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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, first up is The Platform (2019), a Spanish thriller about a gigantic vertical prison that lowers food down to the inmates, who live on platforms at varying elevations. The inmates higher up get more food, and the ones lower down starve. Class consciousness begins to brew among the lower denizens, and they begin a rebellion. Pretty much Snowpiercer (2013), but vertical. Critics call it communist propaganda, which is fine by me. It is the only notable work to date of director Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia; he is a one-hit wonder so far.
Next is The Parent Trap (1998), a family comedy starring Lindsay Lohan as a pair of identical twins reunited at a summer camp after a long separation due to their parents’ divorce. Once they learn the truth, they switch places and plot for their parents to get back together. This movie is really popular on Letterboxd for some reason. Okay, we’ll check it out. Director Nancy Meyers has a bunch of rom-coms to her name, including The Holiday (2006) and What Women Want (2000).
We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:
https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies
Be there, comrades!
Letterboxd:
- The Platform: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-platform/
- The Parent Trap: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-parent-trap-1998/
Doesthedogdie.com links:
- The Platform: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/21606
- The Parent Trap: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12086
CWs for The Platform:
- Death of dog.
- Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
- Child abandonment.
- Woman brutalized for spectacle.
- Gaslighting.
- Child abuse.
- Smoking.
- Drug addiction.
- Deaths of animals.
- Cruelty to animals.
- Carnism.
- Animal corpses.
- Sad animal.
- Death of pet.
- Bugs.
- Someone is drugged.
- Mention of sexual assault.
- Someone is physically restrained.
- Attempted sexual assault. It doesn’t get very far and the perpetrator is immediately killed by the victim.
- Someone’s mouth is covered.
- Cutting of flesh.
- Hand damage.
- Throat mutilation.
- Someone struggles to breathe.
- Decapitation.
- Cannibalism.
- Choking.
- Someone is burned alive.
- Body horror.
- Amputation.
- Squashed head.
- Hanging.
- Asphyxiation.
- Unconsciousness.
- Broken bones.
- Torture.
- Someone falls to their death.
- Stabbing.
- Blood and gore.
- Suicide.
- Death of parent.
- Ghosts.
- Vomiting.
- Someone wets themselves.
- Someone is eaten.
- On-screen pooping.
- Spitting.
- Audio gore.
- Incarceration.
- Cancer.
- Mental illness.
- Self-harm.
- Violent mentally-ill person.
- Dissociation.
- Suicide attempt.
- Unstable reality.
- Meltdown.
- Misophonia.
- Anxiety attacks.
- Suicidal ideation.
- Claustrophobia.
- PTSD.
- Sudden loud noises.
- Shaky cam.
- Screaming.
- Profanity.
- Flashing lights.
- Racial slurs.
- Discussion of religion.
- Nudity.
- Objectification of female characters.
- Sex.
- Terminal illness.
- Chronic illness.
CWs for The Parent Trap:
- Child abandonment.
- Alcohol abuse.
- Bugs.
- Cutting of flesh.
- Natural bodies of water.
- Mannequins.
- Needles.
- Claustrophobia.
- Screaming.
- Someone is watched without their knowledge.
- Age-gap romance.
- Honking horns.
Links to movies:
- The Platform: https://tankie.tube/w/42n8EmY4GhuM4ZmNFMQAMR
- The Parent Trap: https://tankie.tube/w/o3xFV98n1xvbUM6iZxJ4BV
Don't watch Platform 2, it's a shitshow. I honestly have no idea what the point of the sequel was.
Yeah I couldn't figure it out either. My best guess is it's a critique of religion, specifically Catholicism, and rigid adherence to old laws. The first one was focused on political systems, especially why communism requires revolution, so it makes sense they'd look at other types of human organizing.