Vertical prisons where the upper echelons eat meat and the lower echelons eat people... the full mystery of The Hunger Station explained!

It's a high concept, high setting, high satire, high closure Spanish film, reminiscent of Bong Joon-ho's Snow Country Train and reminiscent of Panic Squared, and many have made this film a discussion alongside The Moving Maze.
To start the analysis of The Hunger Station, one has to activate the drama mode right from the beginning.
Plot Review
The Hunger Station is set in a confined, elevated prison with criminals, both criminal and those who, like the protagonist, have volunteered to join this prison experiment, and each person who enters the prison is allowed to bring in one item.
The structure of this prison is of the vertical type, and last we knew the prison had 333 floors. On the outskirts of the top floor of the prison, there is a team of top chefs, and every day the team of chefs make a large table of rich dishes, some of which are still created according to the favourite food of the people in the prison.
Each day, the team of chefs place this table of dishes on level 0. This table of rich food then sinks down with the middle hovering table to the first level, and the first to enjoy it and uncontaminated is the first level, and so on, and the further down the hierarchy, the less food people get to eat, even turning into eating scraps, then bones left by others, and finally nothing left.
The prison also has an anti-stealing mechanism, so that if someone tries to hoard food, even if they steal a fruit, then this tier activates extremely hot or cold temperatures so that you have to throw away the food left behind.
Each day, the team of chefs place the table on level 0, and then the table's bounty sinks with the middle hovering table to the first level, the first to enjoy it and uncontaminated, and so on, the further down the hierarchy you go, the less food you get, even turning into eating scraps, then bones left by others, and finally nothing left.
The prison also has an anti-stealing mechanism, so that if someone tries to hoard food, even if they steal a fruit, then this tier activates extremely hot or cold temperatures so that you have to throw away the food left behind.
Each person will stay on their level for a while, then the prison stuns you through anaesthetic gas and places you on a random level, if you are lucky you will be on a more upper level and will be able to eat food or even have a gourmet meal, but if you are on a more lower level then you are basically waiting to die.
The uneven distribution of resources led to people on the upper floors being able to overeat, but the further down you went, the less and less food you would get, at about 50+ floors, there was basically no food, and by 70 or 80 floors, there was only cutlery left on the table, so people on the lower floors would either have to kill each other and eat each other, or see who could endure until they changed floors
The hero entered the prison experiment voluntarily, and he chose a book of Don Giovanni to bring into the prison.
The upper levels of the vertical prison eat flesh, the lower levels eat people... The full mystery of The Hunger Station is explained!
The film begins with the hero on the 48th floor, on the same level of the prison as a middle-aged man with a mantra of "obviousness", who is at first dismissive and somewhat pretentious, unwilling to eat leftover food, but eventually, after a few days, he can't resist his hunger and starts eating.
He discovers that the problem with the shortage of food in the prison is that it is not distributed evenly, so he starts to teach people to eat in moderation, but of course it is obvious that no one listens to him, everyone always tries to eat as much as possible first.
During this time, the hero also meets a woman coming down from above, who Hsien-Po says is looking for her son and will kill her roommate to increase her chances of meeting him, and follows the table down from the top, but so far has not been found.
Soon the hero and Hsien-Po change prison floors, tragically to the 171st floor, where the hero wakes up to find himself tied up by Hsien-Po, who is not tying him up because he is fighting for food, as there will be none left at the table on this floor.
The reason Hsien-Po ties him up is that after a week, people eventually outlive hunger and have to eat each other to survive. Hsien-Po has to use the knife he carries to cut off the non-lethal part of the man's flesh to feed both of them so that both of them can live.
Just as Hsien-Po strikes at the hero, a woman who has come down to look for her son arrives on the floor and the woman finishes off Hsien-Po and saves the hero.
The man was bleeding from his wounds and after a period of not eating, it was obvious that he was going to cool off if he didn't eat, while the woman was happily eating Hsien-Po.
The time for floor swapping comes again, this time the hero goes to the 33rd floor with a former prison interviewer who also volunteered for the prison experiment. She upholds the idea of spontaneous solidarity, helping the people on the next floor to distribute the food and asking them not to eat too much of it each time, but no one listens.
Eventually the male lead threatens the people downstairs that if they don't listen they will pull excrement down on every food so that no one can eat it, and that only has some effect.
Later, when the hero reaches the 202nd floor, the interviewer hangs himself straight away and the hero wakes up with his whole face squared off. Again, in a situation of unbearable hunger, the hero, abetted by a vision of a dead Hsien-Po, still decides to betray his conscience and soul by going down and eating the interviewer to save himself from surviving.
This time, he reaches the 6th floor, which is like heaven, and his roommate, a young black man, is still not satisfied with the 6th floor, but wants to reach the top and leave this hellhole.
He decides to follow the levitating table down to the bottom and then, by bouncing off the bottom, the table will eventually rise back up to the top so that he can be free.
So the hero and the black guy descend one level at a time and violently stop the people above the 50th level from eating the food, after which the people below the 50th level share the food equally to ensure that everyone gets to eat.
Halfway through the sinking they also meet a wise man who asks them to bring a full custard to deliver so that they can send a message to the manager, what this message means, which will be talked about later in the analysis.
They then encounter a woman looking for her son, but she has been killed by the prison staff and the hero and his men are badly wounded in the struggle.
In the end they decide to give the girl the milk jelly, the black boy dies from blood loss, and the hero eventually realises that the girl is in fact the very message being sent to the managers, so the hero decides to stay on the bottom of the next level of the 333rd, while the girl rushes up after the hovering table.
Eventually, though, they reach the bottom level, 333, and find an Asian girl who appears to be the woman who has been finding the child, but the woman was looking for her son and there are no children under the age of 16 in the prison.
Long before The Hunger Station, in 2008, Blade Runner 2049 director Denis Villeneuve made a short film called The Next Level, which also won Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival the following year.
The Next Level is about a group of people of various identities, gathered around a table eating a sumptuous meal, surrounded by waiters who keep bringing them new food, but shortly after eating the table and the people collapse and sink to the next level, followed by the waiters.
But as the people at the table eat more and more, the time gap between sinking and sinking becomes very short, and eventually the table and the people begin to sink endlessly, and the waiters are no longer able to serve the people at the table, suggesting the greed and ugliness of the people at the table.
Although there is no direct link between The Hunger Station and The Next Level, it appears that The Hunger Station was inspired by The Next Level.
For a work as highly set as Hunger Station, abstracted from real life, the film wants to try and extract meaning from a higher concept.
So how well does Hunger Station do it? To use a vertical metaphor from the film. I'd say Hunger Station is below Panic Square and Snowpiercer and above The Moving Maze.
It's true that the set-up and concept of The Hunger Station are well done, original and eye-catching enough, but the ideas the film is trying to convey are too straightforward and direct, with less so-called white space.
How can this be interpreted, for example, when the arguments of spontaneous solidarity and forced solidarity are directly discussed in the film, as well as the inequality of distribution from the top down, are brought to the forefront and put into each character's lines, when in fact the audience can find the irony and metaphor of the film even if the film doesn't explain or illustrate it, so why bother with it instead?