The little girl is a gentle fantasy

Jennifer 2021-11-25 08:01:30

The story tells the end: the cake was returned to level 0, but it did not act as a signal. The chef thought the cake was returned because there was hair in it.

The little girl was fantasised (the evidence is in another film review). The purpose of designing the little girl is to design the protagonist and give her the cake. Because the truth is that the cake did not play any role in the end, a metaphor for the despair of human nature and the system. Fancy giving the cake to a little girl, saving a little girl is a kind of tenderness to this despair

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Extended Reading
  • Marlen 2021-11-25 08:01:30

    Let's understand this platform as a social nation, which has its own system-the power to allocate resources from top to bottom. People are forced to enter this platform or voluntarily, and they have to survive under the established system. Some people carry weapons (violence), and some carry books (civilization). In the upper level where you can eat, there is naturally room for talking about civilization, while the lower level where you can’t fill your stomach is lucky enough to eat the leftovers of the upper level, while the bottom level can only be eaten by people. But under this kind of system (the food and clothing are not resolved), it is not feasible to use civilized means to reform. Self-discipline is against human nature, so we must start from the outside world and force changes. So the system is cold-blooded, but the people at the top may still have a trace of humanity. Sending the signal up and praying to touch the managers is actually just the last humble and weak resistance of the people at the bottom. The setting of the film is really wonderful. It shows nakedly that most people live like this under the system. Whether they are willing to be slaves or reformers, they can only hope for children (the next generation) in the end, and it may not be necessary. It is a cruel reality to succeed.

  • Ashleigh 2022-03-24 09:01:35

    Good philosophical hard core, Black Mirror and the like seem much weaker

The Platform quotes

  • [last lines]

    Trimagasi: Will she succeed?

    Goreng: She's the message.

    Trimagasi: She is the message...

  • Goreng: The people above won't listen to me.

    Imoguiri: Why not?

    Goreng: I can't shit upwards.