The Platform (Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia)

[Dukefrukem]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlfooqeZcdY

[Dukefrukem]

Surprised there wasn't a thread for this yet. My kind of premise. But all interesting premises like this don't know how to end. This doesn't break the rule. It ends horribly.

[Grouchy]

Surprised there wasn't a thread for this yet. My kind of premise. But all interesting premises like this don't know how to end. This doesn't break the rule. It ends horribly.
I have to agree. It was a good movie but it seemed to think we gave a shit about the woman's child when that was the blurriest, most confused part of the plot. But still, the overall take is positive - a lot of WTF moments and a great premise. "Obviously".

[Henry Gale]

Yeah this is a movie where the ambiguity of a "poetic" ending doesn't work because the cutaways to the above kitchen lose all mystery as to the mechanics of where things lead. Otherwise, I thought this was pretty effective and strikes that rare chord of being fun despite being so morbid and dour. I like that its allegory basically ceases to become one because of how obvious it's physically constructed and discussed, almost as if the designers of the facility in the world of the film did it entirely as a malicious joke of a social experiment.

Like I said in the Ema thread, I saw this on my final day of my busiest TIFF ever last year, so re-watching sections of this on Netflix (which I don't normally do, but I missed the first few minutes of the screening) felt like a fresh experience since the gift and the curse of seeing so much at a festival is I remember the impact the films did or didn't have on me but rarely many of the specifics.

I am impressed at just how many people seemed to have watched this since in a pre-Netflix world a distributor would've probably simply acquired it to bury it and remake it in English. So it's nice to have the very obvious reminder that people will happily watch something with subtitles if it's interesting and distributed with actual fanfare to let its existence be known.

[Lazlo]

I am impressed at just how many people seemed to have watched this since in a pre-Netflix world a distributor would've probably simply acquired it to bury it and remake it in English. So it's nice to have the very obvious reminder that people will happily watch something with subtitles if it's interesting and distributed with actual fanfare to let its existence be known.

I'm curious as to how many people actually watched it in Spanish. Netflix default played it in dubbed English for me and I had to manually switch to the Spanish audio track. I doubt most people would have bothered to do so.

[Dukefrukem]

I'm curious as to how many people actually watched it in Spanish. Netflix default played it in dubbed English for me and I had to manually switch to the Spanish audio track. I doubt most people would have bothered to do so.

Defaulted for Spanish for me.

[Lazlo]

Defaulted for Spanish for me.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Maybe I should check my settings.