This is a high-concept, high-definition, high-satisfying, and highly-closed Spanish movie, reminiscent of Feng Junhao’s "Snow Country Train", and it also reminds people of "Painful Fang". Many people also think of it. This movie is discussed with "Moving Maze".
If you want to start the analysis of "Hunger Platform", you have to start the spoiler mode from the beginning.
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Plot review
"Hunger Platform" is set in a closed overhead prison. There are criminals in the prison, and some voluntarily join the prison experiment like the protagonist. Everyone who enters the prison can bring in an item.
This prison structure is a vertical type. Finally, we know that the prison has a total of 333 floors. On the periphery of the top floor of the prison, there is a team of top chefs. Every day, the chef team will make a large table of rich dishes. People’s favorite food.
Every day, the chef team places this table of dishes on the 0th floor, and then this table of rich food will sink to the first floor along with the suspended platform in the middle. By analogy, the lower the level of people, the less food they eat, and they even eat leftovers, and then they eat the bones left by others, and nothing is left in the end.
The prison also has an anti-theft mechanism. If someone wants to hoard food, even if they steal a piece of fruit, then this layer will start extremely hot or cold temperature, so you have to throw away the leftover food.
Everyone will stay on their own level for a period of time, and then the prison will stun you with anesthetic gas, and then randomly place you on a certain level. If you are well-destined, you will be on the upper floor and you will be able to eat and even eat food. Eat good food, but if you are on the lower floor, you are basically waiting to die.
The uneven distribution of resources leads to the overeating of people at the upper level, but the lower people get, the food will be less and less. At about 50 floors, there is basically no food. On the 70th or 80th floor, the table Only tableware is left on the top, so those who are down will either kill each other and eat each other, or see who can bear to change floors.
The male protagonist entered the prison experiment voluntarily, and he chose a book called Don Quixote to take him into the prison.
At the beginning of the film, the male protagonist is on the 48th floor, in the same prison as a middle-aged man who says "obviously" in the mantra. At first, the male protagonist was dismissive, and some pretended not to eat other people’s leftover food, but for a few days. After coming down, I couldn't help being hungry and started eating.
Moreover, the male protagonist found that the prison food shortage problem was that there was no reasonable and even distribution, so he began to teach people to eat sparingly. Of course, it is obvious that no one will listen to him. Everyone always eats himself as much as possible first.
During the period, the male protagonist also met a woman who came down from above. Xian Bo said that the woman was looking for her son. In order to increase the chance of meeting her son, she would kill her roommate and follow the table to find her from top to bottom. I haven't found it.
Soon, the male lead and Xian uncle changed the prison floor and reached the 171st floor. The male lead woke up and found that he was tied up by Xian uncle. Xian uncle tied up the male lead not because they were fighting for food, because the dining table on this floor was not No food will be left.
The reason why Xianbo tied the male protagonist was that after a week, people couldn’t fight against hunger. He could only eat each other if he wanted to survive. In order for both of them to survive, Xianbo had to use the knife he brought with him to cut off the non-lethal part of the male protagonist’s flesh. , To support the two.
Just when Uncle Xian attacked the male lead, the woman who came down to look for her son arrived on this floor. The woman killed Xian uncle and saved the male lead.
The male protagonist was wounded and bleeding. After insisting on not eating for a period of time, it was obvious that he would be cold if he did not eat any more. At this time, the woman was eating happily Xian Bo. In order to let the male protagonist continue his life, the woman cut off Xian Bo’s. Feed the meat to the male lead, so the male lead survived on the 171st floor.
The exchange floor time came again. This time the male lead arrived on the 33rd floor and was with a former prison interviewer. The interviewer also joined the prison experiment voluntarily. She upholds the concept of spontaneous unity and helps the next floor distribute good food. Every time they bitterly ask them not to eat too much food, but no one listens.
In the end, the male protagonist threatened the people downstairs. If he didn't listen, he would pull down the excrement at every food, so that everyone could not eat it, which played a certain role.
After the male protagonist reached the 202 floor, the interviewer directly hanged himself, and the male protagonist woke up with a square face. Similarly, in the situation of unbearable hunger, the male protagonist decided to betray his conscience and soul under the instigation of his death. Start with the interviewer to protect yourself from surviving.
The male protagonist who persisted, reached the sixth floor this time, as if he had reached heaven. At this time, the male protagonist’s roommate was a black guy. He was still not satisfied with the sixth floor, but wanted to reach the top floor and leave this ghost place.
But the people on the 5th floor did not want to help him at all. Just as the stalemate, the male protagonist thought of a solution from the actions of the black guys. The male protagonist decided to descend with the suspended dining table. After reaching the bottom, he bounced through this bottoming. , The dining table will eventually rise back to the top floor, thus gaining freedom.
As a result, the male protagonist and the black guy sank one after another, and violently prevented people above the 50th floor from eating food, and then the people below the 50th floor evenly distributed food to ensure that everyone could eat.
In the process of sinking, they also met a wise man halfway through. The wise man asked them to bring a complete panna cotta, so that they could send a message to the manager. What this information means will be discussed later in the analysis.
Later, they also met a woman looking for a son, but the woman had been killed by the prisoners, and the male lead and them were also seriously injured in the fight.
But in the end, they reached the bottom 333 and found an Asian girl. It seemed that she was the woman who had been finding the child, but the woman was looking for the son, and there were no children under the age of 16 in the prison.
In the end they decided to give the milk jelly to the girl. The black guy was killed because of excessive blood loss. The male protagonist finally understood that the girl was actually the message to the manager, so the male protagonist decided to stay at the bottom of the 333th floor. On the ground floor, the girl rushed up with the suspended dining table.
Perception analysis
As early as 2008 before "Hunger Platform", Dennis Villeneuve, the director of "Blade Runner 2049", made a short film called "The Next Level", which won the Cannes Film Festival the following year. Best short film.
"The Next Level" is about a group of people of various identities, gathered around a table and ate sumptuous food, and there are waiters around them constantly serving them new food, but soon after eating, the table and people collapsed. Sink to the next floor, and then the waiter followed to the next floor.
But as the people at the table eat more and more happily, the time difference between sinking becomes very short, and finally the table and people begin to sink endlessly, and the waiter can no longer serve the people at the table, which implies that the people at the table are not happy. Greedy and ugly.
Although "Hunger Platform" and "Next Level" are not directly connected, the inspiration for "Hunger Platform" seems to come from "The Next Level".
For a high-definition work such as "Hunger Platform", it is isolated from real life, and the film tries to extract a higher conceptual meaning.
So how is "Hunger Platform" doing? Use the vertical metaphor in the film. I think "Hunger Platform" is under "Farring Fang" and "Snow Country Train", and above "Moving Maze".
"Hunger Platform" is indeed well done in terms of settings and concepts, novel enough to catch people's attention, but the idea to be expressed in the film is too straightforward and straightforward and lacks the so-called white space.
How to understand this sentence, such as the direct discussion of spontaneous unity and forced unity in the film, as well as the top-down distribution inequality, are all moved to the stage and put in the lines of each character. In fact, even if the film does not go Explain and explain, the audience can also find the irony and metaphor of the film, so why bother to do so.
Many people still compare "Hunger Platform" and "Parasite" because both works are about class, but "Parasite" hides the class deeply from beginning to end, which requires the audience to discover and explore by themselves, but The "Parasite" plot itself displays a strong dramatic conflict and irony, a sense of reality and reality, and "Parasite" is also stronger than "Hunger Platform".
Of course, we can see that "Platform Hunger" has great ambitions. Through the perspective and experience of the protagonist, the audience can experience the torture of human nature in this prison experiment, the thinking about class, and the uneven distribution of food in the world. Explore and so on.
This also makes the film more advanced than the average horror and thriller, and we can indeed get some interesting discussions in the film.
Next, I will use Q & A to try to analyze some of the key plots in the film. There is only one person’s subjective point of view. Do not like it. Welcome to discuss.
Q1: Is the woman looking for a son in the film really looking for a son?
A: Actually, in a movie with a high setting like "Hunger Platform", the characters in the film must be representative.
For example, the protagonist represents the transition from idealism to realism. Other roles are relatively fixed, Xianbo represents pragmatism, interviewer represents perfectionism, and the black guy represents liberalism.
The woman looking for a son is romantic.
In addition to these, the film has expanded, and other characters in the film are still mixed with pessimism, fantasy, conservatism, humanism, socialism, communism and so on.
According to the current analysis of the interviewer's words, the woman came in by herself 10 months ago. Before she came in, the woman was alone without a family member, so where would the children come from?
Some people say that a woman was born pregnant in prison, but within 10 months, it is impossible to give birth to the last six or seven-year-old girl in the film.
And the woman is talking about looking for a son instead of a daughter.
There are four explanations here. The first is that the woman is on the same level as the girl in a prison assignment, and the woman regards the girl as her own child.
But they are separated in the next assignment. Of course I know that if the roommate does not die, it will not cause separation.
But for example, someone took the girl away through the suspended dining table, or the woman tried her best to jump to the upper floor to find food for the girl, causing them to be separated.
As a result, the woman went crazy looking for girls.
The second explanation is that the woman is crazy, or she has heard her roommate say that there are Asian children in the prison, so the woman is looking for children crazily (the gender of the child is wrong to indicate that the woman is crazy).
The third explanation is that there are no children at all in the prison. All this is the last fantasy of the male lead. The male lead may have died while fighting other people in the prison that saved the woman (the child’s gender error indicates that it is not true).
The fourth explanation is that there is indeed a child, and it is indeed the woman’s. This was deliberately arranged by the manager, and even the interviewer did not know about it. Then the manager told the woman that they had put the woman’s child there. In the prison, and on the 333rd floor, she asked her to find a way to increase the experimental nature of the prison.
These are my four explanations for women above. Which one do you believe more?
Q2: What do girls and information represent?
A: The so-called information, my understanding is that the lower class people have a romantic fantasy about the upper class. At first they used milk jelly as information. The prisoners wanted to tell the managers that they could control their own desires and destiny, and let each layer Everyone has food.
Later, the message became a girl, and the goal became more clear to tell the managers that they reached the lowest level and finally chose to send the girl to the 0th floor. The girl represents hope, as well as the conscience and brilliance of human nature.
But for the structure and setting of the prison itself, it is not difficult to see that no matter what you send, they don’t care about the managers. What the managers want is the result of the experiment, even just a kind of experimental pleasure. It is not a request made by people in prison, and people in prison will not be released because of information.
Q3: Have women ever been to the bottom, have they seen their children?
A: I don’t think it is. Although the woman keeps going down, almost every floor is blocked. As long as the woman fights with that floor, it takes too long to tell the winner. The floating table will sink. There is no way to take the dining table, so I can only stay on that floor.
And until the next assignment, the woman may have to sink again, and so on.
Q4: Who is the manager
A: First of all, "Hunger Platform" is a high-concept work. Everyone in the prison has their own representatives and metaphors, so the manager is no exception. I think the manager more represents the identity of God, but this God is not the God who we usually save the dead and heal the wounded, and save people from fire and water.
Managers are more like the God who judges the role, exposing people's bottom line and greed, and revealing the ugliest side of people naked.
Q5: Why doesn't the protagonist keep up?
A: As mentioned in the film, the protagonist is the messenger, and the messenger does not need to go up.
The deeper meaning is actually to explain from the side that the male protagonist did this, not for freedom, otherwise he would not sign up for prison voluntarily.
Another explanation is that the male protagonist is actually dead in the process of descent, and seeing the little girl is also an illusion of the male protagonist. In fact, all of this is just a beautiful vision of the male protagonist. The prison is still ugly and the human nature is still dirty.
Do you still remember the "Don Quixote" taken by the male protagonist when he went to jail. This book is one of the most classic Spanish literature. The protagonist Don Quixote in the book imagines that he is a knight and does a lot of incredible things. In the end, Don Quixote Wake up from a dream.
Don Quixote in the book finally became a character who is both gratifying and sad, who is a combination of contradictions.
The story of "Hunger Platform" and the protagonist's experience have many things in common, and they are full of irony, fantasy, morality, religion, politics and so on.
Q6: Is it useful for girls to send them up? What does the ending mean?
A: The little girl was sent up at the end of "Platform of Hunger". The film had an open ending, the purpose is for people to discuss, without an answer.
As I said earlier, I don't think there is any effect when the girl is sent up. The manager is an unsentimental judge who will not respond to any actions made by the prison.
And the girl might be sent by the manager at the beginning to increase the richness of the prison experiment.
In general, "Hunger Platform" has indeed created a lot of surprises in certain plots, and discussion and thinking can also be carried out. Under the influence of the current epidemic, cinema movies have basically been suspended. "Hunger Platform" is still worth recommending.
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