Why It Is A Great Netflix Original Sci-Fi Thriller: Here we have another dystopian survival story in director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s Spanish-language thriller The Platform (which is available with English dubbing on Netflix), but with elements of persecution and imprisonment that are more overt than its subtler themes of class and poverty in this grim story that is just as entertaining as a genre flick as its is strong and haunting socio-economic parable.
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To break his smoking habit, a man (Ivan Massagué) voluntarily checks himself into a prison consisting of an unknown number of vertically stacked cells each holding two inmates who are fed once a day by a feast descending from the top level, but not everyone gets their fair share.