Vertical Prison Where You Have 2 Minutes to Eat, What Remains is Lowered to Another Cell

The prison is a metaphor for our society. Those on the top gorge themselves and leave scraps for those at the bottom. Even if the places are reversed nothing changes because it is in our nature to be greedy and care little for those we consider to be beneath us.

The ending to this movie is pretty tragic once you realize that they did indeed send the dessert to the top. But the message wasn't received because the head chef thought they had sent it back due to a hair. It's heavily implied the girl was a hallucination and she was in fact the dessert. During the movie you can see a scene with said dessert being brought up, but again, they think it's sent back because of a hair. Making more of a realistic ending. Even if you try your hardest, sometimes you can't change anything. Because the people at the top are so far away it's nothing more than an inconvenience.

The reason the room didn't get hot when they kept the panacatta is because it was the girl's choice of food. If you took the food that you chose in interview, now only will the rooms not get hot or cold, but everyone in the prison would have enough to eat.

The bottom line is you can't "engineer" the perfect societal order. People need to CHOOSE to do the right thing... not of fear or duty, but of pure love.

What he didn't touch on was that each prisoner tells the intake staff their favorite food so it'd be practically impossible to not have all the food gone. And it wasnt mentioned that 333 floors with 2 people in each floor equaling 666...

I remember when I watched this movie, it has a really deep meaning but most of the people called it time waste but I really liked the message it conveyed about our society

No ones mentioned this but considering there are 333 floors and Trimagasi had been there for 10months (10 rotations) and the worst floor he had was 132, he is incredibly lucky. He was in the top 40% of floors 10 times in a row. Less then a 0.1% chance of that happening. So statistically, the odds of you getting a floor worse then 130 twice in a row and being forced to death by starvation is about 36%, and a 21.6% chance you'll be below 130 with no food for 3months straight, you'd rely purely on eating your new cell-mate each month. With 666 inmates a minimum of 200 a month would be almost guaranteed to starve purely from a mathematical standpoint unless they go out of their way to ensure you cant get that unlucky (which the movie pretty much specifies they dont)

Through its metaphor, the film argues that there is more than enough money, food and resources to go around, but over consumption inevitably leads to inequality, and the wealthy are not inclined, or have the incentive to share.

One of the best movies I've seen to date. The ending was not a let down like most movies that try to convey deep meaning, and the whole film had me on my toes.

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There was actually no child in there. Miharu keeps fighting to survive each day without actually thinking of getting to the top because her goal is different from that of the others in there. The lack in there is not her essential problem cos she pursues a dream which for her is more worthy than getting to the topmost class of the economy or even being in charge of the hierarchy; though her dream seem unrealistic. She has created her own goal and it has helped her not to think of the common problem others in that system are facing. She's probably the only one who has accessed all the floors yet she never desires getting to the top because she keeps chasing a goal she'll never achieve till she dies. Remember no child was in there, the child was non-existent, so she was never gonna find any child in there. She ended up making some people (Goreng and Baharat) believe there is something to seek for rather than going to the top of that economic chain. She is the religious members of the society. Goreng and Baharat are men of good will who ends up as converts who came to believe there is fulfilment in something else they only believed exist rather than seeking to gain economic power and influence by joining the platform up.

I saw this film during confinement, quite an experience, 100% recommended. What I think: - the child never existed - the dessert actually came up with a hair, and the cooks misinterpreted the message - the main character accomplished his mission but in the end his death is in vain because nothing is going to change - quite a fan of the theory saying that killing his partner allows you to reach higher floors the following month

Man I always wondered why would anyone watch these to essentially spoil movies but I can't believe I found this gem of a movie. I watch the first portion and once intrigued I went to watch it. Thanks to your channel. Apparently , Netflix hasn't recommended this to me.

This movie is REALLY good. It's so simplistic yet perfect.

The worst part is.. this is real life but instead of floors you have money

by the time Goreng was in level 171 there's no food left, even when they were at level 48 the food was already looking like scraps. If there are 333 levels and assuming that around level 60 or 70, the food is already completely gone- that leaves like 80% of the rest of the levels to either cannibalize each other, tough it out by only drinking water, or eating whatever they brought it for a month. Trimagasi was technically correct when he said that level 48 was in the middle levels, that middle levels of those that can eat.

This is actually a great thought-provoking movie. Definitely worth watching the full film!

Something to keep in mind, the table has everyone’s favorite meal. There is enough food. At some point people are eating other peoples meals they know isn’t meant for them.

why the hell is a kitchen knife censored? we are living in a dystopian time line

Her's my understanding of this movie which is obviously an allegory and not to take 1st degree : The prison is our society and the plateform is our ressources (money, food, whatever) Our economical system makes us rise or go down the floors Tramagazi represent the people who accept the system how it is and is ready to do anything to survive, even harm other people. He don't want to rise or go down, just to stay alive. He stand for himself because in his mind, all humans are selfish animals who would do the same. HE may know he is a bad person, but thinking everybody is like that gives him good conscience. His Brought object is a knife, symbol of treason and being ready to backstab people in his way. Baharat represent the believer who think he can climb those floors by the only strenght of his will, but people are mean and will prevent his success. HE represent the ambitious who think society will grant him something if he work hard enough. His brought object is a rope, symbol of his will to "climb" society. Imogiri stand for the people who work for the establishment, keeping quiet while having a confortable life. She is an insider who knows that the system is tricked to give more to some and less to others, while there is more than enough for everybody. But her sickness gave her an existential crisis and now she want to change people but her actions resumed to speak out flat advices that nobody listen to. She have a dog because she knows people too much and prefer the company of an animal who is not cursed with human greediness. Miharu represent the parents who are ready to sacrifice themselves for their child. They would go to extreme lenght to ensure their child is safe, even sacrificing themselves. I saw the movie long ago I don't quite remember what she brought with her. Maybe it was her child, in this case it just reinforce this idea of this parent ready to go the depth of hell if needed, with and for their child. Goreng is this random guy who would like to change society, but is completely overwhelmed by it and have no choice but to do what it force it to. At some point he find the courage and the support try something. When he find Miharu;s child, he realize that all this struggle for survival is ridiculous, and any attempt of changing society is pointless, because it is an automated system, a tower of beton, cold and soulless, that nobody is able to change. By the way, his brought object is Don Quichotte, which is the story of an utopist who think he can change society for the better Sending the child to the top is just a bottle in the sea, you realize your time is over and your efforts gave no results, but you place all your hope in your child, hoping that he will be accepted up there, for a better life than you had. The ending is really dark, it's not about making people up there realize what's going on (because again, it's not first degree), it's about trying to save the child, at least, since you cannot save anybody else, let alone yourself.