Wow, what a movie. Really disgusting.
>vertical prison
>every level has 2 people
>the food platform starts at the top and every level has 2 minutes to eat whatever they want
>the ones in the lower levels have nothing left
>the ones in the higher levels piss and shit on the ones below and stand on the food
>no rules except if you keep any food you die
>you are allowed to keep one thing, even weapons
Reminds me of Cube. I wish there were more movies like this.
What movie?
Movie sounds like some gay metaphor about classism
The Platform.
>not Hollywood
>not pozzed British garbage
Well okay. I'll watch it.
The movie is apolitical. If there is any message at all, it is that moralfags are BTFO.
Also, if you're a poltard you will love this scene with the black man. It's really funny.
>A Netflix Film
Most probably is
it's shit
Not a Yas Forumstard but I have a feeling I'll like it and check it out user. Thanks.
Black guy was the most based character in the entire movie.
it is the most unsubtle commentary you can imagine. Like literally at one point a guy says "why don't we ration the food so we don't all die?" and the guy goes "what are you a fucking commie?"
The entire movie is like that.
This guy is an actual brainlet.
Anyway I stopped watching the movie half way through because the acting and dialogue was really bad, regardless of any politics. Too bad cause the premise wasn't terrible, although I find cannibalism really tedius as a plot device. It's pure gross out, no content. I've seen it a million times so why should I care.
True. PROTECT THE MESSAGE!
Name a movie that you think is good. It's always easy to talk shit and act like a cynical bitch.
You came in here and showed a lot of promise. You set yourself up with a good premise and enough mystery to keep me watching. I wanted to find out the answers as to why the platform was built. What was the administration trying to teach us? What were they teaching the administration? But during the 3rd act you fell apart. You thought you had a great message with sending the child up. But no one knows what the fuck you were getting at. It's never explained why a child was allowed and how it survived on the bottom floor. And You never explained why sending it to the top was so important and would solve everyones problems. And for that reason, I am out.
It's literally "won't someone please think about the children" mixed with current politics about sustainable use of the environment and resources and a overreaching one-world government trying to appease the needs of every single individual... it's pretty weak though if you think about it. When they throw people inside this super structure they get to decide what they'd like to take with'em and also their favourite dish - which is then prepared for them by fine dining cuisines chefs... which in theory would make sense because then every single inmate would only have to take his favourite dish from the platform, but there's no way they can put enough dishes for 666 people on that small thing. It's all so fucking stupid.
It's good that it's open ended. Whenever a movie tries to answer all questions, it ends up being shit. When there's an open end, you can find your own answers. And the answers you come up with are those you think are best.
>It's literally "won't someone please think about the children" mixed with current politics about sustainable use of the environment and resources and a overreaching one-world government trying to appease the needs of every single individual.
That's wrong. You're pulling this out of your ass. Yas Forums has been my main board since 2012 but I saw no political messaging in the movie. How crazy must your life be that you see political enemies everywhere?
>Yas Forums has been my main board since 2012
yikes imagine this still being the case despite 2014 and 2016
>How crazy must your life be that you see political enemies everywhere?
what? I haven't said anything about political enemies? what the fuck are you talking about? How crazy must your life be that you project your own insecurities onto others?
Then what is your take on it? Why was the child at the bottom and why was she able to survive? What message was sent by bring her to the top? What was the whole purpose of the have the facility?
>Yas Forums has been my main board since 2012
Do you think this gives your opinion weight?
How the fuck did the wise man survive so long?
>Yas Forums has been my main board since 2012
Why would this be a point you’d want to bring up in an argument. What a fucking dingus, you might as well drink lemon flavored bleach
Not him but we have no clue how long the protagonist was on floor six, could have been only a week. That was probably the first time the girl was on a bad floor
considering the “mom” was in there for 8 months(?) before the protagonist, this is my guess
>lady sees this girl above her, goes insane and ends up believing it’s her child or at least wants to save it
>next 7 months the child is always above the lady, odd are unlikely but since when has a movie ever cared about odds?
so the kid could have luckily pulled all high floors, or at least higher than the mom. I mean if fat fuck retarded knife man could survive for a year without I’m sure it’s possible for a girl to get constantly in the top 100
So is there even a message to the movie?
>Then what is your take on it?
I just watch it for the face value. No movie in history has ever had a message that is interesting. I think the setting is funny and there are some funny scenes. If you want to learn something, you shouldn't watch movies.
>Why was the child at the bottom and why was she able to survive?
Only option is that she was placed by someone in the administration and fed by them. Strange that the mother never went deep enough for her, especially because the lower levels are mostly empty.
>What message was sent by bring her to the top?
Messages only exist relative to the sender and receiver. We can't know what the receiver thought. The message they wanted to send at first is that what they believe is the project (according to the woman this is "fostering spontaneous sense of solidarity") has succeeded by sending left over untouched food. When they see the girl they assume she was placed there on purpose, that the pit is a riddle and "rescuing" the girl is the solution that will make it end.
>What was the whole purpose of the have the facility?
I don't see a purpose. It just exists. You could say it's a social experiment or a torturing device or a trial for rewards but its purpose doesn't matter to me. Just like the facility in the movie Cube or the Maw in Little Nightmares. In my opinion these places shouldn't make sense because their nonsensical nature is what makes them interesting.
It's literally a massive allegory to classes.
How fucking blind do you have to be.
Hinted at a few, but I don’t really believe so
>original title translates to "The Hole"
>call it The Platform
Why the change? Seems senseless to me.
How? "Classes" don't even exist, at least not anymore. And what some people call the lower class is getting all the free shit while the so called upper class has to work the hardest. This doesn't apply to the movie in any way.
Bad one. Or at least one that wrongfully assumes lower class cannot effect upper
That's it? So the ending doesn't even matter? To me it was a very unsatisfying ending and left too many unanswered questions.
it's called "borders"... states, tribalism, etc.
Jesus man, get a grip on reality.
>Reminds me of Cube
Say no more, I'll see it. Thanks.
Very heavy handed symbolism straight out of a Sociology 101 class aimed at learning impaired teens. Fascinating anyone over the age of twelve found it enlightening.
There are no borders, states or tribes within the pit.
Not an argument. How retarded do you have to be to see nonsensical allegories everywhere? I bet you are an artsfag. Only people with an arts degree think that everything must be an allegory and have sociopolitical meaning just like their literature teacher taught them.
I really hope you’re 1% because if you’re anything lower you are a cuck for thinking this
Ask your parents
Do people actually believe this?
So there’s no class different between yourself and some nigger who lives in Oakland, CA who works as a shitty DJ or whatever?
These classes are fictional constructs. There are many people who over the course of their lives could belong in all 3 of them. You are not limited by an invisible imaginary class system, only by your own stupidity and laziness.
i have nothing else to watch and i'm dying of boredom from being in quarantine, i'll watch it
i rather watch this so called shit than any star wars movie
She does at the beginning, he doesn't.
>There are no borders, states or tribes within the pit
oh boy, you really are dense one
Name calling is not an argument.
how fucking blind do you have to be to believe this is not a movie about classes? even if it doesn't follow the regular "classes rules" it is a movie about that
>even though the movie is not about regular X the movie is totally about X
You need to be at least 50 IQ to post in my thread.
I think people get that. It's that people don't understand the ending. Like, cool, it's about class. But what was the resolve?
He saved a child and got off the platform because he couldn’t live with what was left of himself
Hellraise I is good
In this movie, the upper class is whoever sends food to everyone else down the line. Its a fairly standard marxist point that the top classes always diverts attention from itself and instead tries to make the lower classes fight each other or within their own ranks.
Also, in most of the world and throughout history, the lower classes were always one bad year away from literally starving to death and fighting over scraps.
Ive been lurking pol since 2012 and ive never seen you there
Larper
Did he save the child though? How do we know they won't just be reassigned levels like we know for a fact happens? The child could wake up on a lower level in a few days or whenever their schedule takes place. And how do we know where he went? If he could just walk off and be done with it why wouldn't he go back up with the girl and tell others to ride the platform all the way down to get out of that place? If he wanted to be a good person that is what he should have done. Or are you saying he was expecting to die down there? See, that is the thing there are just too many unanswered questions.
>fighting over who has been in Yas Forums the most
my fucking god you guys suck
Sneed
So can we all agree it's a shit movie? Don't get me wrong, it started out good. But it just couldn't execute on the ending.
Like other people have said, the ending makes it difficult to be content with the film because it ends too abruptly. Maybe that's what the director was going for though, kind of fits in with the themes in the film.
Still the mechanisms of the prison itself alone is interesting to think about so I can't help being disappointed.
It made it's point when Goreng said he couldn't shit upwards. After that it drove off a cliff. The longer it went on, the less sense it made. The more questions you asked and the more it fell apart.
I looked it up afterwards to see what was being said about it online and the usual retards were all spouting on about it being a commentary on capitalism despite their placement in the system being random (to them at least) and consistently changing. The whole movie feels like they got funding on the premise without thinking about the actual story. The system is a guaranteed death penalty for anyone below a certain point unless they become amoral monsters that kill and eat whoever they can. Even then they'd get sick from eating raw meat and very likely die. What happens if one of those people survives the ordeal and is allowed to leave? They'd be a total hazard to society at that point. It's annoying because the whole set-up is intriguing and Goreng's motivations and behaviour are enough to keep you interested in his character, then it goes fucking nowhere and everything is unresolved.
They can claim it's full of messages or symbolism and other garbage like that. But it's a meaningless movie. The only thing that comes through is that having a position of power (being above someone) means you can force them to do what you want, to an extent, but you can't force those above you to change. Even then, it doesn't apply to the real world, the whole fucking film is written so that anything you could take away from it falls apart as soon as you think about it outside the context of the film. Utter rubbish.
>dude eat the rich lmao
>that moment when they realize there’s more than 200 floors and there was never enough food to go around to begin with
Well said. I agree completely. It really is too bad though. It had potential.
>Bro what if we took Human Centipede, but made it a prison that's a metaphor for class inequality?!
Room temp IQ shit.
If they wanted them to reform or consider their actions, surely they'd explain how many floors there are and that other people's lives are in their hands. Sending in people blind is a recipe for disaster. Especially if you starve some people to near death and then throw them to the top, they're gonna be too fucking hungry and sick to care what happens.
I've noticed this a lot with Netflix movies. Having only recently got onto Netflix through a family member. There are so many films that they produce that have an interesting premise but go fucking nowhere, or drag themselves out until you don't give a shit anymore. The Mule and Bird Box are two films that really stand out as having a cool idea but ultimately not having a fucking clue how to climax the story or wrap things up. Hell, Bird Box ends with her realising she shouldn't be such a cunt to her kids, but the major, driving force of the plot isn't addressed or resolved outside of, "Guess we're living with these blind fuckers now." Retarded shit. Total waste of time. I hate to quote Rick and Morty but the line about anyone being able to get a deal with Netflix is so true. These guys will greenlight anything that might be interesting for the first thirty minutes.