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The Platform

2019 1h 35m
Drama Science Fiction Thriller
MOVIEVIBE Rating
7.0/10
8,020 reviews
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The Platform

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

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

Top Billed Cast

Ivan Massagué
Ivan Massagué
Goreng
Antonia San Juan
Antonia San Juan
Imoguiri
Zorion Eguileor
Zorion Eguileor
Trimagasi
Emilio Buale
Emilio Buale
Baharat
Alexandra Masangkay
Alexandra Masangkay
Miharu
Zihara Llana
Zihara Llana
Mali
Mario Pardo
Mario Pardo
Baharat's Friend
Algis Arlauskas
Algis Arlauskas
Inmate #1

Detailed Critic & Audience Reviews

L Leno Verified TMDB Critic
2020-03-27

*don't waste your time*. Most of the movie happens in a sort of multi-floor prison where the top levels can control the food that goes to the bottom floors. This created a sort of class structure where top-levelers had pleasure on denying food to the bottom levels, although the floors were sorted periodically. The protagonist started to question this structure and tried to change it. Although starting well, the movie lost its track trying to be too much symbolic and enigmatic. The ending was very disappointing leaving too many loose ends that should have been closed....

S Shumafuk Verified TMDB Critic
2020-03-27

A violent form of demonstration of the problems of capitalist society. Despite the fact that the level of violence is too much for me, I understand purpose of it for narration. Actually I find this film quite spiritual. The parallel between Jesus and Christian values is quite obvious....

M Manuel São Bento Verified TMDB Critic
2020-03-29

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K Kamurai Verified TMDB Critic
2020-07-22

A fantastic watch, will watch again, and can recommend.

This is a survivalist movie, heavy with philosophy of morality. A lot of the time when I get to say anything close to that, I get to say, "but there is humor too", there is not: not traditional humor anyways.

This is a dark movie filled with metaphor and cruel reality. Now while I am usually offended by reality encroaching on my escapism, that is normally when I'm trying to watch dirt humor. When to take a concept like this, the relation to reality only strengthens the movie.

"Those above, and those below" is something to thin...

A Arshia Borjali Verified TMDB Critic
2020-12-26

Rate: zero

This is what happens when we build a house for a door (instead of building a house and then put doors in it); An exotic, dirty and cluttered movie. Dirty but not necessarily in the visual meaning but in the cinematic meant. The director does not know what he wants to do at all, the camera angles, the frames, the compositions and everything are completely in the air, he just knows he wants to beat capitalism but he does not know how and for this purpose, which is what He does not do well, he comes to the great art of cinema and insults it with this film. A film must first become a...