Nameless cooks hustle in the opening montage of Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s brutalist nightmare “The Platform.” Their kitchen is a blend of the delicate and the savage. A violinist p…
.” Their kitchen is a blend of the delicate and the savage. A violinist plays as blades rip through fish, and the head chef caresses a dangling ham. When finished, they’ve assembled a still-life masterpiece of lobster, papaya and cake on a concrete slab. The feast could feed hundreds, but it never does. As it descends, level by level, down a residential tower, each pair of cellmates have minutes to gobble as much as they can before the food moves on to the next floor.
Unlike Trimagasi, who was forced into the tower for killing a man — just an illegal immigrant, he shrugs — Goreng volunteered for a six-month stint. He wanted to quit smoking, earn a diploma and finally read “Don Quixote,” the one object he chose to bring into his cell. Unlucky for him, Trimagasi selected a knife, and the story behind it — an inadvertently anti-capitalist screed delivered by someone who deeply believes in capitalism — is one of the highlights of Desola and Rivera’s script.
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