Written by: Yunil Ghimire - 24016, Grade XI
Posted on: 06 July, 2022
“The Platform” is a social science fiction thriller, horror movie. It is a Spanish movie directed by Galder Gaztel-Urrutia. This is a movie where the characters are reassigned to different floors after 30 days. People staying at 18th floor will be moved down to floor 87 after 30 days.
The people who are put inside the building will be fed by a platform that is filled with food on the top floor and the platform will descend to the lower level/ floors of the building. The platform filled with food will stop for a certain amount of time on each floor for the people to eat the food. After they have eaten the food the people won’t be getting any other food until the next day.
The people who are at the bottom level started to get in conflict because the people on the top floor of the building can eat a lot of food but the people below the floors have to eat the leftovers from the ones who are above them. Due to this reason, most of the foods were already finished when it reached level 80 and the people below them only have bones, peels, etc to eat. The people who are below level 150 couldn’t even see the foods on the platform because the foods were already eaten by the people above them. The people who are on the lower level have to suffer a lot to get food. We can also see Cannibalism in this movie. People from the lower floor had to kill their roommates to calm their hunger whereas people from the top floor could eat the food as much as they liked and leftovers would be served to the people below them.
The above-mentioned things can be seen as the basic plot of the movie and now I would like to present my thoughts on the movie. While watching this movie I got to know that there was enough food for all the people to eat from the first floor to the bottom floor but the people were so selfish that they would eat as much as they wanted and would try to leave less food for the people below them. Also, most people have the intention of killing their roommates to consume as much food as they can by themselves. We can see animal nature of humans in this movie just like cannibalism. We saw that a person can do inhuman things to fulfill their hunger. They will betray the relationship they build with their roommates within those 30 days. And also saw the selfish behavior of the humans who are on the top floors trying to consume as much food as they can so that the people below them can starve.
Even though some of the people tried to save food so that the people below them could eat their portion, the people who wanted to consume a lot were in large numbers. So the people who were on the low floors had to suffer while the people from the top floors were having fun. This movie can be related to wildlife where weak animals get killed and stronger get to live, similarly in this movie where we saw strong people kill weak to eat their flesh in order to survive.
