Spanish dystopian sci-fi horror/thriller movie The Platform has remained one of the vital fashionable motion pictures on Netflix within the week since its debut, and with it being a non-English language allegory denouncing capitalist greed with a extremely symbolic and head-scratcher of an ending, that’s fairly an achievement.
The movie is about solely throughout the partitions of a vertical jail with scores and scores of ranges linked by an endless shaft. As soon as a day a platform laden with meals is lowered, stopping briefly at every degree to permit its pair of prisoners to eat earlier than it strikes on. There may be ostensibly sufficient if everybody solely consumes what they want, however these greater up gorge themselves, condemning these decrease all the way down to hunger and cannibalism.
The setup acts as a metaphor for society, the place individuals on the prime can take as a lot as they need and be unaffected, whereas these beneath them need to make do with no matter scraps these above deign to go away for them. Like a Kafkaesque interpretation of a Samuel Beckett play, the metaphor is about as delicate as South Park, however makes its level effectively.
Every month prisoners are relocated to a brand new degree seemingly at random, and after a while the primary character Goreng finds himself on the lofty place of degree 6. He and his present companion resolve to journey the platform all the way down to the very backside to protect the meals and guarantee everybody will get one thing to eat, whereas additionally preserving a panna cotta to ship again up as a message that the prisoners reject the system into which they’ve been positioned.
Far down within the pit they uncover a small little one, the beforehand believed imaginary daughter of a serial killing madwoman who repeatedly descends on the platform seeking her. As a substitute of returning the dessert to the highest, Goreng sends up the kid for example that folks with nothing can nonetheless defend each other as an alternative of taking all that the others have.
He then stays behind, as despite the fact that he started as an inherently good individual, he turned corrupted by the evil of the system and might not return from being an energetic participant in its injustices. The little one, in the meantime, stays pure and harmless, and in being elevated by the struggling of the older technology, is afforded the potential to vary issues as an alternative of being anticipated to pay for his or her errors.
The Platform is paying homage to different excessive idea but merely executed movies comparable to Dice, Circle or Examination, and a film acceptable for our unsure occasions the place the stark inequality by which we exist is extra obvious than ever, but additionally a much-needed reminder that nevertheless bleak a scenario may really feel, there’s at all times a glimmer of hope.
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