anyone have any movies that give similar feels to The Platform?? I've already gone through most of the obvious ones, but if anyone has suggestions I'm open. if you've ever seen Circle, I'm looking for those types.
Here's a list of movies that are kinda like "the entire movie happens in one place and the character(s) is/are trying to figure things out" and has a similar vibe to The Platform, in my opinion.
Snowpiercer
All the Cube movies
Exam
Coherence
The Invitation
10 Cloverfield Lane
Nine Dead
Devil
Fermat's Room
Infinity Chamber
Unknown
anyone remember what was that one movie where people were transported somewhere and they have to run race to stay alive or something like that? a bit battle royale type of thing from what i remember.
i don't mean the running man, it was way newer movie, perhaps around 2010 give or take few years.
don't remember if it was good but now it just annoys me that i don't remember what it was
I'm not sure. My immediate thought was no, because it fits more into a "reality is not real" category along with movies like The Matrix, Twelve Monkeys, The Jacket, existenZ, The Thirteenth Floor, Total Recall, The Adjustment Bureau, Inception, Shutter Island, etc.
>communists believe there are ample resources and poverty exists because rich people refuse to share except the movie shows the food will never be enough for everyone so the best move is to gorge like a pig
I thought the movie made it obvious that rationing the food for everyone was a option? It was the people at the tops greed that made them gorge. You lack media literacy anon.
>I thought the movie made it obvious that rationing the food for everyone was a option?
no, that was a premise initially before the movie showed you there are like 400 levels with 2 people on average so a single table had to feed 800 people i.e. literally impossible under any scenario
there's another interpretation which is the actual end scene like 3/4 through where the chef is scolding his waiter over the returned dessert (gelatin cake or whatever it was I forget). Anyway the implication being that the people at the top are just hopelessly out of touch with the needs of the prisoners (ie the poor) and the food distribution system is a result not of malice or inadequacy but of ignorance and incompetence.
In reality none of interpretations are accurate metaphors and the film relies on that so heavily it torpedoes itself. I think it's a pretty shit film overall.
Did you miss the point of the movie? They specifically say that if everyone shares and aren't being needlessly greedy, then there's more than enough for everyone.
>They specifically say that if everyone shares and aren't being needlessly greedy, then there's more than enough for everyone.
and then they disprove it when you see how many people there are
>I thought the movie made it obvious that rationing the food for everyone was a option?
no, that was a premise initially before the movie showed you there are like 400 levels with 2 people on average so a single table had to feed 800 people i.e. literally impossible under any scenario
This is purely speculative on your end though. The movie specifically states that there's enough for everyone, if everyone only eats their ordered meal.
It could be that not everyone is meant to eat once every day. Humans can easily survive if they get fed every other day, for example. So even though one table is not going to feed the 2x 334 people, it could potentially feed half one day, then the other half the next day, and repeat.
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>it could potentially feed half one day
no it absolutely couldn't even feed half. It's not easy to tell exactly how much food there is since most of the time the table you see is half empty but it looks like it could barely feed 50 people with strict rationing. And while you can go fairly long without food, you need plenty of water every day and there's basically none on the table, just some fruit and wine. So no matter the rationing 2/3 of the people there will die within days
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Anonymous
moron everyone picked a meal before the movie. There was literally one meal per person
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Anonymous
do you see 600+ meals on that table? There's like 50 at most
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right, well forget the water then. Still, the food is not even close to enough no matter the rationing
Like the main guy picked snails, there was like 6 snails or 8 max, he could not live on that for 30 days (or however long they had to be there)... but if they switched and picked a different meal each day.
It did not look like 600 meals, but if some were small and some bigger, it could have been 1 for each person, like the snails and pudding.
I mean, it`s supposed to show humans are greedy and it ensures our own demise, but if they where told the rules (one dish per person per day) you would think everyone would keep to it to survive... As people woke up getting scraps with no explanation of the rules, they gorged when they came on top... but yea.. Very good film.
9 months ago
Anonymous
>before the movie
I mean before they got locked up kek
9 months ago
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>you need plenty of water every day and there's basically none on the table
Every level has a sink for water.
9 months ago
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right, well forget the water then. Still, the food is not even close to enough no matter the rationing
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Anonymous
According to a couple of Google searches, a human can survive somewhere between 30-60 days without food as long as they are hydrated. So if there's 50 meals on the table and 668 people, everyone would be fed once per 13 days. If it's 100 meals on the table, it would be once every 6-7 days. That's not completely unthinkable. That's how some prisoners of war have survived, for example.
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even if we accept the tortured math that makes this possible and even if we pretend this severe malnutrition won't lead to a ton of deadly conditions for everyone involved, the metaphor STILL doesn't work since the conclusion is "if everyone shares then we can all have a mutual nightmarish existence in hell instead of some people eating enough and some people dying" which is far from an obvious choice
9 months ago
Anonymous
I think the problem here is that we are discussing what we literally see, instead of just viewing the whole movie as a metaphor. You aren't meant to think about how much/little food there actually is on the table, it's just meant to be a representation.
9 months ago
Anonymous
I understand that but I wish the movie did it in a smarter way, all they had to do was have fewer levels (say 50 or so) and then nothing else has to change and the metaphor is actually impactful
9 months ago
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I agree with you, but I can also understand why they wanted the whole "WOW, THE TOWER HAS SO MANY LEVELS" thing.
9 months ago
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>all they had to do was have fewer levels (say 50 or so) and then nothing else has to change and the metaphor is actually impactful
They could have also just had the platform be twice as big and going down twice per day(every 12 hours) fully stocked and it would have seemed much more realistic.
I thought the movie made it obvious that rationing the food for everyone was a option? It was the people at the tops greed that made them gorge. You lack media literacy anon.
>if everyone only eats their ordered meal. >some people only listed a desert as their favorite food >have to survive the entire cycle eating desert so that other people can live
yea sure
I kind of hate these type of questions. It doesn't really matter how it moves. I bet every time pulp fiction comes up you ask >what was in the suitcase bros?
It does not matter
I guess it's the same thing as greed but now I'm taking it as cooperation, coordination. It's pretty impossible with human beings really. The simplest shit, just doesn't happen. The dumpster at your apartment complex somehow there's trash all around it instead of in it, any area on the job with common tools, office supplies, usually looks like a disaster. Common kitchens/fridges, forget it. It's disappointing really.
Magnets
why were the plates not affected?
you eat from metal plates? who let you shitpost from jail?
he poo poo
very good anon, yes he did
God was moving the platform.
Highly concentrated metaphors
anyone have any movies that give similar feels to The Platform?? I've already gone through most of the obvious ones, but if anyone has suggestions I'm open. if you've ever seen Circle, I'm looking for those types.
Maybe The Exam or Cube?
I like The Platform most out of those four.
seen them both, thanks though
I liked Platform best out of those four too.
Here's a list of movies that are kinda like "the entire movie happens in one place and the character(s) is/are trying to figure things out" and has a similar vibe to The Platform, in my opinion.
Snowpiercer
All the Cube movies
Exam
Coherence
The Invitation
10 Cloverfield Lane
Nine Dead
Devil
Fermat's Room
Infinity Chamber
Unknown
The Invitation
Nine Dead
Devil
Infinity Chamber
Unknown (may have seen)
seen the other ones, but I"ll check out all of those, thanks anon
anyone remember what was that one movie where people were transported somewhere and they have to run race to stay alive or something like that? a bit battle royale type of thing from what i remember.
i don't mean the running man, it was way newer movie, perhaps around 2010 give or take few years.
don't remember if it was good but now it just annoys me that i don't remember what it was
maze runner ?
never mind, found it. i think it was the human race (2013). looks crappier than i remember, but it's very low budget stuff.
wasn't that, but thanks
does dark city sorta work for this category?
I'm not sure. My immediate thought was no, because it fits more into a "reality is not real" category along with movies like The Matrix, Twelve Monkeys, The Jacket, existenZ, The Thirteenth Floor, Total Recall, The Adjustment Bureau, Inception, Shutter Island, etc.
Dark City is real though to be fair. It's like Matrix, but instead of being a simulation, it's like The Truman Show studio.
>Communists literally believe resources just fall out of the sky.
Explains a lot.
>communists believe there are ample resources and poverty exists because rich people refuse to share except the movie shows the food will never be enough for everyone so the best move is to gorge like a pig
I thought the movie made it obvious that rationing the food for everyone was a option? It was the people at the tops greed that made them gorge. You lack media literacy anon.
>I thought the movie made it obvious that rationing the food for everyone was a option?
no, that was a premise initially before the movie showed you there are like 400 levels with 2 people on average so a single table had to feed 800 people i.e. literally impossible under any scenario
there's another interpretation which is the actual end scene like 3/4 through where the chef is scolding his waiter over the returned dessert (gelatin cake or whatever it was I forget). Anyway the implication being that the people at the top are just hopelessly out of touch with the needs of the prisoners (ie the poor) and the food distribution system is a result not of malice or inadequacy but of ignorance and incompetence.
In reality none of interpretations are accurate metaphors and the film relies on that so heavily it torpedoes itself. I think it's a pretty shit film overall.
Did you miss the point of the movie? They specifically say that if everyone shares and aren't being needlessly greedy, then there's more than enough for everyone.
>They specifically say that if everyone shares and aren't being needlessly greedy, then there's more than enough for everyone.
and then they disprove it when you see how many people there are
This is purely speculative on your end though. The movie specifically states that there's enough for everyone, if everyone only eats their ordered meal.
if you have eyes and rudimentary math skills you will quickly figure out that what "the movie" (actually one character) states is clearly wrong
It could be that not everyone is meant to eat once every day. Humans can easily survive if they get fed every other day, for example. So even though one table is not going to feed the 2x 334 people, it could potentially feed half one day, then the other half the next day, and repeat.
>it could potentially feed half one day
no it absolutely couldn't even feed half. It's not easy to tell exactly how much food there is since most of the time the table you see is half empty but it looks like it could barely feed 50 people with strict rationing. And while you can go fairly long without food, you need plenty of water every day and there's basically none on the table, just some fruit and wine. So no matter the rationing 2/3 of the people there will die within days
moron everyone picked a meal before the movie. There was literally one meal per person
do you see 600+ meals on that table? There's like 50 at most
Like the main guy picked snails, there was like 6 snails or 8 max, he could not live on that for 30 days (or however long they had to be there)... but if they switched and picked a different meal each day.
It did not look like 600 meals, but if some were small and some bigger, it could have been 1 for each person, like the snails and pudding.
I mean, it`s supposed to show humans are greedy and it ensures our own demise, but if they where told the rules (one dish per person per day) you would think everyone would keep to it to survive... As people woke up getting scraps with no explanation of the rules, they gorged when they came on top... but yea.. Very good film.
>before the movie
I mean before they got locked up kek
>you need plenty of water every day and there's basically none on the table
Every level has a sink for water.
right, well forget the water then. Still, the food is not even close to enough no matter the rationing
According to a couple of Google searches, a human can survive somewhere between 30-60 days without food as long as they are hydrated. So if there's 50 meals on the table and 668 people, everyone would be fed once per 13 days. If it's 100 meals on the table, it would be once every 6-7 days. That's not completely unthinkable. That's how some prisoners of war have survived, for example.
even if we accept the tortured math that makes this possible and even if we pretend this severe malnutrition won't lead to a ton of deadly conditions for everyone involved, the metaphor STILL doesn't work since the conclusion is "if everyone shares then we can all have a mutual nightmarish existence in hell instead of some people eating enough and some people dying" which is far from an obvious choice
I think the problem here is that we are discussing what we literally see, instead of just viewing the whole movie as a metaphor. You aren't meant to think about how much/little food there actually is on the table, it's just meant to be a representation.
I understand that but I wish the movie did it in a smarter way, all they had to do was have fewer levels (say 50 or so) and then nothing else has to change and the metaphor is actually impactful
I agree with you, but I can also understand why they wanted the whole "WOW, THE TOWER HAS SO MANY LEVELS" thing.
>all they had to do was have fewer levels (say 50 or so) and then nothing else has to change and the metaphor is actually impactful
They could have also just had the platform be twice as big and going down twice per day(every 12 hours) fully stocked and it would have seemed much more realistic.
that's what I thought too
but it's been so long that I can't quite remember
>if everyone only eats their ordered meal.
>some people only listed a desert as their favorite food
>have to survive the entire cycle eating desert so that other people can live
yea sure
I kind of hate these type of questions. It doesn't really matter how it moves. I bet every time pulp fiction comes up you ask
>what was in the suitcase bros?
It does not matter
I guess it's the same thing as greed but now I'm taking it as cooperation, coordination. It's pretty impossible with human beings really. The simplest shit, just doesn't happen. The dumpster at your apartment complex somehow there's trash all around it instead of in it, any area on the job with common tools, office supplies, usually looks like a disaster. Common kitchens/fridges, forget it. It's disappointing really.