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El hoyo (2019)
Ham-fisted (No Pun Intended)
The Platform is what happens when someone takes an excellent idea for a short story or short film, and masticates it into a 90 minute drone. Such a wonderful skeleton, not a shockingly unique concept, but new enough to be interesting, and integrally at the start, it seems to have something to say.
The viewer hears the message, and thinks "ah, good point" and then it just... doesn't end. The movie keeps going. Rehashing the same basic theory of shared resources and human nature, not growing, nor refining the concepts, only chewing the fat of the very idea. I expected this movie to be wrapping up its third act at least 3 times before the damn thing actually ended.
Subtlety? Doesn't exist. Dimensional Characters? Certainly not. Loaded representations of races (such as the angry black man, the silent Asian woman)? Sure.
Overall this is a movie which had a scrap of an idea, and mashed it to a useless paste. Non-nutritious, and belabouring at best.
Escape from Tomorrow (2013)
Wish I Could Give it Zero Stars
A rambling, whining, nonsensical, egotrip of a movie. Agonisingly obvious, and filled with faux-deep 'statements' on humanity that mainly consist of fatphobic ableism. This movie would be played on repeat in my personal hell.