#kammatipaadam and #snowpiercer.
Art as a form of expression in general takes two distinct styles. One that depicts what an artist actually observes as it is and the one that expresses what the artist feels and perceives about them.

Like every art, cinema can either visualize social reality as it is or can take the metaphorical route. The end purpose being both intends to make the consumers of art to introspect themselves.

Kammatipadam and Snowpiercer are two distinct yet closely related films on systematic exploitation either by caste or class. Kammatipadam takes the realistic route and Snowpiercer turning to the metaphorical route to bring it out the nature of system that runs on exploitation

forcing the people to fight against each other while the system continues to devour the fruits of sacrifices and labour

Kammatipadam is rooted in the transition of village into sprawling urban centre, consuming blood, sweat of Dalits and their land while Snowpiercer immerses yourself in a imaginary construct of a train as a microcosmic representation of exploitative society

In both people were coerced to board the system with they belief there is no alternative outside this system and were groomed to benefit the exploiters of the system

Kammatipadam has Aasaan grooming Balan and his gang while Snowpiercer has Wilford micromanaging every bit of life in the train. Wilford and Aasan enrich themselves by making Balan and Curtis fight with their own class, destroy lands and kill their own people

As with any exploitative system Aasaan and Wilford care more about the survival of the system then about the people surviving in it.
Without any remorse both the proponents of system propogates violence to balance itself and reduce the opposition. It's either balan or Curtis

unknowingly carry out the violent plans much to cause distress asking themselves and distract them from reforming or questioning the system

As with any god art both the movies poses an existential question to viewers. Does Krishnan and Curtis's success in killing Aasaan and Wilford brought an end to the exploitation in the system they inhabit.

In both the real and imaginary system people are made to believe perpetuality of the system and the rebellion was aimed only to take control of the system or kill the one in control, without questioning neither the viability of the system nor about its restructuring. People were

made to fight within the system and not with the system.
In reality no system is permanent of not for the internal revolution there always lies an external trigger like avalanche, climate change or Covid-19 that could force stop the system and demand it to reinvent itself.

The question however lies in can we manage to rebuild the world in terms totally different from the current one that concerns about equal rights to live. Will we ever have the courage and knowledge to restructure ourselves entirely or thread down the same path to destruction

Snowpiercer being the metaphorical one puts the question of thinking ahead about the future system while kammatipadam being realistically grounded demands you to question the system that stands on the land taken from they marginalised

P.S only a celebrated savarna kashyap moron could be blind to the fact that film is about poor losing the land and see it as mere gangsters fighting.