Warning! This post contains spoilers for The Platform 2.
Although platform 2 Revolving primarily around a new set of characters, it doesn’t shy away from featuring some familiar faces from the original film. Directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, the Spanish thriller, The platformperformed incredibly well both commercially and critically when it landed on Netflix in 2019. Its success encouraged the streamer to score its sequel. platform 2which takes place in the same dystopian setting as its predecessor, but attempts to expand the overall story established in the original film.
In its first moments, platform 2 focuses on two characters, Perempuan and Zamiatin, who were not part of the cast of the first film. However, as his story progresses, platform 2 It marks the return of many characters from the 2019 film. While some of these characters become crucial drivers of the sequel’s narrative, others appear in smaller capacities towards platform 2The ending, adding a layer of intrigue to the franchise’s enigmatic narrative.
6 goreng
Performed by Iván Massagué.
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Played by Iván Massagué, Goreng is the main character of The platformwho enters the pit to obtain a diploma. He agrees to spend six months in jail in exchange for a diploma and considers his stay in the vertical prison a win-win situation. According to him, staying in prison will not only help him learn some valuable lessons, but will also allow him to quit smoking for good. Unlike many other prisoners, who choose to carry weapons into the pit, Goreng carries that of Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote.
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it apparently reconfigures Goreng’s story by establishing that he did not come to the pit to obtain a diploma.
In platform 2Goreng appears in the final arc, where the film first introduces his descent to the bottom of the well with the young woman from the first film. The sequel then cuts to a confusing mid-credits scene in which its main character, Perempuan, somehow recognizes Goreng and hugs him when he sees him at the bottom of the well. Although the film does not delve into the details of their relationship before they entered the well, it seems likely that Goreng was Perempuan’s boyfriend before she entered the vertical prison.
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Platform 2 reveals that the prisoners in its core system are divided into two groups, loyalists and barbarians, who follow opposing philosophies.
Perempuan’s backstory in platform 2 reveals that she came to the vertical prison to learn to forgive herself for being responsible for the death of her boyfriend’s son. The fact that she knows Goreng suggests that he was her boyfriend. If this narrative connection between the two films is true, platform 2 it apparently reconfigures Goreng’s story by establishing that he did not come to the pit to obtain a diploma. Like Perempuan, he too sought peace and redemption after his son’s death.
5 Trimagasi
Played by Zorion Eguileor.
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Trimagasi is portrayed as one of the main antagonists in The platform. Although he initially acts friendly towards Goreng and helps him adapt to the vertical prison environment by encouraging him to eat, he becomes his greatest enemy when they end up in one of the lower levels of the prison. To ensure his survival, Trimagasi ties Goreng to his bed and resorts to cannibalism to survive. His backstory reveals that he ended up in Vertical Prison because he accidentally killed a man after throwing his TV out the window.
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In the film’s opening moments, he also hints at his evil tendencies by telling Goreng that he and his former cellmate cannibalized another prisoner to support themselves. Miharu later kills Trimagasi before she and Goreng consume his flesh to survive. Given how Trimagasi dies in the original film, his appearance in platform 2 apparently suggesting that it is the prequel to the original film. Although platform 2The timeline is not explicitly mentioned, it appears to take place about a year before the events of the first film.
4Miharu
Performed by Alexandra Masangkay
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In The platformMiharu is presented as a character who drops to level 333 every month to search for her son. However, the ending of the film later suggests that Miharu was only going to the well because she knew that the Authority was leaving a child at the lowest level as part of their social experiment. platform 2 It portrays her in a different light, where she is one of the members of the Authority. She and another man are apparently responsible for deciding which child will be sent to the bottom of the well.
Since each level of the pit can accommodate two people in
The platform
There are a total of 666 inmates in the vertical prison. The number “666” is apparently a reference to the ”
number of the beast
” from the Book of Revelation (Revelation 13:18), which suggests how prison serves as a self-imposed hell for many inmates.
From platform 2 Serving as a prequel, this revelation suggests that Miharu was once part of the Authority before she too ended up in the vertical prison. As a former member of the Authority, he knew that children were left alone in the lowest level of the well. Therefore, to ensure that they were well fed, he traveled to level 333 in The platform.
3 Baharat
Performed by Emilio Buale.
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Emilio Buale’s Baharat is among the key players The platform who help Goreng send “the message” to the Authority. He and Goreng protect the panna cotta to make sure it reaches the upper level, but then send the girl they find to level 333. In the original film, Baharat also carries a rope with him, hoping to level up when someone from above it does not ascend. Solidarity in the vertical prison. Although its appearance does not last long in platform 2seems to have the same moral code and principles and hopes to achieve more unity among all the prisoners.
2 anonymous prisoners with Down syndrome
Performed by Gorka Zufiaurre.
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When Goreng and Baharat go down to the bottom of the well in The platform and distribute an equal amount of food to all the inmates, they come across an anonymous inmate with Down syndrome. In platform 2Perempuan and Sahabat come across the same prisoner when they land on Level 55. Although Perempuan and Sahabat consider taking the prisoner with them when they plan to descend further, Dagin Babi and his army reach the level before they can leave.
1 imoguiri
Performed by Antonia San Juan.
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Imoguiri is portrayed as a former member of the Authority in The platform who voluntarily ends up in the well after being diagnosed with cancer. In the first film, she continues to deny that there are children in the well when Miharu claims to be looking for her daughter there. This establishes that, despite being a member of the Authority, he knows little about the full scale of the central social experiment. In platform 2Imoguiri only appears briefly as an interviewer, which again establishes the film as The platformThe prequel.
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The platform
The Platform is a Spanish science fiction film that takes place in a vertical prison where the prisoners on the upper levels get the most food and those on the lower levels starve. The 2019 dystopian thriller was released on Netflix to worldwide success.
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8.5/10 platform 2
This sequel to the dystopian thriller expands the universe of The Platform, following the survivors and new participants who now deal with a revamped version of the vertical self-management system, now with more sinister and complex machinations.
