The Dictator Leader In The Movie

The train is a metaphor of a society that we are living, dealing with class struggle and the ways that people are controlled to keep social order. The train divided by class, poor people in the back and rich in the front. Group of lower-class citizens living in filth at the poorest part of the train are determined to get to the upper part and spread the wealth around. Tired of being suppressed and trying to make a revolution.

In the most societies, citizens have classified to three categories: lower class, middle class, and upper class. The middle class people most of the time engaged with daily lives, the upper class citizens have the wealth and the power, and lower class is struggling for survival. For the middle and the upper class of people in this society, balance and stability are success keys, but how the balance and stability in such societies should be gained?

A dictatorship government or charismatic authority system

The movie had this message, despite of all struggles that the people have had, survival requires maintaining the status quo. The dictator leader wants to maintain the Status quo despite the bloody consequences.

We had Muammar Gaddafi and Saddam Hussein as both charismatic and dictator leaders, they appears to be hope on the horizon for the group of people that believe on their superhuman qualities or powers of divine origin that set them apart from ordinary mortals. Same situation has been occurred in the movie, the characters worshiped the sacred engine and they believed the engine is the source of life for them. According to Weber, charismatic leaders come from the margins of society and emerge as leaders in times of great social crisis. These leaders focus society both on the problems it faces and on the revolutionary solutions proposed by the