History Headscratchers / ThePlatform

* What's holding up the platform? There doesn't seem to be anything below it. Electromagnets, maybe?

** Most likely because Miharu had seen how deep The Hole goes into, knows that there are not enough food for everyone, and then there's this ridiculous preachy woman who takes food to feed her dog while actively throwing people into The Hole for two and half decades.

* So... is there any in-universe explanation given for Miharu's murder of Ramses II and inmates who weren't attacking her beyond she being AxCrazy and [[ForTheEvulz for personal kicks]]?

* Working up on the above question, wouldn't survivors from the prison start filling lawsuits against the place? While the location where the Hole exists is ambiguous, it's implied to take place in a european country given that the majority of the prisoners are white (and in the original dub, the vast majority of them are spanish-speaking people, making it likely to be set in Spain itself), and there's no way in hell the average european democracy would allow a place such as the Hole to exist out in the open without protests breaking out against it. Even if the government is lying to the people about the true nature of the Hole and nobody is allowed out of it after 6 or more months, sooner or latter the families of those who volunteered would find it suspicious that the person wasn't released after the time has passed and would either investigate or outright get the police in the case.

* Working up on the above question, wouldn't survivors from the prison start filling lawsuits against the place? While the location where the Hole exists is ambiguous, it's implied to take place in a european country given that the majority of the prisoners are white (and in the original dub, the vast majority of them are spanish-speaking people)), and there's no way in hell the average european democracy would allow a place such as the Hole to exist out in the open without protests breaking out against it. Even if the government is lying to the people about the true nature of the Hole and nobody is allowed out of it after 6 or more months, sooner or latter the families of those who volunteered would find it suspicious that the person wasn't released after the time has passed and would either investigate or outright get the police in the case.

* Working up on the above question, wouldn't survivors from the prison start filling lawsuits against the place? While the location where the Hole exists is ambiguous, it's implied to take place in a european country given that the majority of the prisoners are white ([[ButNotTooWhite or appear to be white at the very least]], and there's no way in hell the average european democracy would allow a place such as the Hole to exist out in the open without protests breaking out against it. Even if the government is lying to the people about the true nature of the Hole and nobody is allowed out of it after 6 or more months, sooner or latter the families of those who volunteered would find it suspicious that the person wasn't released after the time has passed and would either investigate or outright get the police in the case.

* Would they have really let Goreng go after 6 months? If they let people out of the Hole, shouldn't those people tell the rest of the world (including Floor 0) how terrible it is in there and how misguided the management is?

* We never see a kinda-low floor, every time Goreng winds up on the lower levels it's something insane like 171. And his final journey down the platform shows that people at the extremely low levels have all killed themselves/starved to death early in the month, or are laying in bed conserving their strength for as long as they can.

** For me that’s further evidence the ending is a hallucination. We should have seen bodies on the final floor, we would have seen SOMEBODY try riding back up after 5 months if it were possible. But it’s not, which is why the message they send back to Floor 0 needs to be a piece of food.

** For me that’s further evidence the ending is a hallucination. We should have seen bodies on the final floor, we would have seen SOMEBODY try riding back up after 5 months if it were possible. But it’s not, which is why the message they send back to Floor 0 needs to be a piece of food.

** For me that’s further evidence the ending is a hallucination. We should have seen bodies on the final floor, we would have seen SOMEBODY try riding back up after 5 months if it were possible. But it’s not, which is why the messages hey send back to Floor 0 needs to be a piece of food.

** For me that’s further evidence the ending is a hallucination. We should have seen bodies on the final floor, we would have seen SOMEBODY try riding back up after 5 months if it were possible. But it’s not, which is why the message needs to be a piece of food.

* Why don't people in the lowest floor just jump on the platform like Mali at the end? seems like the first thing you'd think of, given you are pretty much guaranteed to die either way at that point.

* It seems that when people end up on a floor without food they tend to suicide - shouldn't we see more examples of them just riding the platform down to try to murder and cannibalize those below them?

** Besides, that would simply mean more food for the upper cells. The problem is that they're unwilling to share, not that they don't have enough. The mere act of denying food to the belowers generates a power rush.

** Because they don’t understand what they’re getting into.

* Why don't people just request gigantic portions as their favorite dish? It's clear from the shots we see of the kitchen that there's more than enough ingredients to fill that platform a hundred times over, and it doesn't seem like the people running the facility are the type to callously deny you a large portion if that's what you request.