A Depiction of a dystopian Capitalism (Beware Mild Spoilers)
We all might have heard or just be familiar with the dystopian scenarios such as High Rise (2015), Snowpiercer (2013), or The Raid (2011) where cine there are different difficulties for different layers respectively due to the course of the plots.
The movie roughly begins when our main character decides to get a university degree upon a contract which requires him to complete the challenge in the system called VSC, a.k.a. the `Vertical Self-Management Center` or `the Platform` (The Hole in the Spanish Language). This can be interpreted that the student loans in real life seem to offer a solid future for the applicant, however, paying off the debts could waste most of the important years in one's youth. The attendants mainly join this complex with `the Platform` believing that they will receive something important for their life faster in return. However, without knowing the consequences in the aftermath on the platform, they tend to sign the contract hoping for an easy catch.
`Obviously`
The challenge turns out not a simple task to achieve. There are 333 levels in the whole complex where 2 people assigned for each people. 666 people in total also could be a metaphor that the society is evil and they could commit anything evil for their good and survival. At the beginning of every month, the floor where the contestants are on changes randomly which makes the challenge even more frustrating, especially on the lower levels.
`The Platform`
Itself is loaded with a variety of food from low to high-quality and is lowered down from the top of the building to down bottom once a day. The contestants have only a few amounts of time in order to keep their stomachs full and the upper floor they are on, the more food they consume, leaving less and less nutrition for the people down below them. Furthermore, it is not allowed to store the food for the next days, and doing so causes either extremely hot or cold temperatures on the present floor so that the contestants are forced to get rid of that food.
Nevertheless, they are allowed to bring only one item with them before the entrance which could be anything valuable or useful. Our main character decides to bring a book with him and this book turns out to be one of the French Classics `Don Quixote` and later on in the movie, our character is trying to fight the system or delusional equality-utopia which might be similar to the book where Don Quixote was trying to fight the windmills that resemble evil giants (or social problems in this case). Therefore, our protagonist thinks that the food on the lowering platform could be way more than enough for all the people there, however, the selfish people on the top of the chain always intend to get everything they could get their hands on and never share or care for the people down below them. This situation might be perceived as a great depiction of nowadays capitalism.
Afterward, our main character finds a fellow friend for his cause to bring equality for all of the people on the platform, however, they struggle a lot during that adventure, and not so many seem to take their side as they want to be more secure and afraid to go against the system breaking out a revolution.
The essential question in this movie is: ‘Can we maintain our egalitarian values in such a competitive environment we are living in?` It is a hard question to answer, however, the ideologies such as `Universal Basic Income` or the `Zero Waste` projects could help people to be more understanding of each other and learn how to share. We all know that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer in the recent year more than ever, however, we should keep in mind that if we are not going to help to elevate each other, then the human species might cease to exist at some point of time.
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Not sure if capitalism is the right system to compare this movie to, socialism is probably a better choice. The people are trapped in this weird underground place, which is similar to how socialism works, by trapping the people inside (Berlin wall, Cuba, Venezuela, and the incredibly expensive way for citizens to obtain passports even though they are all poor).
Not only they are trapped, but the amount of food is fixed and determined by the elites. In capitalism, the amount of food would vary and would be determined by demand.
But either way, I loved the film and this dystopian place was very shocking to watch. Super original and entertaining.
You could also compare it with trickle down economy, human behavior in capitalism.
You make valid points though, thanks i didn't think of socialism
My first serious post I'm a real movie addict! :) This movie was quite original
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