History Film / ThePlatform

** Ramseses the Second is named after the Pharaoh believed to be the one from [[Literature/TheBible the Book of Exodus]] who was the recipient of God's message from Moses to release his captive slaves.

** One interpretation of the ending is that the final scenes [[spoiler:are in reality a hallucination of Goreng, this is hinted by a scene which shows the head chef berating the other cooks while holding the panacotta in which he found a hair on it, he then attempts to find the culprit by comparing the hairs but finds no match. This hints that Goreng and Baharat succeeded in sending the desert back to the top (and got a hair on it) but the message they interpreted was that the dish was rejected because it wasn't perfect]].

* AmbiguousEnding: The final scene of the film is [[spoiler:Goreng choosing to stay in the void beneath the 333th floor while the child goes to Floor 0 to be a message to the Administration. What happens to Goreng and the child, and whether anything changes for the better, is left unknown.]]

* NaiveNewcomer: Both Goreng and Imoguiri serve this role in the movie, with Goreng entering in the Platform to attatin a tittle, and Imoguiri entering to try and make the prison a better place. Both of them lose that innocence brutally quickly.

* WorthlessYellowRocks: One prisoner chose a giant bag of money as his item in the prison (probably expecting to keep it if he made it out) and gives it as a thankyou for bringing down food to his level. Goreng is clearly unimpressed.

* {{Allegory}}: The prison is a pretty obvious allegory for wealth and social inequality. People on the top force everyone below them to live on their scraps, and they sometimes literally shit on the people below them.

* WhamShot: During Goreng and Baharat's descent, they pass by Goreng's estimated number of floors. It turns out the Hole is comprised of [[spoiler:'''333''' floors, meaning that more than 250 people are left to starve every month. And that's just assuming they don't cannibalize to survive. Even if everyone worked together, there's no way that the daily food is enough to feed all 666 people.]]

* HellholePrison: In "the Hole", a platform of food is lowered down level-by-level, with each level granted one minute to eat. If you occupy the topmost floors, you're looking to eat fine dining, but around the fiftieth the food is reduced to scraps, and eventually nothing at all. Keeping food past the one minute will get you frozen or burned alive. So you have a very good chance of going a whole month (or even longer) starving to death. On top of the food situation, there is no regulation for the prisoner's behavior: they can murder, rape, and cannibalize each other all they want.

* WhamShot: During Goreng and Baharat's descent, they pass by Goreng's estimated number of floors. It turns out the Hole is comprised of [[spoiler:'''333''' floors, meaning that more than 250 people are left to starve every month. And that's just assuming they don't cannibalize to survive.]] Even if everyone worked together, there's no way that the daily food is enough to feed all 666 people.

* WhamShot: During Goreng and Baharat's descent, they pass by Goreng's estimated number of floors. It turns out the Hole is comprised of [[spoiler:'''333''' floors, meaning that more than 250 people are left to starve every month. And that's just assuming they don't cannibalize to survive.]]

* NaiveNewcomer: Both Goreng and Imoguiri serve this role in the movie, with Goreng entering in the Platform to attatin a tittle, and Imoguiri entering to try and make the prison a better place.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Imoguiri.]] And plenty of unfortunate people who find themselves on the wrong level.

-->'''Trimagasi:''' NOT EVEN A BONE!!!\\

* JerkassHasAPoint: People who are sent to the higher levels are usually people who have spent time in the lower levels, since which level you're in is random (or at least 50/50 on if your sent to a good level each month). Meaning if you don't fatten yourself up one month you could easily starve to death the next month; even with the forced rationing they have clearly run out of food when they hit the bottom levels (and that's with several empty levels).

* AmbiguousEnding: The final scene of the film is [[spoiler:Goreng choosing to stay in the void beneath the 333th floor while the child goes to Floor 0 to be a message to the Administration. What happens to Goreng and the child, and whether anything changes for the better, is left unknown.]]

* WorthlessYellowRocks: One prisoner chose a giant bag of money as his item in the prison (probably expecting to keep it if he made it out) and gives it as a thankyou for bringing down food to his level. Goreng is clearly unimpressed

* WhamShot: During Goreng and Baharat's descent, they pass by Goreng's estimated number of floors. It turns out the Hole is comprised of [[spoiler:'''333''' floors, meaning that more than 250 people are left to starve every month. And that's just assuming they don't cannibalize to survive.]]

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Both Imoguiri and Baharat.]] And plenty of unfortunate people who find themselves on the wrong level.

* DirtyOldMan: Trimagasi is very old and extremely filthy in his eating habits
* EldritchLocation: Although not built by aliens (maybe, we never find out anything about the mysterious administration) the hole place [[LamePunReaction (Im sorry)]] defies all logic; the prison has 333 floors (with [[NumberOfTheBeast 666]] inmates) but has no foundations underneath it all (leading to an endless black void) the platform itself has no mechanism to move it, instead it simply floats down defying physics all the way and speeds up at the end of the day before cancelling all momentum when it reaches the top.
** Aditionally the building itself has no cameras but is able to detect when any prisoners horde any food and each floor is capable of either cooking or freezing the inmates in that floor without any of the heat or frost escaping into either the floor below or above.

* HellholePrison: Not so much for the people in the higher levels, but the lower you go, the more horrific the conditions get.

* KatanasAreJustBetter: The line of knife products that Trimagasi bought have "Samurai" in the name. The advertisements touted the amazing sharpness the products provide, referencing the legends of katana.
** Also one of the convicts' item of choice was a Katana

* NoodleImplements: Imoguiri questions why the hell Goreng would bring a book into the hole; she undoubtedly asked the same question when another prisoner demanded to bring in a surfboard.

* CapitalismIsBad: The film's theme, that selfishness makes society worse for everyone, includes capitalism. Trimagasi was driven into a rage when he was duped by a company into buying an outdated item. When Goreng first tries to inspire others to pull together for the common good, Trimagasi dismisses him as a communist and says no one will ever listen to such talk.

NightmareFuel/ThePlatform

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Both Imoguiri and Baharat.]]

* MessianicArchetype: Goreng comes to see himself as this. [[spoiler:In the end though, he's come to view the child as this instead.]]

''The Platform'' is a 2019 Spanish science fiction film directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia. The movie takes place in a vertical prison that is divided into levels, each with two prisoners and a hole in both the ceiling and floor. Each day, a platform full of immaculately made food descends through these holes and stops at each level. Prisoners are given a limited amount of time to eat what they can before it leaves their level and goes to the one below them. Due to the greed and privilege of the prisoners who reside in the higher levels, the food is invariably reduced to scraps after a while, while the lowest prisoners can only dream of getting that much. The movie focuses on an idealistic newcomer who came to this hellhole of his own accord, and tries to provoke change among the prisoners and thereby send a message to the administration.