The Hole
Movie • 1999 • Drama
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In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island. Supposedly spread by cockroaches, the disease sends its victims into a psychosis where they act like the insects and eventually die. The Hole takes place in a crumbling apartment building. Its two protagonists live right above and below each other. The woman is on the lower floor, and the pipes above her apartment are leaking fiercely, threatening to destroy her food supply, not to mention her sanity. She calls a plumber to go check it out, and he accidentally pokes a hole through the floor of the man's apartment. The two have never met before, and they come into contact through the hole.
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Implied, we can say the cat got away safely, but there is a scene of a character calling for the cat and not finding them.
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Implied. At least two cats are seen in the market, then later there is a large pesticide spraying in the market, and one cat jumps out of a character's arms and runs away during this.
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During the pesticide spraying, the man brings the cat but it gets away from him and he leaves. He later calls for the cat and the cat is never seen again.
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Somewhat unresolved, but with possibility of hope through metaphor?
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Is there sexual content?
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Does a non-human character die?
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The female main character.
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Are there bugs?
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Cockroaches are mentioned but not shown.
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See comment about vomiting. I found it quite unpleasant and am not normally bothered by such things. Additionally, it rains throughout the entire movie if that noise is something that may affect you. One hour in, two characters eat dinner somewhat noisily (slurping, chewing).
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A man struggles to breathe while the area is being fumigated. He grabs a cat and runs away. Man is shown fine afterwards, fate of cat unknown.
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A man with the virus is removed from the building against his will, he fights back as they try to carry him out on a stretcher.
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Some sequences in the film do not make sense and are dreamlike, interspersed between regular narrative.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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A man goes into a hole in the wall. The hole itself is not shown, you only see him enter.
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Implied, characters are shown suffering symptoms of a disease that seems to transform people's mental state to a less human one.
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Is a male character ridiculed for crying?
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A man does cry extensively, no characters react to it.
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A man experiencing symptoms of the virus is taken out of the apartment kicking and screaming.
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Cigarette smoking, standard depiction.
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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The film is about an epidemic.
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
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The start of the film begins with multiple evacuation sirens.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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The virus has symptoms that can resemble mental illness, such as unnatural behavior like crawling on the ground and being afraid of light. One could say the two main characters are experiencing psychosis at the end of the film, it is up to interpretation.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Sort of. Exhibiting symptoms of the disease, and certainly when one character is brought outside yelling and struggling
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At minute 33, a woman screams offscreen.
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Does the black guy die first?
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Certainly the cat seems fearful when running away from the pesticide spraying.
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At about minute 17, a drunk man retches and throws up twice on screen. Audio and visual are quite graphic. Some of the vomit falls through a hole in the floor and gets on the woman who lives below’s hands and dresser.
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