The Platform (2019)
Can you survive another level?
Subgenre: Disturbing | Psychological | Sci-Fi
Underlying Element: survival | cannibalism | madness & paranoia
Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Synopsis:
This movie is about a man who entered the so-called Vertical Self-Management Center and his plan to disrupt the system upon discovering the horrors that happen within its concrete walls.
Analysis:
The Platform (2019) is such an eye-opener. It is filled with symbolism, political parallelism, metaphors, and similarities in social classes.
The movie implies that this might be a facility in the near future where the prison is vertical, has a high-tech floating platform in the middle, and can accommodate two prisoners per floor.
The main punishment is the feeding process and what level the prisoners find themselves at, since there is a monthly reshuffle. The challenge is how they can survive and come out alive. This is where blood and guts are involved. And, of course, flesh-eating.
The best part of the movie is how they were able to explain the system in the first part and how it escalated into breaking it towards the end. It is action-packed and dramatic at the same time.
Since the movie is full of deep meanings from every angle, viewers should be ready to take in every detail, dialogue, and scenario to understand what is happening. Even the items that the prisoners brought with them have meaning.
Though the ending is abrupt and there are still a lot of questions left unanswered, it's a good thing that a sequel is coming very soon.
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