THE PLATFORM
OUT NOW (NETFLIX) CERT R / 94 MINS
DIRECTOR Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
CAST Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan, Zorion Eguileor
PLOT Every day, a platform covered in a sumptuous feast is presented to a prison tower with innumerable floors. The inmates of each floor must eat what they like, then leave the rest for the floors below. Greed and selfishness are rife, but one new inmate hopes that he can change that, one way or another.
AN ACCIDENTALLY PERFECT parable for current times, has an ingeniously simple premise: Goreng (Iván Massagué) wakes up in a concrete room. In the centre of the floor and ceiling are large, rectangular holes, through which he can see other identical rooms stretching above and below across innumerable storeys. Each room contains two people. Goreng’s only companion is Trimagasi (Zorion Eguileor), a smirkingly cruel old man who explains what’s happening here. Every day, a platform covered in food is presented to Floor 1. Once Floor 1’s inhabitants have eaten their fill, the platform is lowered to Floor 2. They eat their fill, and the platform is lowered again, and so on and so on, down who knows how many floors. Each floor can only eat what the floor above leaves. Goreng is on Floor 48. He is nowhere near the bottom.
