This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, July 11th, 2014.

I'm Caleb Brown.

The recent film Snow Piercer is a revolutionary tale of wealth and poverty on a moving train

after the apocalypse.

But the dividing line in the film, according to Cato's John Samples, isn't so much class

divisions.

It's the state versus the oppressed. We spoke about the film

this week. What is the libertarian pitch for this movie?

This is a film about the state and what the state's really

out like and it's actually a film for I think in the end probably in defense of

anarchism and or at least pointing that way is the way out.

So what is the basic premise?

It's, uh, so there's global warming and in response to global warming, a chemical or is put into the atmosphere that has catastrophic

effects.

The global temperature drops to the point that it's snowing all the time and everything is frozen.

And all of, it's said at the beginning that all of life becomes extinct except for a bunch of humans who get on this

train and basically ride around on the train for several years after the catastrophic event.

The movie takes place about 20 years after the catastrophic event.

Now, there's a bunch of interesting things about this.

I mean, the film looks like it's not going to be particularly

Libertarian in the sense that you know the train has up in front all the wealthy well-to-do people who are living great and then in the back is a bunch of

people who are oppressed and don't have anything and so on so it looks like you

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