Comments on: Netflix Movie The Platform Dissected and Explained

By: Mohammad Taheri

Mohammad Taheri — Fri, 11 Jun 2021 19:39:43 +0000

I think The Platform represents earth, level 0 is god, and 333 (666 people) is evil. Like Humans that are not able to choose their place of birth, prisoners not able to select their levels. prisoners acts with regard to levels they wake up from. those who starving, killing and eat each other to stay alive, and those who are on top levels do not care about prisoners in bottom levels. those who also killed themselves, they wen down to evil. as prisoners level change each month and they wake up another levels, they act the way their levels are, those who are in top ignore prisoners in bottom an lower levels kill each other to stay alive. expect the Baharat ( believes in god) and Goreng (thoughtful). Goreng shows humans have authority. he select to eat his book papers instead of kill and eat to stay alive in bottom levels. These two tries to sending god a massage at the end.

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 22:33:43 +0000

I really loved this movie and your take, but I’m curious how your theories fit with the character of Imoguiri. She seems relatively selfless to me. She volunteered to try to help the people trapped in the pit; continued splitting the rations despite the lower level mocking her; alternated feeding herself and her dog to avoid taking from anyone else; and (probably) killed herself in the cell rather than by jumping to leave Goreng with her body. Without her, I don’t think Goreng would have ever made the choices he did on Level 6 – it almost felt like Imoguiri was the messiah and Goreng was her disciple. Would love to know what you thought about her character!

By: Taylor Holmes

Taylor Holmes — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 04:22:47 +0000

In reply to Mir. ‘Our daily self revolutions’... could have used a revolution today! Damn.

By: Mir

Mir — Sat, 28 Mar 2020 11:26:16 +0000

*Slow clap* You always blow my mind with the explanations. I was watching this movie and just thought I want to read Taylor’s thoughts about this piece of work. Piece of art for me, really, although it’s a dark, dark movie and not for everyone that’s for sure. Thank you! I knew you would appreciate it! Completely agree. It’s not about food. It’s about so, so much more than that. Killed my heart with that line, ‘We need to send a message above even if we know it won’t work’. Too much to think about our daily self revolutions. But the message always has to be sent, hasn’t it?
Best!
Mir

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 15:11:52 +0000

I think he cracked as soon as he ate his first cell mate. Reality was likely too much to bear. Remember he thought this was some kind of rehab to quit smoking and get an accredited degree and boy, was he wrong!

By: deKev

deKev — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 15:54:42 +0000

Is it possible the little girl is real after all, rather than just a figment of Goreng’s imagination? I say this because Baharat was able to see the girl too. Or is that because Baharat was already a figment of Goreng’s imagination by that point? But if we follow this line of thought, how far back along can we assume Goreng has already cracked and things we see on screen were already entirely his hallucinations? It probably doesn’t matter anyway, because to me, the girl is largely symbolic. Depending on what one takes from the movie, the ending with her riding up the platform can be representative of ‘transcendence’, ‘rescuing the princess and beating the game’, ‘sending a message’, ’tilting at windmills’, ‘perpetuating the cycle’, etc.

I find the mother, Miharu, equally, if not more, interesting. To me, she serves as a barely controllable outlying force, introduced to the system by the Administration, whether by design or by accident. While she is wont to throw a spanner or two to the works, she also has the potential to initiate change to what is more or less an inertia, as things stand in The Hole. Again, following this line of thought further, she can even be seen as the harbinger, someone who has the potential to herald a saviour. She does this simply by sowing the idea of a hidden child, or perhaps more correctly, by cultivating a conviction in others that there exists a far nobler selfless cause than one own’s mere survival in The Hole.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:38:54 +0000

I also wondered if he just cracked by the end and had some kind of dying delusions since he was already speaking to his dead previous cell mates. Especially since it was made known the woman had no daughter. I think the ending was great being left up to interpretation like that but I’d love to know what the writer intended there.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:34:17 +0000

Btw, I did watch The Lighthouse last night but haven’t read Taylor’s take on it so I’m going over there next!

By: Lisa

Lisa — Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:32:09 +0000

I felt the same. I was so excited to comment and found that I’d just be repeating things already said. I agree this film is better than Monos and I wasn’t a huge fan of OUATIA. Someone below mentioned the obsession of the head chef which I found interesting as well because usually in a prison setting no one would care so much about presentation. This movie for a closed box movie is a lot to unpack and I’m still thinking about what it all means 2 days later, especially in regard to the little girl since it had been said in the film that the woman had no daughter at all.