"The Hole" is the posthumous work of the French director Jacques Baker. This is a film about a prison break. It was filmed in 1960, black and white, and 34 years later, "The Shawshank Redemption" was born. Compared with the latter, there seem to be not many people who know and have seen "The Hole". With no intention of stepping up or belittling anyone, Shaw is also a great one-shot, but I prefer this one by Jacques Baker. Compared with the superb technical means of modern film shooting, the first intuitive feeling that "The Hole" gave me was unpretentious. I haven't seen such a pure movie for a long time. The director has no preset position or values that he wants to forcefully export. There are no evil wardens, unreasonable guards and sodomy prisoners. There are no so-called good people and bad people. The director The entire prison escape process is reproduced in a near-documentary way, and the use of multiple long shots, the longest of which is 4 minutes long, will give the audience a strong sense of participation and experience. The film has no soundtrack, only the sounds of smashing the floor and digging holes. The director did not use any music to drive or exaggerate the atmosphere. The film also did not have any extra lighting. The lights in the prison corridors and the oil lamps made by the prisoners in the underground passages were used by the director to truly "record" the scene at that time through these natural light sources. So in my opinion, this is a simple and unpretentious movie, but it is full of technology. It is because of the director's skilled shooting techniques that he can express it to the audience with vivid lens language. The two most impressive shots: the first is when Roland and Manu entered the underground passage for the first time. The light source was only the oil lamp they made in their hands. They walked forward and gradually disappeared into the unknown. The other is the moment when the mirror turns around and sees a group of prison guards at the end of the film. Many of them probably have their hearts beating like me. Following the director's camera, the audience is fully integrated into it. This moment is too terrifying.
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