When the theaters closed and watching movies from home became the only option I made my list of movies and shows to catch up on. I’ve whittled away at it but it comes down to what kind of moving I am feeling at that time. Aside from the catch-up titles and rewatched movies I began to gravitate toward documentaries and now foreign films. Not intentionally, it’s just worked out that way.

The latest is another Netflix entry, The Platform, a Spanish horror film. The premise is that it is a prison-type building where the inhabitants live 2 per floor and each day a veritable feast is prepared and beginning with the top floor, they have a chance to eat their fill before the platform drops to the next floor and the next and so on. (I told you it was weird.) Each month the prisoners are shifted to a different floor, some up, some down, depending on some unknown circumstances. Reviews of the movie seem to focus on a capitalism vs. socialism class system which it doesn’t sound like the film-makers have verified at all. Either the reviewers or myself have zero concept of what true capitalism and real socialism really are because this movie is all about greed and selfishness which is not inherently capitalistic, nor is the prison system the best representation for socialism. When reviewers start pushing their own agenda, they lose all credibility with me. Let me decide on my own what the movie means, don’t tell me what I’m supposed to think.

What I think is that a lot of people are selfish and think only about themselves. This is well illustrated in The Platform. It’s gross and depressing and graphically gory with truly horrible characters. I like a good horror movie and I’m thinking there was one in there somewhere but something was off the mark. It was good but the outside reviews are what are most disgusting!