History Film / ThePlatform

* ArtisticLicenseBiology - The chances of Goreng surviving as long as he did is near impossible. The average body can last around 30-40 days without food if the person is in peak physical form... and not [[spoiler: tied to a bed for 8 days. Not moving for 8 days with such a severe calorie deficiency would, at least, cover him in bed sores and would also turn his muscles into jello.]] As soon as he[[spoiler: got up]], he would have been a goner.
** The chances of anyone surviving is a [[WritersCannotDoMath statistical nightmare]]. While doing the math, the average human body needs, at minimum, 2000 calories for the average man not to lose around a pound a day. If someone lasted a full month without food (while losing around 30 pounds), they would need to be on floor, ideally, 50 and above so they can binge at least 1000 extra calories to gain weight to not potentially starve to death the next month.[[spoiler: For someone to get spot 100 out of 666 once is 15%. For someone to get 100 out of 666 twice in a row is 8%.]]

** The chances of anyone surviving is a [[WritersCannotDoMath statistical nightmare]]. While doing the math, the average human body needs, at minimum, 2000 calories for the body to not digest itself. In the best scenario, a human being could potentially survive if they didn't waste away their fat and muscle. If someone lasted a full month without food, they would need to be on floor 100 (ideally 50) or higher the next month to not die of starvation. [[Spoilers: For someone to get spot 100-200 out of 666 once is 1-2 out of 6. For someone to get 1-2 out of 6 twice in a row is 1 out of 68.]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology - The chances of Goreng surviving as long as he did is near impossible. The average body can last around 30-40 days without food if the person is in peak physical form... and not [[spoiler: tied to a bed for 8 days. Not moving for 8 days with such a severe calorie deficiency would, at least, cover him in bed sores and would also turn his muscles into jello.]] As soon as he was [[spoiler: tied down]], he would have been a goner.

* AsTheGoodBookSays: Goreng hallucinates Imoguiri, right after she commited suicide, quoting John 6:53:

* ImprovisedWeapons: Goreng and Baharat take out their bed frames and break off the bars to use as weapons.

* DrunkWithPower: This is the attitude acquired by prisoners even if they aren't that high up in the Hole. The ones above stuff their faces with as much food as they can stomach in one minute, then wehn it comes time to pass the rest to the levels below, they may leave behind all sorts of contamination. Trimagasi is only on level 48, which means that he is eating from the leftovers of, at the most, 96 other prisoners, yet relishes the moment to taunt the lower levels and spit out uneaten food back onto the platform simply because there are prisoners below.

* NaiveNewcomer: Both Goreng and Imoguiri serve this role in the movie, with Goreng entering in the Platform to attain 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 thank you for bringing down food to his level. Goreng is clearly unimpressed.

->''"Hunger unleashes the madman is us"''

** Later 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.]]

* BlackComedy: A blink and you will miss it variant; Miharu is saved by Goreng after presumably being beaten / raped by prisoners above them; they nurse her back to health and [[UngratefulBastard she repays them by killing and gutting Imoguiri's dog]], the reason she does this is so she can make a bag out of its skin to carry food with her. Making a literal doggy bag.

* UnreliableNarrator: Imoguiri, despite directly working for the Administration. She claims that there's 200 floors, and that Miharu's child can't possibly be in the prison, as they don't take kids under 16. [[spoiler:Both of these claims are wrong.]] [[spoiler:At least the first.]]

* EldritchLocation: Although not built by aliens (maybe, we never find out anything about the mysterious administration), "The Hole" 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 simply floating down, defying physics all the way, and speeds up at the end of the day before cancelling all momentum when it reaches the top. Additionally, 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.

** 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 dessert 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]].

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Imoguiri after she ends up in a low level]] And plenty of unfortunate people who find themselves on the wrong level.

* ForegoneConclusion: [[AmbiguousSituation Possibly]]. [[spoiler:Earlier in the film, the head chef of the Administration can be seen berating a chef for allegedly getting some hair in a serving of panna cotta. The only other time we see panna cotta is in the final stretch of the film, where Goreng and Baharat protect a small dish of panna cotta that looks a lot like the one we see in that scene in order to send a message to the Administration. However, Mali, Miharu's lost child, eats it, with Goreng deciding to send her up instead as a stronger message. Considering that the chef never considers the possibility of it being Mali's hair, and the fact that the panna cotta is still fully intact, it's possible that Mali never even existed, as Imoguiri claimed, and [[DownerEnding sadly]], [[AllForNothing the message was not received either way]]]].

* ImAHumanitarian: [[spoiler:Trimagasi is revealed to have partaken in the consumption of human flesh, and was fully prepared to do it again when he and Goreng find themselves on Level 171. Goreng himself winds up eating at least a bit of both Trimagasi and Imoguiri.]]

* SkewedPriorities: The facility operating The Hole enforces rules that practically force the majority of the prisoners to either starve or resort to cannibalism, and even the better off levels can form enough class resentment that they spit or worse in food meant for those worse off. Still, a head chef becomes enraged at a cook and feels the need to humiliate him in front of his peers because the cook got a hair in the prisoners' food.

* ToiletHumor: Some cheap laughs are made here and there from the prisoners urinating or defecating on each other.

** First, after Imoguiri (who worked directly for the Administration), claims that there are 200 levels, the next month, Goreng wakes ups and sees that his new level's number is ''203'' and there are ''still'' more levels down.

** Goreng and Baharat's descent and forceful rationing of the food can be seen as the process of a revolution attempt, as at first they violently have to prevent the people in the upper levels from grabbing the food, then a wise old man in the lower levels tells them that they must first attempt to convince the others before resorting to violence, then they start convincing people and only use violence against those who disregard what they say.

* UngratefulBastard: While Miharu saved Goreng's life once because he tried to help her; when he and Imoguiri nurse her back to health later; she kills their dog. Leaning on the idea she didn't kill Trimagasi because he Goreng tried to help but because [[ForTheEvulz she just wanted to]].

** Trimagasi seems to think very little of the illegal immigrant he killed, simply believing that it was their fault for happening to be nearby when he threw the TV.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Imoguiri after she ends up in a low level, and Baharat once the child eats the panacotta that he and Goreng had been saving as a message.]] And plenty of unfortunate people who find themselves on the wrong level.

** "Obviously

* {{Catchphrase}}: Trimagasi considers "obviously" to be ''his'' word, to the point of being annoyed when Goreng uses it.

* DespairEventHorizon: Imoguiri crosses this when [[spoiler:Miharu kills her dog for food]]. She spends quite some time curled up on her bed, crying her eyes out, [[spoiler:still skipping meals on the days she usually set aside for him as if [[SanitySlippage believing that he's still alive]]]].

* Foreshadowing: Imoguiri despite her claims of having worked for the Administration, being proven wrong on the number of levels the Hole has, foreshadows also being wrong on her claim that [[spoiler:no one under 16 is ever admitted to the Hole]].

** "Obviously."

* SanitySlippage: Goreng starts to lose his grip on reality after everything the Hole puts him through, and starts to hallucinate Imoguiri and Trimagasi talking to him.

* SpiritualAdvisor: [[spoiler:Every one of Goreng's deceased acquaintances show up in his hallucinations to guide him on his journey.]]

* AffectionateNickname: Trimigasi starts addressing Goreng as “little snail”, after comparing [[spoiler:his preparation and consumption of Goreng’s flesh]] to Goreng’s favorite dish, ''Escargots à la Bourguignonne''.

* AnimalMotifs: Goreng’s favorite dish is ''Escargots à la Bourguignonne'', a dish comprised of snails. Trimigasi mentions this dish without knowing the former’s fondness for it, comparing it to [[spoiler:how he plans to prepare and eventually eat Goreng]]. He even creepily starts referring to Goreng as “[his] little snail”.

** Trimigasi was also hesitant to [[spoiler:eat or at least harm]] Goreng specifically because of how much he genuinely cared for him.

* 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

* ExtremeOmnivore: As the platform lowers and less food is available, people get less fussy over what they will eat

** After causing the death of an illegal immigrant in the past refuses to take responsibility for it by saying that he shouldn't even have been there in the first place.