Netflix’s Demented Cannibal-Prison Movie Is Actually Timely
A Spanish-language horror film called <em>The Platform</em> is resonating with American viewers as the pandemic deepens inequalities.
Netflix’s viral new thriller is set in what sounds like a stodgy WeWork facility: the “Vertical Self-Management Center.” But the people trapped inside refer to it by a more evocative title—“The Hole”—because the building is, in fact, a skyscraperlike prison with a giant void in the middle. This hole is central to ’s disturbing premise: An inmate named Goreng wakes up and learns that he is in a concrete reformatory composed of hundreds of levels. Each day, an elaborate feast is laid
