QUICK INFO
DIRECTOR Gaztellu-Urrutia
CAST Ivan Massague, Zorion
Eguileor, Alexandra Masangkay
DISTRIBUTOR Netflix
RELEASE DATE 20 March
2020
-Nurul Assykin
D
ue to the novel coronavirus outbreak which started in Wuhan, China
in December, various sectors around the world such as business,
travel, technology, and entertainment have been disrupted.
As for entertainment, movie theaters and film productions
internationally had to shut down their operations as a means to avoid virus
infections to human life. Major release dates are also delayed or cancelled
until further notice which causes anxiety among filmmakers, producers, and
distributors as financial complications will likely be felt by them for months
or even years.
Fortunately, streaming sites still remain for the time being and
streaming sites still remain for the time being and have kept movie fans
occupied while practicing social distancing. Netflix houses hundreds and
thousands of movies and series. As of recently, The Platform by Gaztelu-
Urrutia which was made available on Netflix has gotten movie critics to start
talking.
The film is another piece of international cinema to be among the Top 10
daily stream movies on Netflix since its debut in March 2020, a comparable
piece to Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite. The interesting part is, both of these films
draw the same concepts about inequality which indirectly reflect our modern
societies today; people on the bottom levels are humiliated and bullied by
those who are comfortably living on top.
The director portrays a clear picture of an imbalance system where
top-level people have unlimited access to power and wealth while the poor
do not even have the basic survival tools with them. To them, seeing the
poor devour each other is more intriguing and whether it is worth trying to
overturn the system at all.
In The Platform, the allegory shown by the director, Gaztelu-Urrutia
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