Yesterday I saw a small from the accident a Spanish movie directed by Galder Gaztel-Urrutia entitled “Platforma”. The movie is not fresh due to the fact that it went to cinema as early as 2019, but to me it was completely unknown. This is not a prominent or subtle cinema, but the film's motive itself is crucial and notable. Filled with symbolism, comparisons and visions, I believe, is an image criticizing capitalism and Darwinian imagination of life.
The concrete plate with food slides down in a multi-level prison. In prison, any are punished, others by choice, others by accident. The ones on the mountain feed on the finest dishes, the another remains disgusting remains, the ones on the bottom of empty dishes. However, the arrangement changes from time to time, and those in advance frequently land at the bottom or vice versa. The movie shows how circumstances and the desire to last dehumanize. It besides shows what social inequality is about and how easy it can be minimized by a more collectivistic approach or how individual wills Christian or human.
The food on the rig is adequate for everyone. A condition would be community thinking. Unfortunately, the ones on the top who got there by accident, not by merit, despise the ones on the bottom. erstwhile they get here, they think they deserve more due to the fact that they had worse. They despise even those floors below them, and at the same time envy those upstairs. They eat “elita” from the advanced floors, starve from the lower ones, die from hunger from the bottom ones. It gives birth to the most hideous pathologies. They don't truly know how many floors there are. erstwhile the situation seems hopeless, many are even worse. In fact, they're all unfortunates in the same prison. And they depend on those who give them this food. We don't really know who's in charge, and for what purpose.
Our hero Goreng first states the apparent – just deal with another floors and the hunger problem disappears. Justice and community will solve the problem. He is recognized by an old roommate who has already accepted this system: “Those upstairs do not talk to us due to the fact that they are above us.” The movie besides shows the madness of illusory prosperity. Those who hit the top floors can't hold up mentally. And theoretically, they're fortunate with the lower ones. This is what we know from the reality and information that transmits to us. all now and then, a “happy star” ends his life with suicide.
The main character – a bit like Ernesto “Che” Guevare – has moral opposition and interior opposition to this injustice. He's suffocating, he wants a revolution and he wants to overthrow an unfair system. He doesn't want to kill or live at the expense of individual else. However, the strategy is precise and forces it with voice and panic to accept reality. Circumstances force him to first kill.
He kills in the name of right and justice. He kills many who don't want to realize the thought of justice. Thus good becomes evil. He, in his opposition to the system, entered the Adversary's game.
333 floors, 666 prisoners. Beast. At the bottom of the baby – a girl. Innocent, not mutilated, not peculiarly hungry. Goreng reaches the bottom and saves lives. He wins the good. He wins the interior good. Humanistic triumph of good over evil. The Christian winner of death and Satan. Justice, community and compassion win over inhuman capitalism and the system's violence.
Łukasz Jastrzębski
