There is no denying that "The Platform" is a smart concept. Most of the movie is set in "The Hole," a futuristic or Camus-like building. It is a prison with hundreds of floors where inmates are housed two at a time. The sole opportunity for nourishment for the entire day is when a platform drops through a sizable hole in the middle of the structure every day. The inmates have access to a feast of beautifully prepared foods on level 1. Each prisoner would have enough food if everyone consumed only a modest portion of the ration. But they never do.
The protagonist of the movie, Goreng (Ivan Massagué), who entered the prison on his own volition to stop smoking and read a book, is the one who gives us a glimpse inside this nightmare. Goreng had no idea what he was getting himself into. As the movie begins on level 48, his first cellmate describes The Hole to Goreng. Usually there are some leftovers on the platform by then. The fact that inmates switch floors every month, however, is undoubtedly the system's most wicked feature and the film's most insightful social critique. Therefore, you might feel rather content on 8 one day and then content on 133 the next. You might not be prepared for the gory places this film goes if you're wondering how these folks survive while they're on the lower floors.
Given its restricted setting, the movie has several surprising twists, and each one changes how society is supposed to be reflected in the film. I found it especially fascinating how the shifting floors affected those who had previously been on lower levels but were now fortunate enough to be on higher levels. They appear to grab even more, making up for lost time and conscious that they would never again reach this level of success, rather than showing compassion for those who are in a position they were recently in.
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This movie for me just simply represents the entire world through levels, you can easily find those levels if you look around in real life. The people living in those levels and what happens when they go up or down on those levels. It explore those simple sentences said by our ancestors which we known but never follow like "There is enough for everyone's need but not for everyone's greed".
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This movie is a perfect parable for current times, it argues that there is more than enough money, food and resources to go around, but overconsumption inevitably leads to inequality and the wealthy are not inclined to share.
One of the ideas is to reuse resources giving that food away to those who need it.
Reusing resources can help to reduce waste as well as can increase the supply of necessities to a large number of people but what if that idea was taken to an extreme?
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I believe this to be Bong's best work, much better than his equally satirical Oscar-winning film Parasite. The Platform is a passionate declaration of environmentalism as well as a critique of socioeconomic inequality. The unseen Administration that put them there made the terrible but arbitrary choice to restrict the resources available to the prisoners, yet if everyone consumed reasonably, there would be plenty for everyone. The greed of one individual, however, corrupts the entire nation in a cascade of perceived tragedy. Why are the prisoners in the lower levels turning against one another? They blame someone for their situation. The environment they were born into. Who put them there—the government? There are many questions there, and The Platform doesn't even…