Generally, a film comes alongside that simply blows your thoughts. It’s sudden and thrilling — you’ve by no means seen something prefer it earlier than, and you may’t assist however flip into an unpaid strolling billboard, promoting it to everybody you understand. That’s me with The Platform.
Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s beautiful Spanish science fiction/horror/fantasy/thriller/you-name-it movie is a couple of dirty futuristic jail consisting of an immense vertical shaft the place the prisoners reside stacked above one another and depending on one another in grotesque methods.
It’s half cleverly conceived but nightmarish metaphor for wealth inequity, half claustrophobia drama, and half gory shock-and-awe horror film. The entire movie is a collection of shock reveals and tiny, telling discoveries — not a lot M. Night time Shyamalan “This modifications every part!” revelations as a collection of small, painful knife-in-a-wound story twists. It’s a wonderful expertise, a breathless and typically terrifyingly tense film with a profitable sense of darkish comedy on high of every part else.
That leaves me each excited for and admittedly doubtful about The Platform 2, Netflix’s upcoming sequel. How do you comply with up one thing so distinctive, stunning, bizarre, and constructed round discovery?
The primary teaser trailer for The Platform 2 simply dropped, and it goes exhausting — it’s only a full-bore barrage of surprising, hanging photos — suggesting that the film has its personal distinctive id moderately than simply being a retread.
The sequel is constructed round a brand new protagonist and a brand new scenario, but it surely returns to the identical mind-bending jail. Gaztelu-Urrutia is again within the director’s chair, and unique writers David Desola and Pedro Rivero are again as effectively, alongside one other Spanish author, Egoitz Moreno. Right here’s Netflix’s description:
As a mysterious chief imposes their rule within the Platform, a brand new resident turns into embroiled within the battle in opposition to this controversial technique to struggle the brutal feeding system. However when consuming from the improper plate turns into a dying sentence, how far would you be prepared to go to save lots of your life?
The Platform 2 is ready for launch on Netflix on October 4.
