The Platform 2 has topped the charts on Netflix in the non-English film category. The Spanish movie Starring Milena Smit and Hovik Keuchkerian was released on October 4, and in the last week it has garnered more than 19 million views. The science fiction horror is the sequel of the pre-pandemic movie “The Platform,” starring Ivan Massague and Alexandra Masangkay.
The movie is set in a high-tech prison where the inmates are shuffled on a monthly basis among the 333 floors. A platform delivers food for them, which means that the inmates in the deeper levels had no food as the upper inmates were taking up all the food they could, thus The inmates resort to cannibalism and violence.
The first movie was a direct analogy of the rampant calassism in society. The second movie, however, has more religious undertones as we follow our protagonist pitted against the zealot factions of the inmates who believe in rationing the food.
While many have considered it to be arguably weaker than the first one, the movie still manages to catch the eyes of the viewers. pitted against movies like Trouble and GOAT—The Greatest of All Time—it has outperformed its competition by quite a margin. As it is mentioned, many consider the idea a rebrand of the previous movie. It is to be seen whether these numbers drop in the upcoming weeks.