Atlas Fractures

In the 2013 post-apocalyptic film "Snowpiercer" - based on a French graphic novel from 1982 - a train barrels nonstop around the world, carrying the remnants of humanity through a world rendered uninhabitable by a human-caused ice age. These last people maintain order with a brutal totalitarian social structure, and the film follows one man as he leads a revolution against it. This piece makes connections between "Snowpiercer" and the rigid, grandiose, hyper-mechanized trains and mills of Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel "Atlas Shrugged," which was the subject matter of the composer's 2010 orchestral work "The Concerto of Deliverance." Visit the composer's website for more thoughts and information: 

https://andrewmcmanusmusic.com/2016/04/17/apocalypse-done-right-thoughts-on-snowpiercer/