The Platform 2 (Netflix)- A Spooky Season Review
This quietly slid onto Netflix in time for October, and my initial reaction was “There was a first one?” So, I basically watched these two films back to back. They compliment each other much the same way the first two films in A Quiet Place do. The first movie is clearly the better one, as they introduce the premise, and the second film expands upon that, hoping to show you that there’s even more to be afraid of.
The platform as a franchise is just a tower system in some alternate version of reality, where the food is prepared in a beautiful meal on a big table, and lowered floor by floor. Each floor has a certain amount of time to pick and grab food, almost selfishly not thinking of what the people below them would need, but yet, every 30 days everyone changes floors. It is a no winner squid Game, because you leave when your time runs out, if you haven’t been murdered, starved, or eaten.
the film id have an initial protagonist, but the second film builds more of a community and almost a religion around certain people trying to control the tower system. It feels like a prequel and sequel, for reasons that would spoil things, but does expand more on the idea that there’s more to fear than starvation.
In one of the great moments of horror description, body parts fall down the cavernous hole, all the way to the bottom. It’s sickening, and it should be. Netflix tends to dub the films, and then add audio description, so this dub cast does a nice job that isn’t distracting. Some voice actors in this field are really terrible, but there’s some acting going on, not just mere translation. It isn’t just a localization, but rather an attempt to bring a larger audience to hopefully trigger a third Platform. While I do prefer the first film, the second is pretty shocking on its own, and very much an acquired taste.
Final Grade: B
