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The Platform 2’s Ending Casts the Original in a Depressing New Light
In its bleak final minutes, the sequel reverses the first film’s message about hope as a force of political change.
What she finds at the bottom, though, is a dark truth about the Pit: Hiding among the bodies the overseers are clearing away, she witnesses them introduce a small, healthy child, just like the one discovered on floor 333 in the original. The different system of food management, in which each inmate selects their own specific meal in advance (under the idealistic assumption that everyone will simply eat their share and nothing more), looks like the kind of institutional change that might come to fruition as a result of the original’s ending. In fact, for a while, it’s tempting to read The Platform 2 as an allegorical look at what happens after a revolution, as a strictly capitalistic structure is replaced by an authoritarian regime whose rules of “fair” resource distribution become another way to hold on to and exert power.
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