" Hungry Platform " is known as "Panic" + "Snowpiercer" + "Saw", integrating suspense, thriller, secret room, darkness and other types and elements.
"Hungry Platform" is a satirical thriller movie released in 2020. The plot tells the story of the male protagonist waking up after a coma and finding himself in a secret room on the 48th floor underground. A large platform filled with food will descend every day, and leftovers will be eaten. Then send it to the people at the lower level.
But people living on the bottom floor often starve to death because there is no food, so the hero decides to jump on the platform to distribute food so that people on each floor below can have enough food to eat, but the ending does not seem to be what he expected. Simple, human nature is not so kind!
The background of the movie is an imaginary one. The story takes place in a vertical prison system. Every day, a platform carrying a luxurious feast of delicious food descends from the top of the tower. It will stay on each floor for a few minutes, so the people near the top are well fed, and the people on the lower floors are constantly fighting each other for the disgusting leftovers... In order to survive, the people on the lower floors began to try every means to slowly jump up and up. Struggle, at the same time, people from the upper class fall down from time to time...
In this environment, in order to survive, struggles and confrontations continue, and fear and despair are also spreading.
"Hungry Platform" is like a vertical version of "Snowpiercer". Both movies are dystopian movies. Both movies are based on a background of extremely uneven distribution of resources, with obvious social class systems, and Both are in a dark and confined space. The male protagonist is also the savior who jumps out to fight against the unfair system. The biggest difference is that the former's method of resistance is to move vertically, while the latter is to move horizontally.
"Hungry Platform" perfectly satirizes the biggest drawback of capitalism: the serious uneven distribution of resources. The group of people at the top of the hierarchy always have the most resources and welfare. No matter how they climb up or strive for it, they are still in vain. However, the people at the bottom of the pyramid can only kill each other or both starve to death. Their No one cares about life or death.
As for the black friend of the male protagonist Goren in the movie, he wanted to use a rope to get to the upper floor. He needed the help of someone upstairs to get there smoothly. Just like if you want to be in a position, you must have a certain relationship. , Backers and connections
At the beginning, the protagonist met a former employee of the prison who volunteered to participate in the experiment. The employee herself knew little about the prison pit. She believed that the prison had a total of 200 floors. If people on each floor only asked for the share they needed, then the food would be It was enough, but later the male protagonist discovered that the prison had at least 333 floors (the far-fetched explanation that the male protagonist had hallucinations in the end is not considered here).
Therefore, the food is not enough in any case, or it can barely guarantee the survival of all the prisoners when everyone is hungry. This greatly reduces the possibility of "spontaneous unity" among the prisoners.
It is not that no one is trying to break it. In this situation where is involved in , the male protagonist, the black man, and the Asian woman all try to break the situation in various ways, but they all seem to be unsuccessful.
The black man’s plan to climb up with a rope is not reliable, because even if everyone helps him, the prisoner does not know how high the distance is between the 1st floor and the 0th floor. For example, there is a long distance between the 333rd floor and the lowest floor. Some distance away.
The ending arrangement of "Hungry Platform" is very bold, ending in a magical and realistic way. The director did not leave a clear answer or position, but left a huge space for imagination to the audience. In the end, the protagonists' struggle is successful. What about defeat? Is the platform’s system good or bad? If you have seen it, please leave a comment!
