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A Second Helping of The Platform Isn’t as Tasty as the First
At what point does a great premise start to feel a little picked over? There’s definitely a leftover quality to The Platform 2.
Commencing from an ingeniously simple and cruel science-fiction conceit, the Spanish thriller took place entirely within a futuristic prison — a tower of sparsely dressed, two-person cells euphemistically dubbed a”Vertical Self-Management Center,” but colloquially referred to as The Pit by its unlucky occupants. The message is blunt but effective: We’re all fighting for the same leftovers, The Platform says — a capitalistic critique that had a little extra bite during the dog days of the first pandemic summer, when the film smashed some streaming records on Netflix. The sequel isn’t totally starved for fresh ideas, conceptual or thematic; for one, the rules governing its hellish setting — a symbolic column of class warfare, like the Snowpiercer flipped on its side — have been tweaked.
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