It created a sensation at TIFF (Toronto International Film Festival) in 2019, and its release on Netflix in March 2020, under complete lockdown, caused a stir. Not recommended for people under the age of 18, this dystopian thriller shocked subscribers and became a huge success.
This film is the platform of Galder Gaztelu-Urutia. Becoming Netflix’s most popular Spanish feature film in history, this thriller set between Cube and Snowpiercer quickly won over subscribers with its thought-provoking story.
Let us remind you that La Platform immerses us in a dark prison tower called “La Fosse”, which is crossed in its center by slabs that carry special dishes prepared by cooks and descend from floor to floor to feed the prisoners.
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This unfair system favors the former and starves the latter. Each prisoner is allowed to take an item for detention and has two minutes to eat what he can on the platform, but cannot keep in the cell food that he shares with another prisoner.
We then follow the story of Goreng (Ivan Massague), who voluntarily joins the castle tower to climb the social ladder. For months, Goreng will try to survive in the pit, where the only law that dominates is “eat or be eaten” in front of cannibalistic, violent, deviant and depraved prisoners, until he sets up a crazy result that raises many questions. subscribers.
If we shared a thought at the release of the film, Netflix published an explanatory video at the end of the platform a few weeks later, especially with comments from the director and different interpretations of the final result.
Three years later, Netflix announced that a sequel to The Platform was in production! The American giant shared the information on Twitter with exclusive images of this sequel, which will still be directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urutia.
According to the visuals released by Netflix, the cast includes Milena Smith, who also stars in Netflix’s Tin & Tina, and Hovic Keuchkerian, previously seen in The Night Manager. At this time, details about the synopsis have not been released. The release date is not yet known.
The movie Platform is available on Netflix.
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