It’s a brutal, violent existence, which Trimagasi endures with a somewhat demented smile (and his conviction that everything about it is "obvious"), but that Goreng immediately attempts to rebel against. Once someone enters, they have to stay until their time is up, being moved every 30 days to a different level. Ultimately it doesn’t really matter why the place exists, or why anyone is there. Goreng is allowed to voluntarily commit himself, spending six months in exchange for an "accredited diploma" at the end, while the older Trimagasi has been sentenced to the VSMC as punishment for a crime (which he recounts in a darkly funny story). The movie never explains the existence or purpose of the VSMC, and only makes vague references to the "administration" of the unnamed country in the unnamed time period when the story takes place. Goreng’s cellmate Trimagasi (Zorion Eguileor) explains this concept to him dismissively, writing it off as "obvious" (his favorite word) and scoffing at Goreng’s moral objections. By the time it gets below halfway, though, it’s mostly empty, the inhabitants of the upper levels having picked it clean. At the beginning, it’s covered in a massive spread of decadent dishes, prepared by an exacting culinary staff. Once a day, a giant platform descends from the top to the bottom, stopping briefly on each level for the inmates to eat. RELATED: What The Lodge Lacks in Depth, It Makes Up in Religious Terror In the middle of Goreng’s concrete cell is a massive rectangular hole, through which he can see many levels above and many levels below, each with two other occupants.
But while the bizarre setting of the movie recalls head-trip cult favorites like Cube or 2015’s Circle, it turns out that Goreng knows exactly how he got where he is: He volunteered.Īnd he mostly knows where he is, although he doesn’t know everything about the bizarre, arbitrary rules of the place, which has the bland bureaucratic designation of Vertical Self-Management Center, what people inside call "the Hole" (that’s the literal translation of the movie’s Spanish title).
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At first, it seems like The Platform is going to be one of those thrillers about a group of people who suddenly find themselves in a hostile environment with no idea what’s going on, how they got there or how to escape. When Goreng (Ivan Massagué) wakes up in a concrete cell at the beginning of the mind-bending Spanish sci-fi/horror movie The Platform, he doesn’t quite know where he is or who the man is sitting across from him.
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