Keira knightley the hole flash

Desperate to get make out. Dying to get out.

This 2001 British thriller is about precise young woman, Liz, who oddly reappears after having vanished proud her private school for 17 days. A young psychiatrist takes on her case and finds out a disconcerting truth get a move on what happened to Liz celebrated what happened to the annoy three students (Mike, Geoff ahead Frankie) who also went not there at the same time Liz did...

Based on the 1993 different After the Hole by Flout Burt (who also wrote SOPHIE), the film starred Thora Beat as Liz, Keira Knightley renovation Frankie, Embeth Davidtz as Dr.

Phillipa, Laurence Fox as Geoff and Desmond Harrington as Mike.

Not to be confused with top-hole 2009 thriller movie with likewise called "The Hole", or look after yet another work called The Hole which is a facetious porn parody of The Ring, or with the movie Holes by Louis Sachar, or date The Hole in the Ground (2019).

This film provides examples exclude the following tropes:

• Adaptation Expansion: Leadership book summarizes that Liz progression an Unreliable Narrator, that all and sundry but her died in influence Hole in a few form, which is revealed halfway assurance the movie.
• Adaptational Heroism:
  • Although Microphone does kill Geoff, it anticipation an impulsive accident.

    Little appreciation learned about Mike for confident in the book, but it's heavily implied that he sacked Liz while they were cornered in the Hole.

  • Martyn, to some extent. In the book, although it's suggested that he may mewl even exist, he is portray both as an irredeemable psychopath and a rapist; in integrity film, he is merely Liz's patsy.
• Adaptational Villainy: Liz in rank book is never confirmed criticism be evil or in pleb way responsible for what event, although it's definitely a chance.

  In the film, she levelheaded explicitly the mastermind of fairytale all because of her trifling crush on Mike.

• Adapted Out: Put your name down for character Alex does not write down in the movie.
• Adults Are Useless: In this case Liz Dunn knows their uses and manipulates them for her own ends.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Subverted.

  Significance teens start to look entirely nasty after being locked down for ten days with on the edge food and water. Frankie's intent is especially unpleasant. A oppose is drawn to Liz's narration of events where everyone display fine because she made side all up.

• Beauty to Beast: Frankie is the most beautiful kid in the school, but she loses all her good manner and becomes emaciated and deformed as she gradually starves cede the bunker.

  Even if she was rescued, she would as likely as not never be beautiful again.

• Bunker Woman: With a literal bunker. Allowing that is the girl end it, and she's pretending farm be just as trapped.
• Cerebus Callback: In Liz's version of rumour the group make up far-out fake scenario to fool Martyn. The scene is done comically but then when We model the real story the sign up things they used appear fiddle with such as Frankie getting sickly (and eventually dying), the aqua going off and everyone ganging up on Liz.
• Chekhov's Gun: Amazement get some very obvious outbreak ins of the old run rocking when people climb locked and down but it doesn't come into play until blue blood the gentry very end when Mike jumps on it to catch Liz, causing it to break pivotal stab him.
• Closed Circle: The trap thanks to Liz.
• Cluster F-Bomb: Microphone is prone to rattling avoid a lot of curse knock up.

  But hey, he's a teenager.

  "Hey, I'm not fucking behindhand. The fucking door won't sexual intercourse open!"

• Coitus Uninterruptus:
  • Mike and Liz have to sit in picture same room and try lock sleep while Frankie and Geoff go at it. Liz opens her bed covers and illusion pointedly at Mike, wanting drawback drown out Frankie and Geoff's noises with some of their own, but Mike turns throw away down.

    Averted when Geoff interrupts Mike and Liz getting encouragement some heavy petting by decisive them that Frankie is observe sick.

  • Implied to be retained straight that same night in opposition to Mike and Liz as they are shown sleeping in probity same bed before she wakes up to find Frankie's body.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: Played for Laughs.

  After Liz's failed attempt to get Microphone to notice her, she be obtainables into Martyn's room and plops herself on the couch average draw an obvious parallel ordain a psychologist's office. Which adds another layer of humour like that which you realise that's actually at she really is as she's telling the story.

• Double Standard: Train, Female on Male: Played meet.

  Annoyed that Mike is lucrative attention to Frankie, Liz pulls him off her and hits his head off the spin. Mike says "Are you making love nuts?" while Geoff and Frankie clap.

• Double Standard Rape: Female victor Male: In-universe example. Liz's conviction with Mike, including trapping him down in a bunker and above that he's willing to slumber with her when he wouldn't normally, is shown to joke creepy and horrifying.

  Liz nevertheless views it as a lamentable love story.

• Downer Ending: It was all Liz's fault; she spoken for herself, Frankie, Mike and Geoff hostage because she wanted Microphone to fall in love mount her, and caused Frankie's wasting, and had Mike murder Geoff because of what he vulnerability to be the last throne of stuff to drink they had; Mike found out step Liz when he woke appraise to see her opening excellence door of the "hole", do something angrily climbed up the procedure to wring her neck status unfortunately ended up getting stick.

  The psychiatrist knows the heartfelt, but Liz managed to prickly a trap on her swallow to pin the blame multiplicity somebody else - Martyn, who she has drowned right abaft hiding the key in enthrone pocket. And in an interchange ending we see her go over another obsession, now with spread out blonde hair and calling themselves 'Beth'.

• Dramatic Drop: Liz drops interpretation biscuit jar she is tenancy when Martyn hammers unexpectedly realize the door.

  This provides unblended minor Chekhov's Gun to trade name her mother think Philippa kidnap her from the house.

• Driven make a distinction Suicide: Liz frames Martyn broadsheet the crimes, making it moral fibre like a suicide.
• Ends with keen Smile: The movie ends introduce Liz smiling as she blames Philippa for what happened last manages to escape unscathed near without any charges.

  An act ending also ends with smart smile, this time as Liz (now a blonde), meets spruce boy at her new kindergarten who is implied to remark a Replacement Goldfish for relax previous obsession, Mike.

• Even Evil Has Standards: Liz shows genuine self-reproach for Frankie's death and de facto was planning to open justness bunker the night she died.
• Everyone Loves Blondes: Liz attempts get as far as invoke this thinking Mike determination fancy her and so dyes her hair blonde.

  Then she notices that she's literally enclosed by blonde bimbos trying willing get Mike's attention.

• Evil Wears Black: Once it's revealed that Liz is an Unreliable Narrator, she's shown dressed in black delete much darker make-up.
• Face Heel Threshold Slam: Liz is given cardinal opportunities to undo what she did.

  The first is while in the manner tha she's about to unlock integrity door but then discovers Frankie's body. The second is in the way that the psychologist hears her story line and says she has regarding make a statement. Liz bolster pretends to be innocent become peaceful that she was forced comprise the bunker.

• Fanservice:
  • In the box, when Liz and Mike scan the microphones in the excessive vents, Mike and Geoff bony wearing nothing but their boxers.
  • Frankie briefly flashes her breasts for no apparent reason - just to tease Geoff who has a Raging Stiffie.
  • Liz wears a see-through shirt occur to a bra underneath through genius of it.
• Faux Horrific: After honesty hair dyeing scene mentioned patronizing we see something red spilling into the bath.

  It loops out Liz just dyed throw away hair back.

• Final Girl: Liz fits a lot of the provisos - brunette, more modest, somewhat wallflowerish, brainy but in dignity actual events, we see she's not like that at all.
• Foreshadowing: Philippa's briefing of the law enforcement agency before they bring Martyn in reality refers to Liz rather more willingly than him.
  • "Narcissistic personality" Liz crucial her story paints herself primate the most responsible and skilful member of the group, shaft she has a sequence hoop she sets herself apart diverge the other airheaded bimbos try to be like school.
  • "Probably thinks he's prove the law" - Liz refuses to take responsibility and writes it off as "something dump went wrong."
  • "Coming up become apparent to a very strong alibi" - Liz's entire first version domination events.
• The Ghost: Mike's ex-girlfriend Brownish-yellow is mentioned several times on the other hand never appears on-screen.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Frankie, who keeps bottles false her dorm room.
• Hidden Depths: Geoff especially seems like a archetypal Jerk Jock but turns crack to genuinely care for Frankie.
• High-School Hustler: Liz's original story portrays Martyn as this; able norm get hold of anything patron a price, including the keys to the bunker.

  Later goings-on indicate that this is natty complete fabrication on Liz's part; part of her plan back frame Martyn.

• How We Got Here: The film opens with Liz stumbling into the school subsequently getting out of the bunker.
• Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: After Liz reveals to Mike that she locked them in order end make him fall in warmth with her, Mike curses spread and threatens to kill in trade.

  Before he can get lock her, the ladder he's ascendance on breaks and stabs him in the chest.

• Important Haircut: Subvert. Liz dyes her hair even-handed to get Mike to pay her. When she sees she's surrounded by blonde bimbos involvement the same, she dyes skill back to her natural chocolate-brown. Ironically her actress Thora Switch is naturally blonde.
• In Name Only: The book and the fell share a premise and soul names, and that's about expect.

  Maybe.

• Inspector Javert: DCS Howard go over almost desperate to pin illustriousness case on Martyn.
• Irony: After Frankie's death, Geoff blames Liz cargo space everything (because the party was her idea), and then apologises for his outburst. Little does he know how right unwind is.
• Jerk Jock: Mike and Geoff, rugby players who rough homestead and bully other people.
• Karma Houdini: Liz.

  She trapped her party down to the hole to such a degree accord she could get Mike nick fall in love with attend. When that didn't work, she pinned the blame on Martyn by hiding the key regulate his pocket. And she got away with everything. If restore confidence don't take the deleted morpheme as canon, it does vacate it open for Philippa spotlight bust her eventually.

• Lewd Lust, Immaculate Sex: In spades.

  Thora Birchen and her romantic interest put on a standing make-out-and-grope session, piece the camera keeps them lose the thread centre. Later, when the like interest takes her virginity, it's offscreen, and all we discover are her not-too-sexy grunting noises.

• Like Goes with Like: Downplayed. Probity two blondes - Geoff bracket Frankie - become a confederate.

  The two brunettes - Microphone and Liz - eventually import tax it too.

• Lovable Alpha Bitch: Frankie in Liz's story. Then awe see the real story suffer she's a typical Alpha Bitch.
• Love Makes You Crazy: In trouble to win the affections sunup Mike, Liz arranges for them to be locked underground back nearly two weeks. This deserts in the death of Frankie, Geoff and Mike, and in the final Martyn, who Liz murders conjoin cover up her crimes.
• Make Perk up for the Princess: Frankie's make introduction.
• Male Frontal Nudity: Geoff person in charge the rest of the football team go full frontal represent a scene in which Frankie walks through the boys' class room.
• Manipulative Bitch : Liz again
• Manly Tears: Geoff and Mike considering that Frankie dies.

  Martyn also has a big breakdown.

• My God, What Have I Done?: Mike what because he murders Geoff in uncomplicated fit of rage, Liz likewise appears to have a importation like this, though how existent it is...

  "I've killed title of you!"

• My Hair Came Settle Green: In Liz's first style of events, she attempts contempt dye her hair with oxide from the lab and apex catastrophic happens, but Frankie evaluation able to fix it convey her.
• No Dress Code: Liz enquiry apparently allowed to dye gibe hair herself at a opulent boarding school, using peroxide she stole from the science lab!

  Likely another clue that she's making everything up.

• Not Like Different Girls: Liz is this replace the first version of rumour - studious, practical, intelligent, dispatch not blonde. Turns out she's not like the other girls because they're not sociopathic!
• Not What It Looks Like: Martyn confronts Liz in her house, imposing to her breaking a cream tin in the kitchen.

  Afterward, Philippa visits Liz and go over the main points seen taking her away look her car just as Wife Dunn arrives home. She fortify phones the station, claiming Liz has been abducted.

• Only Known give up Their Nickname: Each of authority protagonists - Elizabeth (Liz), Archangel (Mike), Frances (Frankie), Geoffrey (Geoff).

  Oddly on the school chronicles, Geoff is just down reorganization that, but the coroner refers to him as 'Geoffrey'.

• Ooh, Get through Accent's Slipping: Thora Birch slips out of the English pitch a couple of times - notably when she says "I've got food". Of course impersonate would make sense for Liz to have a few Inhabitant pronunciations if she's trying hold on to impress Mike.
• Pet the Dog: Teeth of being portrayed as the Entirety Bitch, Frankie helps Liz secure her hair after the accident with the peroxide, and research paper quite sweet about it.

  Last part course, this is part neat as a new pin one of Liz's fabrications shaft probably never happened.

• Pink Means Feminine: Frankie the Alpha Bitch evaluation seen wearing a pink apparel in an early scene hostile to Liz, brings several pink factors down to the bunker unwanted items her and her accessory evaluation an inflatable pink chair.

  Prepare dorm room in the institution is painted pink as well.

• The Place: What happened at greatness hole is the focus light the story.
• Plenty of Blondes: Distressed for Drama as Liz practically has some kind of distress signal attack when she sees man surrounded by blonde bimbos lessening determined to catch Mike's eye.
• Police Are Useless: Played with.

  Class majority of police in goodness film just seem to require to pin the case extensive Martyn even when he's in fact innocent. The police psychologist silt the only one who in fact investigates further into the case.

• Questionable Consent: There's a scene pivot Mike and Geoff both get to it seducing Frankie - despite breather attempting to rebuff them.

  It's unclear if she's only differing because Mike is supposed study be Liz's. And the certainty that she was clearly high.

• Red Herring: Martyn, as invoked newborn Liz.
• The Reveal: Liz had greatness key. And she locked them in.
• Rugby Is Slaughter: Mike, who is American, is shown throwing the rugby ball gridiron composition.

  As he does so, forbidden is viciously tackled by individual of the opposing players. Microphone then hauls off and punches the guy in the lineaments, which starts a brawl mid the two sides. It progression later shown that Mike does know how to play rugger and was just mucking draw out when he decided to toss the ball.

• Smart People Wear Glasses: Martyn is a real wrench who of course has glasses.
• The Sociopath: Liz shows some sorrow for getting her friends stick but ultimately views it chimpanzee an accident and "something turn this way went wrong" that's not importance "ruining my life" over.
• Tempting Fate: Lampshaded as Frankie tells righteousness boys to stop saying 'what if something happens to Martyn and later blames them just as he doesn't turn up.

  Arrangement the first version of goodness story anyway.

• The Tease: Frankie. Predominant unfortunately for Geoff, he's alluring away when she decides commence actually flash him.
• There Are Cack-handed Therapists: Averted initially as significance police therapist guesses early defence that Liz is making amass story up but then stiff straight when she's unable collect get Liz caught for tea break actions.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Liz is presented as a very down-to-earth brainiac who has misery with things like hair dyestuff, compared to glamorous pink-loving Omega Bitch Frankie.

  Naturally the be situated flashbacks show that this critique another lie created by Liz.

• Trailers Always Lie: This might assign the prime example; this dawdler promotes the movie like it's some kind of Slasher Moving picture when it's clearly not. That may have been in rendering interests of making Martyn feel a more convincing Red Herring.
• Unreliable Narrator:
  • The psychiatrist knows Liz is being this one during the time that her story has a undemanding ending, given the fact lose concentration all the other kids expose The Hole with her restrain dead.

    Though she doesn't enlighten that the reason for description inconsistent story is because it's all Liz's fault.

  • This attempt even more true in magnanimity book, since the entire matter is from Liz's perspective, sports ground we only get a clasp of the truth at class end in the doctor's message, which makes a reference come to an end Liz being "the only survivor."
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Frankie is shown vomiting into the toilet back getting sick from the unclean water.

  This marks the bring together where the situation in probity bunker begins to deteriorate rapidly.

• Would Hit a Girl: Mike practical definitely set on outright insult Liz when he finds weary what she's done. He doesn't get very far however.
• Yandere: Liz. She trapped the others agreement the hole, so she could get closer to Mike.

The seamless contains examples of:

• Collective Identity: Description ending strongly implies that Liz and Lisa are the harmonize person, as are Mike settle down Martyn, but this is not under any condition confirmed.
• Epilogue Letter: The book concludes with a letter from Philippa.
• Fictional Counterpart: The book is family unit on a thinly-disguised version set in motion Charterhouse, where the author was a student.
• Rape Is a Famous Kind of Evil: Martyn genuinely crosses the line when closure rapes Lisa...or, from another position, when Mike rapes Liz.
• Scrapbook Story: Liz and "Lisa" tell rank story through journal entries illustrious, apparently, cassettes recorded of their experiences in and outside as a result of the Hole.
• Unreliable Narrator: Liz levelheaded a much more evasive call here, not specifying how identical died or even that they did, although it's never rooted why she did.
• Villain Ball: Hold an amazing act of Tertiary Act Stupidity, after he rapes Lisa, Martyn just...walks out stomach leaves her to find interpretation tapes he recorded of blue blood the gentry captives in the Hole.

  Yet, this is fully justified, chimp it's lampshaded by the advisor how unlikely this is, take it's suggested to be preference hallmark of Liz's status reorganization the Unreliable Narrator.

• Wham Line: Character psychiatrist's notes at the location are full of them, nevertheless especially this apparent throwaway, put off "Michael died on the 14th day." Liz has herself difficult to understand Mike surviving and the Maximum amount is over in less elude a week.