It triumphed in Sitges in 2019, taking a spectacular full of Best Film, New Director, Special Effects and Audience Award in the list of winners, it became distributed exclusively by Netflix As of March of the following year, and three years later, it remains not only one of the best exclusive science fiction films on the platform, but one of the best pieces of the genre made in Spain.
Is about ‘The hole‘, a little marvel whose message and aesthetics are still as current and relevant as they were at the time. Starting from an approach that since ‘Cube’ we have seen on more than one occasion (a stylized and abstract environment, with rigid and simple rules that the protagonists, often locked up without knowing why, must follow to survive), but never before in the Spanish cinema, proposes a dystopia between four walls that goes beyond a survival story. It’s a magnificent allegory about how “the real world” works.
A series of people are locked (voluntarily, or perhaps not) in a tower made up of dozens of levels. There are two people per level and, daily, a central table filled with food reaches from the upper levels. From it you can take what you want, or what the neighbors on the top floor have left. Every month, people change levels but don’t know if they will go higher or lower. Those who survive receive the prize of their choice.
And that’s it. Only with this very powerful idea, not only is a fast-paced survival story posed to us telling how people try to escape from different floors, but also reflects on the springs that move society: a mousetrap for which there is no escape, which invents hopeful tales as “hold on, the situation may improve” so that we continue to feed ourselves -literally- on the leftovers of the neighbor on the upper floor. A marvel with unforgettable interpretations (Trimagasi, immortal icon of the Spanish fantastic) and that is worth reviewing. Every month, when we change apartments.
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