Recently, The Platform is among the most popular films of Netflix. The Platform had its world premiere at Toronto Film Festival in autumn 2019. The Spanish film is directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. The director’s first feature film, the Platform or it’s original name El Hoyo, is similar to the Cube movie series of the 90s (if anyone does not watch it, they must watch it). However, according to Cube, the Platform is much more philosophical and full of metaphors… A movie in the case where it is proof of how true the word “man is hell of man.” is true.

We have seen how successful and impressive Spanish cinema was with examples such as Cell 211 (Celda 211), Noviembre, La Habitacion De Farmat (Kapan), El Habitante Incierto (Intruder). The Platform (El Hoyo) did not mislead us in this regard. “What is the subject of The Platform movie?”, ” Should I watch the platform?” Let’s start…

Subject of Netflix The Platform Movie

The film takes place in a vertically constructed prison where two prisoners are left on each floor. The platform, which is placed in the space in the middle of this building, is filled with every kind of food, from dessert to salty, from fruit to soup, and lowered from the top floor to the bottom floor. The food on the platform, which stands on each floor for a short time, is almost plundered by the prisoners as they descend to the lower floors.

The platform, which is located in the middle of the hole defined as the Vertical Self Management Center, goes down from the zero point, that’s the top floor, this ensures that the top floor and upper floors have a real feast.  The top-floor people enjoy all the good food, the middle-level people eat the leftovers of the upper ones, while the lower-floor ones are condemned to starve to death. Although the platform is equipped with enough food for everyone at least in a 200-story prison, prisoners are having a hard time because the upstairs are brutally attacking and never thought about the bottom. And we are watching all this through the eyes of someone new into this ugly system, so it is very easy for us to put ourselves in its place.

Each of the prisoners whose floors are changed by sleeping with a kind of gas every month is eager to come up to the upper floors. Prisoners are given the right to choose an item during their time in prison. Our main character, Goreng (Ivan Massague), chooses Cervantes’ novel Don Quixote. While others are buying items such as knives and cutting tools, we are confronted with a naive character who reads books every evening and struggling against injustices in this prison and quickly match ourselves with him. As the director moves the audience between the floors, we witnesses many brutalities. This includes those who eat the floor mate with their urge to survive or kill them by throwing them down the platform gap.

The Platform movie appears as a system criticism. You can see many criticisms from the very first minutes, from the nature of human beings, to socio-economic differences, to the struggle of the upper ones (the rich) and the lower ones (the poor).

Should I Watch Netflix The Platform Movie?

We are exploring beautiful movies on Netflix these days when the world is under quarantine due to coronavirus. The Platform is one of them… With its unknown number of floors, it resembles the Cube movie series, the Saw series and the Snowpiercer movie with a single place and tense waiting, and Das Experiment with the fact that some of the prisoners are truly prisoners and some of them are volunteers. If you watched and liked these movies and you like science-fiction, horror-thriller, we recommend you to watch The Platform.

The movie, which clearly describes the world order in one and a half hours and reveals that the worst thing that can happen to a person is that it starts greatly, and the loop is processed by making the audience curious. but unfortunately the end doesn’t connect well. By the way, we need to make a warning! If you think that a claustrophobic, dark and moody movie will not be good for your psychology during the pandemic period, please stay away.

This movie, which clearly describes the world order and reveals that the worst thing that can happen to a person is that it starts great. The subject is processed from a loop by loop, making the audience curious. but unfortunately the end doesn’t connect well.

By the way, we need to make a warning! If you think that a claustrophobic, dark and moody movie will not be good for your psychology during the pandemic period, please stay away.

What was the End of The Platform Movie?

Was it so hard to finish such a beautiful movie impressively? I do not think so. The reason for this may be the Zeigarnik Effect. In other words, a psychological approach that offers that incomplete ones are easier and clearer to remember than incomplete ones.

*These include SPOILER about the end of the movie.*

Another meaning of the end of The Platform is that the child represents the “HOPE” that Goreng has been looking for from the very beginning and believed to be in the Hole. Pandora is a woman figure created as a problem for people, causing evil to spread throughout the world. Feelings such as regret, lies, anguish, anger and grief spread through the box, which she opened out of her curiosity, and Pandora closes the box at the last moment and “hope” stays inside. In The Platform, the child is on the 333th floor, that is, at the bottom of the prison. Those people also nurture hope…

*These include SPOILER about the end of the movie.*

Why is Goreng Reading the Book of Don Quixote?

Who brings the Don Quixote story instead of bringing a cutting and piercing tool with him while coming to such a Hole? If this question got into your mind, you first need to know the story of Don Quixote. The subject of the book of Cervantes’ famous Don Quixote is Don Quixote, who pursues dreams that cannot be realized to present his victory to the woman he loves, but is always defeated. He takes Sanço Poncho with him and, like the knights, pulls his armor and falls on the path from adventure to adventure. In this movie, Goreng, just like Don Quixote, will take Sanço Poncho with him and embark on an adventure. That person is of course Spice (Emilio Buale).