Quarantine Watch #28: The Platform (2020)

Jumped on the bandwagon of everyone watching this one. It was a cool concept that comes off the heels of films like ELYSIUM and SNOWPIERCER. I’ve always liked watching movies like this — a group of people in an enclosed environments with harsh rules that could lead to death — films like EXAM, CIRCLE, THE CUBE, SAW, and UNKNOWN (2006). The production design is simple, but effective and allows the camera to make some pretty nice compositions. It’s weird, the film is an oxymoron: it is both claustrophobic and open at the same time. The socio-political commentary wasn’t anything new and was a little too obvious, but it was also somehow clever. I keep going back and forth on this point. That being said the movie does things I didn't expect at times and was overall a fun thing to watch.

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