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The Hole (2001)

The Hole poster

The Hole (2001)

Overview

Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.


Starring Cast


Rating & Dimensions

Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional

Political: Center
Diversity: Low
LGBTQ: Negative
Gender Swap: Yes

Viewer Rating
5.9

Overview

Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.


Starring Cast

Detailed Bias Analysis

Analyzing...
Leans Traditional

Primary

The film's central conflict revolves around individual psychological manipulation and moral breakdown, rather than a direct engagement with political ideologies or a call for a specific political solution. While class dynamics are present, they are secondary to the exploration of human nature under duress.

The movie features a predominantly white cast with no apparent intentional diversity-driven casting or race/gender swaps of traditional roles. Its narrative, a psychological thriller, does not critically portray traditional identities or incorporate explicit DEI themes, focusing instead on individual character dynamics and suspense.

Secondary

The film features a character, Martyn, whose manipulative actions are driven by a strong, queer-coded obsession. This portrayal links queer desire to villainy and destructive outcomes, contributing to a negative overall impact on LGBTQ+ themes.

The film adaptation alters the gender of two significant characters from Guy Burt's novel "After the Hole." Martin, a male character in the book, is portrayed as female (Keira Knightley), and Frankie, a female character in the book, is portrayed as male (Desmond Harrington).

The film "The Hole" does not feature any identifiable transsexual characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a psychological thriller involving a group of students trapped in a bunker, with no elements related to transgender identity or experiences present in the storyline.

The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.

The film "The Hole" (2001) is an adaptation of Guy Burt's novel "After the Hole." A review of the main characters and their portrayals in the film against their descriptions or implied races in the source material reveals no instances where a character's race was changed.


Viewer Rating Breakdown

5.9

Viewer Rating

Combines user and critic ratings from four sources

User Ratings

IMDB logo
6.2
The Movie Database logo
6.2

Critic Ratings

Rotten Tomatoes logo
5.3
Metacritic logo
N/A

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