Friday, September 16, 2005

0007: MoviePhile 03: The Hole (After the Hole)
Let me start by saying that this is another one of those "wow, this movie is so good" posts. The difference is, I've loved this movie for a few years and I know it like the back of my hand. So here we go.

The Hole Stars Thora Birch and Keira Knightley as prep school girls who belong to one of the most popular groups in the school. Thora's character, Elizabeth, is the main character of the story and kind of remains neutral popularitywise, as she has a friend who no one else seems to like named Martyn. Martyn likes her, but she likes a new guy named Mike.

The movie starts out with Elizabeth telling a lie to a detective. It starts off honestly enough. She wants Mike to notice her, but he isn't, so she does all sorts of things to get him to notice her and fails. She approaches Martyn for help and he tells her of an abandoned bunker in some nearby woods. Perfect for a small party.

So Elizabeth and Keira's character, Frankie, decide to invite Mike and Frankie's friend Geoff for a three-night stay at said bunker. Well, three days pass and the kids leave the bunker and never return, or at least that's what Elizabeth first tells the detective.

Elizabeth has guilt left inside her from what really occurred, so she decides to confront the detective again, this time telling the truth.

The truth is, after three days, Mike still didn't care for Elizabeth. Elizabeth has the key to the bunker (which was locked), so she decides to tell them that Martyn had the key, and that he should be coming any hour. Well, several days pass and hunger sets in. Hunger turns to sickness, sickness turns into panic.

Frankie ends up puking her guts out just after Mike decides he likes Elizabeth enough to make out with her. Elizabeth can't tell the others that she has the key now that Frankie has died... so she tries to sneak out.

Geoff tries to sneak a Coke that he had been saving, and ends up getting murdered by Mike, who's in a frenzy. Elizabeth tries to make her escape that night, and fails to be unnoticed, Mike gets up in a frenzy and begins climbing the ladder, which breaks, and he ends up getting impaled, leaving Elizabeth as a free woman. Fun movie, too bad like 10 people have seen it in America. :)


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