The hole ... cruel and violent scenes in life with a vertical perspective

Muhammad Musa

The film "The Hole" (Platform) revolves around Göring who is imprisoned in a different place from the natural prisons, and even the reasons for his imprisonment are different, he is imprisoned for six months to obtain a diploma, the nature of the prison is different because it is a vertical hole whose depth is not known accurately, and the hole is divided For roles, each role is a cell with only two prisoners.

The matter does not stop there, as all prison roles, without exception, have a space in the middle that is exactly equal to a food platform that goes down vertically to stop at every role at a specific date every day.

There are several rules in this prison. Your position in the prison changes every month. If you were in the fourth round this month, you could drop your rank in the next month to the 200th floor, and so on.

You cannot keep anything from the food that lands you, you can only eat during the short period of time the platform lands, and you can bring only one thing from the outside world to be with you inside the "hole" for the duration of your prison.

Why the hole?
Although the meaning differs between "the hole" and "The Platform", the original Spanish name "El hoyo", which means "hole", is the meaning closest to translating the English name of the movie, which means "platform", and despite its realism as well, the The hole is considered the most expressive name of the film.

The film in its initial form revolves in an unknown world, it revolves in time and space, we viewers do not know at all the time of the movie or the place in which it revolves or the nature of his world, there are only simple glimpses sometimes similar to our contemporary reality.

Nevertheless, the film clearly criticizes several things in the form of its initial story, as it does not hide at all its criticism of the capitalist nature in the distribution of wealth, for the upper classes can enjoy all the pleasures, while the lower classes receive what remains of them and so on, and in the end the destitute gets nothing But they may feed on each other.

The film at the level of the initial idea did not present anything new, it is an old idea and it was dealt with cinematically in multiple ways, but at the level of handling presented the idea in a new way, it may be attractive to some, and harsh for others, but it is different.

The film carries with it extreme cruelty, sometimes appearing in direct influences on the heroes, or in very violent scenes with no puns.

Movie techniques
The film, which is shown on the Netflix platform, did not carry distinctive fingerprints except slightly, perhaps in two or three scenes at the latest, but filming was distinct, especially in the angles of photography and their uses, especially in narrow places, which require close-up scenes of actors most of the time.

The film's music was not very characteristic, nor stuck in the mind, but was rather tense especially in the harsh moments during events.

Messages
Perhaps the film carries with it other indirect messages through his story, and it is Göring's own personality who has tried to fix the corrupt vertical system. At the beginning of the communication efforts, his distinguished rank was dispensed until he reached his goal of reforming the system itself, and trying to distribute food perfectly so that everyone can eat food, an experience that proves its failure in the end.

Göring himself came to the world of the pit from the outside world with only a book and is the novel "Don Quixote", the noble knight who fought the windmills to establish justice and nobility at a time when he could no longer bear the knights.

The message that Göring wants herself changes with the length of the journey and the discovery of gaps within the system itself.

But the message itself changes with the discovery of a little girl at the last level 333, where it becomes clear that the crazy lady who was looking for her daughter was not originally crazy, and she might have landed monthly to feed her young daughter present at the last level, this change the plan of Göring and his last colleague Bharat To send the girl to level zero, in a final attempt to fix the system.

Crises and conflicts
The film may present the class struggle or the crises arising in the form of capitalist systems in a new way, but this does not necessarily mean that this approach was good.

The film carries a lot of disgusting, cruel and violent scenes, which were sometimes not in favor of the work, and many viewers would not tolerate its extreme cruelty and psychologically harmful.

The story of the film also carries messages directed in a crude way, such as the consumption crisis and its role in creating new levels of poverty, the relationship of capitalist systems and their faults in dealing with poverty, and the difference in the level of social persons from one moment to the next.

The strange and open end of the film, according to press statements by the director of the movie, was linked to level zero, but it settled on this end, which raises more questions and does not answer almost any question from what was raised during the movie, which causes a severe crisis and lack of association with the story.

The acting performance of most of the heroes was not unique, as there is no single performance that makes you associated with one of the characters, even the character of the hero Göring himself.

The film discusses the layering crisis at the same time as the screening of the Oscar-winning movie "Parasite" by Korean director Bon Joon-ho, dealing with the idea of ​​classes in a more realistic way.

In conclusion, the film was shown at the Toronto Festival of 2019, and it was met with great success at the time, and won the audience award, as it received a rating of 7 on the "AMDB" site, and 84% of the critics' evaluation on the site of rotten tomatoes, which are very high ratings that raise the shares of Watch the film, which was criticized and popular.