Day: February 21, 2025
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February 21, 2025
Thanks to Rachel D. Perez, a 2025 HMU Fellow in Ideas, for today’s post.
Cinema, at its most incisive, does not merely tell stories—it unmasks the world. El hoyo (The Platform, 2019), directed by Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, is one such film, a relentless interrogation of survival, power, and the human condition. Set within a vertical prison where food descends level by level, the film captures the raw brutality of artificial scarcity.
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