The Hole Opening Analysis

We firstly see words shown by a flash light through the dark, going right over the words and light breaking through with beams more at certain points. This mass of dark and limited light makes our view very focused on these words and adds mystery as we cannot see much.
We can then hear a heavy panicked breathing which increases in pace and volume, but we still see nothing but the words being shone through, making us wonder who’s there.
When we first see a scene with light, the image is blurred and our sight and understanding of what is happening is blurred. We are looking up through the trees, but why?
We then see a road with papers hanging all over the trees along the way and flowers – suggesting that someone has died.
The road leads to a building in the distance which the girl is walking towards, but what is the building and why is she going there?
We then go to a lower shot of the road with a tracking shot – following the person who is breathing heavily, focusing on their feet and movement. They are wearing no shoes, are really dirty, and it looks like there may even be blood on their legs – which suggests that they have been hurt, kept hostage without necessary typical living conditions (water, food, clothing, washing facilities etc), they might be of poor health and have escaped from being kept hostage and their heavy breathing is because they are frantically trying to get away.
We also see on the road that one of the pieces of paper says ‘missing’ – so this may be the missing person, they may be presumed dead as we saw flowers left?
They are walking very unsteady and out of line like they’re going to fall over. If they have been deprived of food and are ill etc, this may be why.
We then see that it is a girl, with red hair - which makes us think of blood and that she has been hurt. She is not properly clothed and we can only tell that she is wearing an oversized coat (most likely not hers) and socks. Where are her clothes and shoes?
We can hear flies buzzing around her which really highlights just how dirty she has been and for how long.
Her hair is in front of her face and dark lighting is also used so that we can still not see what she looks like.
We get a close up shot of a ‘missing’ poster which is clear this time and shows 4 people – where are they? Is this girl one of them?
We then go to the building which is still quite unclear to what it is but looks like a church. Is she going for religious help in her desperate situation?
When we are inside we see desks and realise that it is a school, but it is obviously a very religious one as it looks like a church and even has stained glass windows. The religious building questions whether the story involves religious powers – good and evil, death, heaven and hell, ghosts, spiritual powers etc, and whether these play a part in what has happened to these people.
The long hallway which we are now in shows a very large and open space, we are all alone in this large space, isolated, no one else around which heightens our tension and makes us feel very vulnerable.
We see the girl walking again, but now she is attempting to run, there is a sense of urgency and we get the feeling that we’re running out of time. We are shown photos along the wall and one in particular is zoomed into to stand out, a photo of a girl that we have previously seen on the missing poster and who has the same hair length and colour of the girl we see running. This hints to us that this is the girl the film is about, the only character we have seen so far.
In the photo she looks very happy, smartly dressed and we can tell that she is a clever, talented, hard working student as she is holding a trophy for good achievement. But this is the complete opposite to the impression we get of the girl running, what has happened to her to cause so much change?
She stumbles towards the phone and dials 999 which we can tell as she presses one button three times, and her physical state and sense of urgency seems an emergency.
When she is asked which service she requires, there is a pause and then a loud unexpected scream, which is a shock to the system as everything previously was so quiet.
The outside of the building is then shown to intensify the loudness and show that it can be heard a long way away.
She falls to the floor, hugs her knees and rocks herself, saying quietly ‘help, help’. Something very disturbing has obviously happened for this girl to do that, and she seems that she may have some form of mental illness.
We are still left wondering what has happened, what is wrong as she doesn’t even say which service she needs – as she lays there and the scene fades, we wonder if she will get any help.