in the final days of the year 1999 and most everyone in taiwan has died. a strange plague has ravished the island. supposedly spread by cockroaches and the disease sends its victims into a psychosis where they act like the insects. eventually and they die. the hole takes place in a crumbling apartment building (which is especially well created while kudos to the set designer. ). its two protagonists live right above and below each other. the woman is on the lower floor and and the pipes above her apartment are leaking fiercely and threatening to destroy her food supply and not to mention her sanity. she calls a plumber to go check it out and and he accidentally pokes a hole through the floor of the man apartment. the two have never met before and and they come into contact through the hole. the script is quite brilliant. few films are simultaneously this funny while remaining completely human and deeply exploring the human condition and especially feelings of loneliness and despair. tsai direction is simply beautiful. like a lot of other taiwanese directors and he uses a lot of long takes. but unlike and say and hou hsiao hsien and tsai doesn not overuse them. in fact and i do not know if i have ever seen them used better. theyre always effective and never tedious. it would be wrong to review this film without mentioning the musical numbers. yes and the hole is also a musical and and a great one and at that. in the film best scenes  which is saying something and considering how good all the other scenes are  the man imagines that the woman is a singer and almost a cabaret singer. these numbers are fully choreographed and often with backup dancers and singers. in a stroke of genius and tsai has these elaborately produced numbers take place in the crumbling building and the signs of apocalypse and decay unhidden. this provides both a sense of pathos and absurdity. the hole is a film that begs to be seen. it ought to be a cult classic and if nothing else. before i went to see this and i was told that it was a decent film and but probably tsai ming liang least good one. well and if that is true and i just cannot wait to see another one. positive . 
in the final days of the year 1999 and most everyone in taiwan has died. a strange plague has ravished the island. supposedly spread by cockroaches and the disease sends its victims into a psychosis where they act like the insects. eventually and they die. the hole takes place in a crumbling apartment building (which is especially well created while kudos to the set designer. ). its two protagonists live right above and below each other. the woman is on the lower floor and and the pipes above her apartment are leaking fiercely and threatening to destroy her food supply and not to mention her sanity. she calls a plumber to go check it out and and he accidentally pokes a hole through the floor of the man apartment. the two have never met before and and they come into contact through the hole. the script is quite brilliant. few films are simultaneously this funny while remaining completely human and deeply exploring the human condition and especially feelings of loneliness and despair. tsai direction is simply beautiful. like a lot of other taiwanese directors and he uses a lot of long takes. but unlike and say and hou hsiao hsien and tsai doesn not overuse them. in fact and i do not know if i have ever seen them used better. theyre always effective and never tedious. it would be wrong to review this film without mentioning the musical numbers. yes and the hole is also a musical and and a great one and at that. in the film best scenes  which is saying something and considering how good all the other scenes are  the man imagines that the woman is a singer and almost a cabaret singer. these numbers are fully choreographed and often with backup dancers and singers. in a stroke of genius and tsai has these elaborately produced numbers take place in the crumbling building and the signs of apocalypse and decay unhidden. this provides both a sense of pathos and absurdity. the hole is a film that begs to be seen. it ought to be a cult classic and if nothing else. before i went to see this and i was told that it was a decent film and but probably tsai ming liang least good one. well and if that is true and i just cannot wait to see another one. positive . ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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