What a stranger this world! We never think that the phrase: "This only happens in the movies" will remain after the emerging crisis of "Corona" (Covid 19). There is no longer any difference between movies and reality. What if we asked about the reactions to the movie "The Platform" 10 years ago or even a year ago, which is the winner of the audience award at the Toronto Film Festival 2019, and from the original "Netflix" productions?

The movie, if it had been released a decade or even a year ago, would be screened cinematically, specifically midnight shows, then it would be released on DVD and would create a craze among fans of this type of film.

This is what we said - the situation was 10 years or a year ago. But we are in 2020, the year the world was completely changed by the global epidemic, and the primary beneficiary of the Stay at Home campaign is the Netflix platform, which has slowed down so that all its subscribers from all over the world can enjoy the content all day, especially in this exceptional period. .

The idea of ​​the movie is undeniably smart. It takes place entirely in a building, as if from the future using a camp called the crater. The building spans hundreds of floors, and in fact it is a prison with only two prisoners on each floor.

Every day, a platform descends through a huge opening designed to penetrate all guest rooms from the middle of each room in one direction, from top to bottom. This platform carries food for prisoners who eat it once a day and for a specified period. At the first level, the prisoners receive food as soon as they leave the kitchen, and as soon as they are filled with their stomachs, the platform descends with food waste to the second level, so those remaining eat for them, so the platform moves to the third, fourth, fifth ... and so forth.

And when you reach the lower levels, there is nothing left for the prisoners. Of course, the idea that if the inmates of the first or higher levels were satisfied with their share, those below would not be hungry. Anyone who tries to keep some food for storage is punished with the fact that his room is immediately heated or severely cooled to a lethal degree.

The film is told from Göring's view (Evan Masaguey), who volunteered to go to prison to get rid of the smoking habit, and to read a book (Everyone is allowed to enter an object with him), and Göring doesn't know what awaits inside. His colleague Tremagasi (Zorion Iguilor) in the dungeon explains to him all these details in the starting scene at level 48.

The dark and smart part at the same time in the movie is a law stipulating that prisoners must change their floors every month. Whoever is happy one day on the eighth floor, for example, may feel unhappy on the 133rd floor another day. If I wonder how can those in the lower classes survive? The answer will be in the scenes of violence and blood that follow throughout the movie.

The social sermon to be highlighted in the film is clear: “If the rich leave what they do not need to the poor or the middle class, then food will be sufficiently available to all.” But the writers David Disola and Pedro Rivero, and the director Galdere Gaztelo Urrutia are not only satisfied with highlighting this sermon, but they continue to expand it or apply it in different conditions in the same prison, and each circumstance gives something new to it by changing the behavior of the characters.

This is a multi-ideas sub-film stemming from the idea of ​​the lack of justice in the distribution of wealth among classes of peoples, despite the limited place in which its events occur. As the place changes, that is, from one dungeon to the next, the idea changes partly or results. The most interesting idea is to change the life of prisoners by changing their floors, especially those on the lower floors, where their conditions change on the upper floors.

"Al-Manassa" is a film that does not hesitate to show horrific scenes stained in blood in a climate of terror, especially towards the end shots. The movie's structure brings back similar films, such as "The Cube" and the 2013 Snowpiercer of Korean Bong Joon Ho - the owner of "Parasitic" - the best international movie in the last version of the Oscars. The last two films and this film all discuss the same idea in different formats.

What makes the “platform” an effective and influential film in the right way, is that it is independent of its idea and treatment from the rest of the films, meaning that it is not recycling or a mixture of other ideas, but it is a movie with a bold, unique and distinct idea that is entrenched in the memory of those watching it. And of course, unlike the films mentioned in the previous paragraph, the "platform" remains a more realistic film than all the previous ones, due to its coincidence with the epidemic that is sweeping the world these days.

The film does not hint, does not refer, nor present an idea with inspiration, but rather says it frankly, without hesitation, and with undeniable clarity. Nobody can accuse him of exaggeration or an allegation of unreality, or with the phrase (this happens in films only).

The "platform" reflects human behavior that we see happening before us today in the news broadcasts that exposed the societies of the first world from their idealism and false human rights slogans, as they are developed countries that seize medical materials from countries that are in need of them, and if a country faces a food shortage, it will not hesitate to seize Food shipment to another country.

Yes, the platform is reality, not fiction. Whoever does not believe these words, let him watch the news. The "platform" is a reflection of what is happening in today's world. From taking people’s toilet paper to stealing food shipments to bidding one country over the price of medical shipments going to another country!

A question we would like to ask in 2020, the year of the epidemic, what is the goal of watching a scary movie while we are living in a more terrifying reality? The answer is because it is a movie that should not be ignored. In other words, "The Platform" is either the perfect movie for this period, or it is the movie that ridiculed our reality in the "Covid 19" crisis.

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It reflects human behavior that is taking place today in the news, which stripped the first world societies of their idealism.

What is the point of watching a scary movie while we live in a more terrifying reality? The answer is because it is a movie that should not be ignored.