#134 – The Platform

For this Movie-Ghoul-Round's Around the World, David picked the
TIFF and Netflix sensation, The Platform (El Hoyo). In exchange
for a degree to get himself ahead in life, Goreng volunteers for
six months in the "Vertical Self-Management Center," a prison in
which the residents are literally stacked on top of each other,
with two inmates per floor and a vertical shaft where the food
platform comes through for two minutes a day. Among many deep
musings, David, Brett, and Nicole talked about the filmmaking,
the less-than-subtle metaphors, the fascination with the
dystopian prison genre, and whether it's possible for one person
to fight an entrenched system. Come have a listen.


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Our Movie-Ghoul-Round theme is Some Amount of Evil by Kevin
MacLeod Link:
https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4388-some-amount-of-evil
License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license Brief music clips
are from the main theme to El Hoyo (The Platform), composed
by Aránzazu Calleja. Inserted for purposes of review under
fair use doctrine.


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