Assignment 4 reflection 5
It was quite interesting that Robin told the story first and then show us the clips. I should admire that everyone has different skills to tell a story so that’s the difference between script writers. The script is important for the actor to understand the acting. But there are some performance would not be mentioned on the script. For example, the car chase scene in script maybe just like “ the BMW chasing the Ferrari” but in actual shooting , the cinematographer and director , also the actor should make a lot effort on this.
Last year, I did a short film with my classmate for school project. I did the script, the shot list, shooting schedule and to direct. During that time, I figure out the relationship between the director and actor. And also how the script work and it doesn’t work in the film. You see, there will come out some new idea which is not planning. It is interesting things like that happened.
Recently, I watched The Platform. It is a Spanish sci-fi thriller released in 2019. It has nothing to do with the platform of the train and the platform of the car, but is similar to the Snowpiercer which can be understood as a vertical version of the Snowpiercer.
The prison pit in “hunger platform” has 333 floors. There are no exits, just four gray walls, and a central patio provides a few square meters of space for a platform filled with food to move vertically from the top floor to the bottom, where residents eat leftovers from the upper floors.
In theory, there would be enough food for each layer if it were distributed equally. But by nature, the result is that the people at the top eat too much, and the food gets less and less as they go down. The people at the bottom have no food at all, so they can only eat and kill each other.
The above is similar to snowpiercer, but there are also differences. “Snowpiercer” has a fixed class of people, while “hunger platform” has a rotating class. The prison pit releases narcotics every other month, and people are rotated to different floors while asleep.
Of course, this is the director and the screenwriter set up to be a metaphor for something, a real problem — class division, class mobility, wealth inequality, and so on. Behind the thriller science fiction film, there is the human nature of selfish indifference and greed.
For this kind of movie with space sense and limitation, I think we can conduct in-depth research