Again&Again - The Platform

Vertical prison. Two inmates per cell. No windows or doors, no guards. Just a hole in the middle where a platform descends once a day with food. It starts full on the ground floor, enough for everyone. It stops first at the inmates on the first level. They have a few minutes to eat. Then it goes down to the next level. If you keep food after the platform descends, the temperature either rises (until you burn) or drops (until you freeze).

The food left on the platform depends on all the floors above you. There are several hundred floors. Every month, they shuffle the inmates - they can move them up or down even further. If you're somewhere in the middle, it's just gross - you eat someone else's leftovers, crushed, spit out... but if you're at the bottom, not even crumbs reach you... Everyone hates those above them and despises those below them.

In these conditions, can you keep your humanity? ...or more precisely, how long can you keep it? Is it so hard to think of others, to give in a little and make sure everyone is okay? Or are you the only important one?

A brutal film... not because of the horrifying scenes, but because of the absurd situation that provokes such realistic reactions... how people change... it's chilling... and frightening because it's so real.

"Favorite movie" and "movie I'll watch again and again" are generally the same thing.