A Second Helping of The Platform Isn’t as Tasty as the First

Food for thought is a precious commodity in the idea-famished content landfill, which is probably one reason Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s dystopian allegory The Platform took off a few years ago. Commencing from an ingeniously simple and cruel science-fiction conceit, the Spanish thriller took place entirely within a futuristic prison — a tower of sparsely dressed, two-person cells euphemistically dubbed a”Vertical Self-Management Center,” but colloquially referred to as The Pit by its unlucky occupants.