Has anyone watched "The Platform" on Netflix?

[TheNinja]

I won't give any spoilers but it's pretty nuts! The premise is that the prisoners are put 2 people per "level". The level is a cement level with a big hole in the middle. Once a day a huge platform comes down with food on it. The platform starts at the top level and keeps going down to the bottom. The higher level people eat as much as whatever they want in the alloted time that the platform stays at their level. As the platform goes lower they get the leftovers IF there is any left.

I give it a solid 7.5

 

[The Kymatrix]

 

[frye666]

I will say this. If they went strictly horror movie and used basically the same script, it would be cool. But all the ideology takes a lot away from the movie.

 

[SamSchmidt]

Yeah I thought it was pretty cool had a Cubesque vibe to it. But it was pretty heavy handed with the weird ideological slant like the other guy said.

Edit: Obviously

 

[Simple Southerner]

It's been on my list a few Days I'll blaze and watch soon .

 

[IloveTHIS]

might turn it on.......been pondering it the last few days

 

[Fzubek]

I thoroughly enjoyed the movie despite the "beat you over the head" approach go ideology.

Whats funny is socialism is exactly what causes starvation and despair, not capitalism.

 

[Simian Raticus]

It’s on my list.

Might watch it tonight.

 

[frye666]

And the idea about food being put on a platform and going down a level, each eating what they can, has been done before. I seen it, but am not quite sure where. When I seen this movie getting promoted by Netflix, I actually though to myself, I already seen that movie a couple years back.

 

[Drain Bamage]

I immediatly thought of Cube when I saw it listed on Netflix

Will watch it soon

 

[Drain Bamage]

And the idea about food being put on a platform and going down a level, each eating what they can, has been done before. I seen it, but am not quite sure where. When I seen this movie getting promoted by Netflix, I actually though to myself, I already seen that movie a couple years back.

I generally cant get into movies that are so intent on trying to push symbolism that they forget about creating a scenario that is actually realistic and relateable

 

[Cole train]

About 7/10

Good film and watchable

 

[IloveTHIS]

I just finished it, can someone please explain to me how

Spoiler

the girl is the message?

 

[cmw43]

I just finished it, can someone please explain to me how

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the girl is the message?

Yeah I didn't really get the ending. Enjoyed it though.

 

[Congo66]

Ok the film doesn't really interest me but if it was called 'El hoyo' then shouldn't it be 'The Hole' and not 'The Platform'?
Changing the name of foreign language films/tv shows annoys me.

 

[Oeshon]

I will say this. If they went strictly horror movie and used basically the same script, it would be cool. But all the ideology takes a lot away from the movie.

100% agreed. Would have been so much better if it was subtle ideologically.

 

[Woldog]

I enjoyed it.

 

[Woldog]

I just finished it, can someone please explain to me how

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the girl is the message?

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The woman he was with who hung herself said that there were no children allowed in the prison (Whatever it was) sending her back up showed that their system wasn't working, because somehow there was a child there. She was the message to them to show they had failed the people taking part. The original idea of the message was the untouched desert so that the people up the top might realise that the people down the hole are people as well and might show some heart. Basically the it boiled down to "This is meant to be a system and the system is failing everyone and the grand failure was the fact that there was a child who was knowingly moved levels when she shouldn't have even been able to be there in the first place"

 

[legatoblues]

For anyone who hasn't seen it, it's basically Cube meets Snowpiercer.

I enjoyed it but obviously there's only so much you can do with a movie like that. The very idea that makes it interesting also directly limits it.

I just finished it, can someone please explain to me how

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the girl is the message?

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The girl is the message, because there should realistically be no way she can survive. If she makes it back to the top without being attacked or eaten, that sends a strong message about the people in the hole.

I do however question if the girl is to be taken literally or not. Is she actually real? Is the main character really alive at the end? The movie is quite vague (by design...it almost doesn't have a choice but to go that way).

I take it as a film to be enjoyed but not dwelt on, as there are plenty of questions but no real answers.

 

[DustinBeaver]

Snowpiercer is a great movie about the meaning of class struggle. It's less about class and more about struggle. We humans are funny that way. We just need something to fight for/against. Ideology is just an excuse to throw down.