like being freaked out by eating bugs, but not babies
This was a major underlying theme of the movie. Dealing with regrets, dealing with being mistreated.
Curtis took care of Edgar especially well because he regretted killing Edgar's mother.
This revelation also keyed the viewer into another motive for Curtis' leading the rebellion--revenge. He was angry, not just over the bad food and poor living conditions, but over what he was forced to do during the first month of the train ride.
And what happens when we get angry? We often do stupid things, but sometimes we do great things too, so which is it? Which did Curtis do? Should he have just sucked it in because the rear car was his place?
Well no, the movie made it clear that he was being groomed to take over the train, continue the status quo, so to speak. So the front of the train needed the rear of the train sort of as an incubator for a leader, maybe a benevolent dictator, but to get this type of person, it had to mistreat a lot of people, and the future leader was among those mistreated.
An interesting movie, but I still maintain that the ending didnt help the movie. It was kinda like the movie ran out of budget so it had to be ended.
The avalanche served no part in the plot. Even if the avalanche was "caused" by the explosion on the door of the train, it would have happened just from the general thawing and the rumbling of the train eventually.
The movie would have been better if it had just faded to black as the wick burned up to the explosive.
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