The platform 2
The platform 2
There was most likely no film more successful during the pandemic as the Spanish Dystopian actor thriller “The Thick of It”. The idea of prisoners in Gattaca, brutally segregated in cells which perched like a giant slab of food and awaiting will not seem too outlandish for many who spent long stretches indoors nursing the virus. That was a welcome and almost as surprising a cathartic gift at such frugal months. To return to that ideal vision will seem somewhat a mistake. In the first thirty minutes of director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s “The Platform 2” came the same assertion that such a return would be a mistake and it is what one cannot comprehend.
Life in this world works the same mechanics. The new capital punishment inmates who all entered in for their Own reasons are Each offered what they will consume for the day and One personal item they could use for consolation or to keep them safe. They within a month, move up/down from one level to the next. The upper levels are good and have more food. The bottom levels promise deprivation of the most basic commodity. There are some additional wrinkles. When Perempuan (Milena Smit) wakes up, she does not see the large Zamiatan (Hovik Keuchkerian) alone in her cell. They are on level twenty-four. She has croquettes and he has pizza.
The older and newer inmates have made some efforts towards bringing what appears to be a fair arrangement: You are permitted to consume only the selected food. You are not allowed to touch the food eaten by the deceased. They include eating something else with the condition that they will release something else in exchange for it. That system, however, proves to be deeply flawed.
In the same manner, while some of these new plot devices attempts to extenuate the rest of the concept, it is not enough. Rather this follow-up not only feels like more of the same, but it is also weaponized the first part instead of really softened it. The entire movie is overly hard to follow. It takes way too long to figure out what Perempuan’s purpose is here. Loyalists are the implementers of the system. They are led by a fatalistic, savage Anointed One named Dagin Babi (Ken Appledorn) and they do not make any more sense than anyone else. Except for their wish to restore and maintain order, it is not clear what the reason is for such savage reinforcement of the order. There is, of course, the religious aspect – false gods, demons, messiah-characters, circles of hell, etc – but these serve as unsubtle pictures instead of actual world-building.
Hence the variation in the story leaves one wondering as to what message the film tries to impart on its audience.
Is it about how even the most fair arrangements can result in stiff crackdowns? Or should we look at this as a criticism of COVID time and again, this essay says that in puritanical isolation, people’s rights were violated?
In any case, “The Platform 2” suffers from its only responsiveness, retreating to the history and offering more of the same. Very soon, it words out a character of the first part, gets worked out already and reworks simply the premonitions and metaphors of the first part and even tries to neatly reconcile both the works by presenting a very clumsy post credit sequence. Such drawing of all the factors is appreciable, no such magic fails. Rather, more developments towards this lead character should have been made, for she is nothing but a blundering South East Asia woman – Perempuan is nothing more than a drawn out cipher – and seek for variation in the colour of the film. This is how it is or should be: The first movie was great at taking, shall we say, the two dominant qualities of a small place – natural rivalries and psychological torment. This battleship places too much stress on close-ups and begins to repeat himself in a grey-stained mass.
Transaction languages are replaced by surprises or: mess credit. So is the tacky ending or the very existence of journeys into second their installments earned. Instead, it merely exists as the mild squeezing of the last remnants of what was once a very promising concept. “The Platform 2”, most likely because it is such a movie, should have stayed for good in a locked room.
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- Genre: horror, Sci-fic, Thriller
- Country: United States
- Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
- Cast: Milena Smit, Hovik Keuchkerian, Ivan Massagué, Natalia Tena
