The Platform (2019)

This week, the team and I explore the dark prison world of The Platform.  In this episode, we start changing things up. We begin to focus on films that are all on streaming services. We at CINEMATIC AF want to help you find your quarantine entertainment. Thanks for listening and stay safe.

The Platform (Spanish: El hoyo, transl. The Hole) is a Spanish science fiction horror-thriller film, directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia and released in 2019. The film is set in a large, tower-style "Vertical Self-Management Center" where the inmates, who are periodically switched at random between floors, are fed by a platform, initially filled with food, that gradually descends through the levels. It is a system bound to cause conflict, as inmates at the top levels can eat as much as they can, leaving increasingly little for those below.