“If everyone ate only what they needed, the food would reach the lowest level.”
Class warfare erupts in director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia‘s The Platform, which was acquired by Netflix last year and will be hitting the streaming service on March 20th, 2020.
“The Platform is a twisted social allegory about mankind at its darkest and hungriest,” Netflix’s description reads, and the official trailer indeed backs up that particular promise.
The film is set inside a vertical prison system, where inmates are assigned to a level and forced to ration food from a platform that moves between the floors. Inmates on high floors eat better than those below, and one man tries to effect change so everyone gets enough.
Rafael reviewed The Platform for us at TIFF last year, raving in his 4.5 star write-up: “This is a funny, heartfelt, at times disgusting, yet also thought-provoking sci-fi thriller.”
Check out the official trailer below.