Everybody but miraculously those two people. With the train breaking apart and falling into a chasm and getting buried under an avalanche. Expensively.
I thought that for the film's ending to work, you have to assume that Yona and Timmy are not the only survivors, just the first two of a very small number and the most important structurally, thematically. The train is referred to, early on, as an ark; her name means dove in Hebrew. She witnesses the sign of the world's survival, which is a polar bear implying a healthy (if specialized) ecosystem, as opposed to an olive branch on a mountaintop. If she and Timmy are going to freeze to death or starve within a few days, the film appears to repudiate its own mythology. A terrible, self-consuming, socially problematic ark, but all the same.
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Date: 2014-08-09 03:12 am (UTC)I thought that for the film's ending to work, you have to assume that Yona and Timmy are not the only survivors, just the first two of a very small number and the most important structurally, thematically. The train is referred to, early on, as an ark; her name means dove in Hebrew. She witnesses the sign of the world's survival, which is a polar bear implying a healthy (if specialized) ecosystem, as opposed to an olive branch on a mountaintop. If she and Timmy are going to freeze to death or starve within a few days, the film appears to repudiate its own mythology. A terrible, self-consuming, socially problematic ark, but all the same.