seronjaa-797-313124 Review of The Platform

The Platform (2019)

A suspensful horror- thriller full of symbols

[9/10 · 24 May 2020]

Why did no one step on the platform to go all the way down and maybe live in the hope to go all the way up together with the table? Even people on the lowest levels did never try to do that.

• maybe the table only goes up if there is not much weight on it- only the dishes. that could explain why our protagonist had to step away from the table, so that the little girl could go up
• people, no matter how bad they have it in life, still will think that it could be worse and they are scared of the unknown or something even worse than their level.
• people are hungry and gave up on life, so they don't even care anymore to go up (like people with depression)
• if you're on level 150 and don't get any food, you will either die of starvation, kill your roommate or just travel with the table to the next level to kill someone or get killed. but you still wouldn't want to go to the bottom. because you're scared what you might find there. that is the same case with our ego and soul. if you don't go deep, to the darkest bottom of yourself, you won't have a chance to go all the way up and enter greatness. you will just move between the levels and die somewhere inbetween. the question is if anyone even leaves the prison.

people complain about the ending being stupid. but how would you feel about a different ending?

• the protagonist and the little girl going up and getting out of prison
• them going up and getting kicked down in the pit from someone on level 0
• the administration "realizing" how messed up their prison is and releasing everyone or giving everyone their portion of food

... no matter how else it would have ended, we wouldn't be satisfied. the ending is supposed to be an open ending, because no one really understands the system, except for a few people on top. not even the cooks understand the system, not even the administration and especially not the prisoners. so why would we as viewers and as participants (and prisoners of capitalism) get a chance to see the full pictures, the outside or the mechanism? we are just pawns and are not worthy of knowing it and getting it explained for us. same as in the real world. there is also a concept of freud's id, ego and superego in this movie. the id lives in the lower leves, where people's worse comes to the surface. where they betray and kill each other in order to survive. the ego is on the upper levels, where people live in piece, but also in selfishness. they try to get as much as they can for themselves (it's the normal state of most of us most of the time in our lives) and the superego is the godly unknown level 0, where everything is perfect- the food on the table is perfectly cooked and beautifully arranged. it's our strive to perfection and completeness. you can look at this movie as being a criticism of our society, as being religious (dante's inferno or a story about jesus dying on the cross for us, where the little girl is the cross that's left), spiritual in any other way or however you want. it's thrilling and you will probably never forget it after you watched it.