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Watched The Platform on NF a few weeks ago. Great concept and cool scifi setting, but it was generally a colossal bore.

Basically it's a vertical prison (which is a tremendously impractical design) where each floor consists of a cell with two prisoners and a gap running from the top of the structure to the bottom where, once a day, a platform containing food slowly descends floor by floor, stopping at each one for a few minutes.

While the most obvious interpretation of the theme might that of a criticism of so-called trickle-down economics (since the top floors eat very well, the middle floors get their leftovers, those below them get the scraps, and often nothing reaches the people towards the bottom), you get a bit more going on and the characters themselves frequently discuss the system.

As you might expect, there's murder and cannibalism but, despite that, things just feel so unbelievably dull. The action is relatively subdued and the dialogue is pretty weak, partly because it's translated (and the dub frequently differs from the sub)

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There are precious few at ease / With moral ambiguities / So we act as though they don't exist.