The Platform

a dystopiaN film

HOW A DYSTOPIAN FILM COULD DENOUNCE THE CURRENT SITUATION OF OUR ACTUAL SOCIAL SYSTEM,?

The platform

• The platform, 2019

• By Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia

• Spanish Horror Thriller

• About a prison composed of 333 floors/ two per floors = 666 prisoners

• Vertical system

• A food platform goes from floor to floor everyday / until reaching the lowest level

• Problematic : Which aspects of this film show that this film is actually a dystopian one?

About the film:

• No truly good evil / No holy good hero

"Hunger unleahses that madman in us . It's better to eat than be eaten" Goreng

• Hunger / Violence / Crimes (cannibalism)

"There are three types of people : those at the top, those at the bottom and those who fall" - Trimigasi

• Crual system : prisoners are unfairly distributed into the floors

• System divided into social classes : the privileged and the poorest

• However, they can't choose the social class they're born into !

1. Inequalities between different social classes

• Prison based entirely on the current political and social system = social self-criticism

• As said Imoguiri : "If everyone ate only what they needed, the food would reach the lowest levels." = no pity

Those who beat up other social classes Ex = Goreng

The poorest who fight to liveEx = Trimigasi

The privileged on the first floors

Representation of social classes through a caricature of capitalism

"some quotes showing the cruelty of the system"

-Imoguiri

" Please follow my instructions, because there are people dying beneath your feet. Do you understand me? People are dying "

- Baharat

"I'm on Level Seven, and I'm entitled to stuff my face. I nearly died last month on Level 114. Where were you then, you bastards?"

-Trimigasi

" Don't speak to the people below...because they're down below. The people above won't answer you...because they're above, obviously."

As said Goreng : "We don't know where we'll be tomorrow".

Symbol of hope in a cruel world

• Send a message to the "aristocracy" = a little girl is chosen = symbole of purity

• Child = represents future generation : power / not corrupted even if she is at the lowest level of society

• The child and her mother = immigrants = it is difficult to fit in our actual society

• Goreng = Don Quixote - tall, thin with messy brown hair and a mustache
• They want to serve their community and change society's values but both failed
• Quixotic means idealistic / impossible
• Finally, "the platform" is a dystopian film which reflects our actual society, that's why there is no end to the film
• There is no answer / no solution

Conclusion

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Don Quixote, a novel written by Miguel de CervanteOne of the most important in Spanish literature

Goreng, the protagonist of "The Platform"

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