THE PLATFORM Ending Explained!

What ya'll ordering for the Platform? Can ya'll believe no one chose pizza? 🍕 SMH

Also Imoguiri didn't think it would cure her cancer. She just knew there was no way for her to heal and she didn't have any chance to survive anyway so she just went there to make a change for the other people.

Welcome to America

Hey, there are just 665 people. The child has no cellmate.

Cool! But did you see the speed that platform was ascending? To come to a stop that quickly … well, how to put that… Newton has some bad news for the ceiling cleaner on the 0th floor.

But I still don't understand why the child is there and how she survives?
This point renders the film illogical.

Before I even play this, is this a summary of the movie or an actual explanation of the movie?

I believe that there is really no one to receive a message on the 0 floor level. There are only cooks who supply enough food on a daily basis. The problem is how people share food. It's easy to blame a leader or a system but this does not exist, is the attitude of each one what counts. The quest to send a message to level zero is like Don Quixote's fight, noble but imaginary. The girl is part of his imagination, since it would be impossible to have survived unharmed and without a scratch. I like that the movie not only criticizes capitalism but also communism because it is only sustained by force. The movie proves that there is no possible system that is fair but that the solution is to change yourself and everyone would do it as well. If we were all generous with each other, the world's problems would end and the political system would not matter. Something simple but impossible by our nature.

Tbh my whole train of thought was this..

even if they did make it to the bottom level and ascended to the top to level 0.. the speed of the lift traveling upwards and then stopping rapidly just fling the child to the roof of level 0 killing her instantly?

Like I get it that's not what the movie was about but still. Great movie btw I'm still shook by what I just witnessed here

again you didnt explain shit, you just told us the same thing we watched.
And fuck that shitty ending!

I figured the real ending was the spped of the platform moving up then suddenly holting to a stop would've launched the girl into the ceiling exploding her 😂

This could have been a black mirror episode big time

I think the movie is about the need to set clear rules and policies to regulate people's behaviour. Masses need direction otherwise chaos just takes over.
If they sent 666 plates of food with the clear understanding that there were 666 people that needed to eat. Would a plate make it to floor 333.

felt like an advert for authoritarian socialism to me

VERTICAL SNOWPIERCER AHHAHAH

How would the little girl have survived the 150MPH concrete table?

Hot wings for me and the boys. Mang

Lol. Capitalism is king. There are homeless that have become billionares. Liberal b.s

Some parts of this movie makes me think about the crusades

I’m ordering kfc

So. Here is my conclusion. The levels are the capitalist society. The would be enough food for every one but people on the top are to eager to take everyting what they can and The people above are busy to stay alive so solidarity won't ever happen. The darknes underneath is the death. You can't possibly have anyting worst than death nyt ofcourse If you are dead you don't need to compete on the system and you are free from it. The upper levels are obviously the richer class on society. The child is on the last level BUT she is happy and unharmed because she is not manipulated by the system like adults. She doesn't know any better. The woman that goes down there to help her are the few people that tries to help the poorer part of society. The platform moves amazingly fast speed because you can't never go up without a help from up. The level 0 is god. He desides everyting. When you wake up every month from a different level the "god" has planed than. If you are on level 3 and you would like to get to The level 2, you would need help from a higher level than you. When The child goes up and reaches the level 0, she breaks the system.

This movie is genious.

The parallelism with the reality we are living seeing the egoism being pushed fwd by the pandemic is Damn Scary.

if everyone ate their favrite food in the hole they could survive right?

So what is raising and lowering the platform?

It is a mistake to believe movie makers have 1. intelligence 2. education in economics 3. act in good faith …
There are like 20 MAJOR flaws ; protagonist could have simply chilled 30 days, got out, stopped it from outside .. duh
Movie rating 1/10, throw in gore, 33s, 666s, capitalism bad, forget science/physics, secret levels, people greedy, we are all same blah blah …

The ending sucked so bad.

If you are into numerology
333 It means that your angels are just nearby, ready to help and reassure you that your plans are going well. It sends the message that your prayers have been answered, and seeing 333 means that whatever you requested for is on its way to you.

The message was the child because our future is our children what we feed them they will preach and teach. If you feed the child the pana cotta they will understand love and also how big an act of kindness is and will life their lives for a better future in our society.

Capitalism isn't bad. Socialism is.
No this movie doesn't perfectly represent our societies today. You're(the commentors) seeing what you want to see and trying to force a square into a circle shaped hole. Far too many prissy, pretentious people on these comments.

These people Litterally do not even work for the food, they're given it, others work to provide the food for them but there's not enough to go around. The prisoners could affect change, by working( together ) bu they don't. I've come across a lot of socialist and they're very self serving types and don't think of community or the good of the group but love to preach about it. Many political figures who sell socialism have mansions and millions but never give any of their money to help out.

So perhaps the movie is about those claiming welfare/benfits unfairly, or about socialists, who want something for nothing but aren't willing to do enough to help their peers and lesser, they demand it from those who do achieve and work. excuses are made for why they can't make it. And blame the people above instead of themselves, acting like they're not responsible for their own actions.
If not enough people get off and pull the wagon then the wagon goes nowhere.

Final note. The characters have their own ideas of what it's all about, just as we're doing now about this movie.

It was too much of an open ending in my opinion.

Just the words "Corona virus" just get bleeped out from the beginning sentence? I swear it was there yesterday!

This just takes fighting over food to another level

10 pound of Chiken rice ..

What if that child was born there in the platform ??

Keep safe Dirk.. mavs fan forever

It looks like a short horror movie someone posted on alter I hope they didn’t steal that person idea

Maybe the child was born in the hole..
Also though a great sci-fi,it needed a better ending

Soooooooo, when the platform flies back up at mach 10… do all the plates just slam into the ceiling?

If so, that's classic 😂

Seems more like an honest look at communism rather than capitalism.

So the correct translation of El Hoyo will be The Hole, not the Platform. In case it helps making up new theories 😛 thx for the video

Did anyone understand why the last floor didn't get hot/cold as they kept the food?

Good movie! Great message! Trash ending!

watched this a couple days ago, and loved it. Reminded me a bit of "Cube", but that movie didn;t really have a message as The Platform does. No subtlety in The Platform's message though it just slaps you in the face with it repeatedly.
Or maybe it is simply the timing that makes the message so obvious…we're watching so much of this unfold in real time with people hoarding, and Trump and Senators saying that the elderly may have to sacrifice themselves for the good of the economy.
I loved the Don Quixote (a favourite high school read of mine) references throughout the film but felt they were there, just in case the film wasn't being clear enuff, but if your're familiar with Quixote, you got the message already for Pete's sake!!
I found that lack of subtlety to be the one problem with the film. I prefer the viewer to be credited with a modicum of intelligence. (which is also why I rarely click on "explained" channels, if you need an explanation for a piece of media, maybe you should watch it again instead of expecting to be spoon fed!!)
Regardless, as a review, rather than an 'explanation', I enjoyed your post very much.
Oh, and I would have requested an Indian mutton Byriani or a Sri Lankan Eggplant curry.

3:20 myriad? nice

Why doesn't everyone just jump on the platform, go all the way to the bottom and then get sent to level 0? Its not like they have anything to lose if they're just gonna die from starvation anyways

I definitely believe that the little girl was an halucination, and when you reach the bottom, you can't go deeper. He realized that the platform won't go up if someone step on it, and so he abandon the ship and die alone. The food was an interesting message, and to be honest I even expected a clean mecanism that flush away the platform anyway, that makes the administration never hear about any attent of message. I love that even if you do a good ratio, you cannot properly feed 666 people anyway. This means something very morbid: even if you share your part, just as showing the good behavior, ignoring if people will help you or not (I turn off tap water when I brush my teeth, even if it doesn't make a difference, I do my part, at least), there is still not enough food for everyone clearly. The message is incredibly dark: You are fucked.

They could've just put a dead body on the platform, they will definitely would've taken some action, if they did not know

Ugh I hate endings like these. So unsatisfying.