The site may not work properly if you don't If you do not update your browser, we suggest you visit Press J to jump to the feed. It is also revealed when he jokingly asks Goreng if he’s a communist after Goreng suggests a ration system for the platform. The only way to know someone rehabilitates/can go back out to the real world is to try what Goreng attemptedBut likely you will die in the process before you surviveThe girl could have been placed there last second (as they know what Goreng is attempting to do). Goreng is saved by the mysterious Miharu (Alexandra Masangkay) who is apparently searching for her child and travels the platform each month. Basically - the entire movie is a metaphor for classes of society. 20/03/2020 The Platform spoilers follow. Basically foreshadowing that plan wouldn't be the one that worksAnother theory I read was that there was never any girl. That's how I felt.It's for you to decide what you 'll do in the world for the next generations.I keep thinking about the tragedy of the commons. In theory everyone in jail could be fed and satisfied if the chefs really do cook everyone's favorite meal. All images property of their respective owners.© 2019 Cinemaholic Inc. All rights reserved. They managed to send pannacota back up, but all it does was a manager looked at it and found a hair (likely Goreng’s) and try to match it with the cooks’s hair. It makes it funny, in an apocalyptic way. CmonYeah I didnt understand that either. As the administration was really strict about not letting in a child, the system would break as a result. It is at this point that they realize that the girl is the message, and not the dish. 15 votes, 14 comments. He persuades Baharat to help him travel on the platform, handing out rations on every level and fighting off anyone who tries to take more than they need. The film's Messiah, Goreng. The older man introduces him to the workings of the titular platform that ascends from the pit each day bearing a feast, or rather the remains of it.The rule of the platform is that those below eat the leftovers of those above.
It also becomes interesting that he pairs up with Baharat, a black man, for the revolution. How is she gonna change anything by … Press J to jump to the feed. How is she gonna change anything by going to the top? Whether or not we’re on level 6 or 202 depends on where we were born.Trigamasi, in the film, represents capitalism. I'd say it's not that unbelievable especially if they went from 300 to 250 or something.The director admitted he filmed and removed the scene where we see her reach the top, he thought it didn't do well for the ending. There was this scene in the movie midway. The central metaphor of The Platform mirrors the capitalistic conundrum in which the modern world has entangled itself, but the ending … DIGITAL SPY, PART OF THE HEARST UK ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. The film is full of symbols, hidden messages and a lot of social commentary, so here’s a break down of the ending and what it all meant. And it is with another older black man’s help that they realize they need to send a message to those above, than convince/force the ones below. An extra-special-Abnormal. They might find themselves higher up and therefore earlier to the feast – honestly, the squelching sounds are Goreng's first level-mate is Trimagasi (a brilliant Zorion Eguileor) who has been all over in the hole, having been sentenced to a year there for inadvertently killing someone by throwing a TV out of his house.Unlike Trimagasi, Goreng volunteered to spend six months in the hole (it's not quite clear whether it's exactly a prison, but you can't leave before your time is up) and the two bond over their first month together on level 48.However, when they get down to level 171, Goreng wakes up tied to his bed and Trimagasi plans to start eating strips of Goreng's flesh, but will give him "his share". However, it being chosen randomly gives one no motivation to be good. . He also realizes that he needs more than just words if he wants things to change. Both Goreng and Baharat are fatally wounded, but manage to make it down to level 333 which appears to be the final level.They find a girl on the level who is likely Miharu's child and decide that the panna cotta isn't the message, the girl is.After Baharat dies, Goreng helps the girl onto the platform and they descend to the very bottom of the hole, before Goreng gets off. Or he will protect herEither he gets out of jail or he did this or dies with selfless dignity (indirectly influences the others above, who may try to do the same and rehabilitate)It appears they leave 6 on day 2, so I find it hard to believe 100+ people all killed themselves in the span of <48 hours.Goreng's roommate tied him up on day 1.. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. The platform finally stops for good at Level 333, the last level, where there is a child hiding under the bed. Through the structure of the Pit, the film effectively exposes the horrors of capitalism and class stratification. Even though there were people on lower floors starving to death and turning to suicide/cannibalism, fuckers still wouldn’t eat the pannacota because, well, it had a hair in it, and that’s fucking gross.