The Platform Analysis

The Platform

Directed by: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia

Written by: David Desola, Pedro Rivero

Available on Netflix

This film is a sci-fi horror which does a strong social commentary on themes like capitalism, class divide and equality. It's also a survival film which is why even if you take out the social commentary aspect of it, it's still a watchable film. The film has a lot of violence and gory imagery, but it feels that the film deserves it especially for those who look at this world in a gloomy way. 

The film has an interesting concept, it's similar to Snowpiercer and I've read Cube as well. The Hole has a lot of levels, more than 200 and food gets passed from the top, ie from level 1 and the lower levels get to eat the leftovers from the above levels. The film is about how there's enough food but only if people at the top ate only what they needed to survive, that food could be passed to all the levels. The food gets over, I guess, by level 70-75 and from there people don't get food. There are some people in between who want to divide food equally and ask people below them to eat the serving they made for them and to make another serving for the people below them, but of course people don't listen. 

This film is a good thriller/horror film as well, it has some good turns in the story and the ending is also quite interesting. The color of the film suits the tonality of the film. It'd have been more interesting probably if the levels had different kind of interiors as well, that's probably too much to expect if they didn't have that sort of budgets for the production design but I was looking forward to some gorgeous interiors in single digit levels which contrast to the gore happening downstairs which makes it even more sad. It feels like every turn is a life and you just keep praying that you're born rich in the next life, everytime you die is what was happening.

There was also an interesting view on how people at the top don't have much to loom forward to, they only have to think and that talks about existentialism.