflix has begun to appear, which is not a failed adaptation series, but an original super god work.
Because whether it is the episodic version or the movie version of "Snow Country Train" and the original comic (graphic novel), it basically adopts the idea of the first author, that is, the proposer of the concept of Snow Country Train, the French writer Rob, and the plot is basically original.
First of all, the episodic version adopts the same setting as in the manga, and there are 3,000 survivors and 1,000 carriages on the Snow Country Train. It is divided into "rear", "third class carriage", "second class car" and "first class car".
And most of the survivors on this train choose to believe two facts:
At the heart of the Snow Train is a perpetual motion machine.
Mr. Wilford was the leader of the train.
However, in the episodic version of the story of "Snow Train", the screenwriter reveals the truth behind the balance of the train, Mr. Wilford probably does not exist, and the so-called perpetual motion machine is not really perpetual motion.
<h3 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the first question: What role does Melanie play? </h3>
Her apparent identity was only the supervisor on the train, the spokesman for Mr. Wilford, a higher-ranking employee, but the truth was that all the pressure was borne by Melanie alone.
Mr. Wilford may have really existed, or he may have been an illusion, but at least for now the person in charge of running the entire train was Melanie.
Why did she do this? Who made her the manager of the entire Snow Country train?
1. Mr. Wilford did not originally exist?
There are two possibilities here, the first is that Mr. Wilford does not exist, he is more like a "leader" designed by Melanie to maintain the order of the survivors, after all, she is a woman herself, it is difficult to control the emotions of the survivors in the end of the world, so she has created a "Mr. Wilford" to strengthen her authority, and this lie has been going on for six years.
Simply put, faith has power, especially when you are enclosed in a small carriage and it is extremely cold outside, and Melanie can do this to maintain the normal operation of the snow country trains, otherwise when the order completely collapses, the Ark of Doom will be subverted by people who have fallen into madness.
2. Mr. Wilford once existed, and Melanie was his successor.
The Earth's climate suddenly changed, becoming a snow-covered ice hell, and the surviving humans hid in a train driven by a perpetual motion machine, running endlessly on the frozen earth, and once stopped, everyone would be swallowed up by the cold.
This sentence was printed on the cover of the original comic of "Snow Country Train", and this is its most fascinating setting, that is, because the Snow Country Train can never stop, otherwise the cold will swallow everyone.
Like the plot of the movie "Snow Train", Mr. Wilford needs a successor, and in his plan, the rebellion at the rear of the car will bring a new balance, and the male protagonist who arrives at the front of the car will inherit his position.
So in the story of the TV series "Snow Country Train", Mr. Wilford's successor is Melanie, of course, she is not from the rear of the car, she has long become the ruler of the entire train.
<h3 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > the second question: Is the Divine Engine really a perpetual motion machine? </h3>
In fact, the engine design of the Snow Country Train is very perfect, the energy conversion efficiency is extremely high, and it can theoretically be perfectly circulated. In the original setting, the energy generated by mechanical movement is converted into the energy required for engine movement, and the overall energy loss is very small, and people only need to supplement the engine with very little energy to run for a long time.
This setting is impossible in reality, of course, this is another reason why the snow country train can not stop, because once stopped, people need to pay a huge price to restart the engine, and in temperatures of more than one hundred degrees below zero, resource-poor survivors can not resist the cold for a long time.
Whether it's a manager or a stowaway living in the back of the train, they need to believe that the engine of the snow train is a perpetual motion machine, which means that the train never stops, and they always have hope.
This is not shown in the TV series, but believers in perpetual motion machines appear in both the movies and comics, and even refer to the engine of the train as the "divine engine" because it brings warmth every day to be able to keep them alive in the cold.
So the perpetual motion machine is more like "Schrödinger's cat" in the setting, it is likely to be real, but it may also be just a scam used by the head of the train to control people's emotions, if anyone knows how bad the situation of the snow country train is, then the whole train will be completely in chaos, and when the balance in the doomsday cannot be maintained, then the only way to destroy them is to wait for them.