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According to the director (and the lady Goreng interviews with), the prison is a system designed to determine whether people will spontaneously start coordinating in an altruistic manner to ensure that everyone gets enough food, BUT the reason The Administration wants to make the determination is to prevent that kind of coordination from happening in the real world.
Oct 24, 2024 · The film’s disorienting transitions between virtual worlds and real life echo the psychological tension and otherworldly dread found in The Platform. Its intricate narrative and philosophical musings on the nature of existence make it a-provoking journey for fans of cerebral sci-fi.
The film was released in Spain on 8 November 2019 by Festival Films. [1] The Platform was released onto Netflix internationally (including Spain) on 20 March 2020. In July 2020, Netflix revealed the film had in-fact been watched by 56 million households over its first four weeks of release, among the most-ever for one of their original films.
- Parasite and/or Snowpiercer
- High-Rise
- Us
- Ready Or Not
- The Hunt
- Cube
- Battle Royale
- The Raid
Unsurprisingly, Netflix’s thriller is drawing a lot of comparison to last year’s best picture winner Parasite, thanks to shared themes about the savagery of class warfare and the self-cannibalization of the lower classes (sure, a bit more literally in The Platform), not to mention the use of literal floors to depict the high and low in society. But...
If you’re looking for a direct parallel to The Platform, you can’t do much better than High-Rise, another social-minded thriller that sorts class conflict into a literal towering building. Ben Wheatley adapts J.G. Ballard’s classic novel of the same name with the surreal 2013 dystopian thriller starring Tom Hiddleston as Dr. Robert Laing, a new res...
Another clever narrative that embraces a literal above-below depiction of haves and have-nots, Jordan Peele’s 2019 horror movie Us pits the citizens of America against a violent and anguished shadow society of doppelgångers from below. Following up his Oscar-winning, groundbreaking filmmaking debut Us, Peele once again blends his savvy wit with a T...
You don’t have to dig too deep into the news cycle to see why, but class warfare sure is on a lot of filmmaker’s minds these days. Another gem from last year that fits the bill, Ready or Not is one of the most crowd-pleasing horror-comedies in recent memory, starring Samara Weavingas an everywoman who marries into an elite old money family and disc...
Take class warfare, make it a hyper-timely, hyper-political gorefest with a bizarre yuk-it-up finish and you’ve got The Hunt. Universal’s controversial Most Dangerous Game-esque thriller stirred up quite a to-do last year when the trailer dropped and sparked outrage online as a liberal hit piece, but in truth Craig Zobel delivers a surprisingly wha...
If you were more hooked on the concept of strangers waking up in a horrific, claustrophobic experience together, set your sights on Vincenzo Natali’s 1997 sci-fi horror Cube. As promised, the film centers on a random group of people who wake up trapped in a deadly predicament – they’re trapped in cube-shaped room and have to find a way out. The onl...
This one also falls under the “people waking up in a deadly dystopian nightmare” banner. Battle Royale, Kinji Fukasaku’s 2000 adaptation of the Koushun Takami novel, is a ferociously cynical and gruesome action-horror that was throwing teenagers in the gladiator arena long before The Hunger Games. The film is set in a dystopian version of present-d...
If you were particularly won over by The Platform’s action-packed third act, Goreng and Baharat’s two-man battle to the bottom in particular, you can get a nuclear dose of that same all-out combat thrill with Gareth Evans’ 2011 action masterpiece The Raid. One of the great working on-screen martial artists, Iko Uwais stars as Rama, a SWAT officer w...
Oct 20, 2024 · Why it is a movie worth checking out if you are a fan of The Platform: Also considered a movie like The Matrix despite pre-dating it by a year, Dark City is another economically satirical sci-fi ...
Sep 27, 2024 · The Platform is a Spanish sci-fi movie that takes place in a vertical prison where prisoners on the upper levels get the most food and those on the lower levels are left to starve. The 2019 dystopian thriller was released on Netflix to worldwide acclaim. Director. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. Release Date.
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Mar 21, 2020 · The sci-fi dystopian horror premiered at TIFF last September and earned itself wide critical acclaim, winning the Midnight Madness Award. While ‘The Platform’ left quite a mark back then, the film gets a whole new meaning in today. It is impossible to deny how close to home the social allegory hits in times of the coronavirus pandemic.
