The Platform

The Platform

There are 3 kinds of people; the ones above, the ones below, and the ones who fall.

Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia

Produced by Basque Films, Mr. Miyagi

201995 min7.0 / 10

A bleak, intellectually rigorous allegory about systemic inequality and survival that uses a vertical prison as a crucible for examining human nature under scarcity and oppression.

A slab of food descends down a vertical facility. The residents above eat heartily, leaving those below starving and desperate. A rebellion is imminent.

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