Although ‘El Hoyo 2’ solved some unknowns from the first film, such as Who was the woman looking for her son in “El Hoyo 1”it also left other questions unanswered.
For this reason, the film’s director, Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia, explained the meaning of the ending, and highlighted some details that not everyone saw in the Netflix film.
What do the children mean in ‘El Hoyo 2’? The director revealed the meaning of the ending
At the end of “El Hoyo 2,” Perebuan (Milena Schmidt) enacts her dead cell plan and blocks her airway so the guards can put the body-collecting strap on her.
However, his strategy does not go as expected, because when he descends to level 333 meet a boyand decides to save him. But to achieve this he puts his life in danger, and ends up hitting his head and losing a lot of blood.
Although not specified, ‘El Hoyo 2’ implies that Perempuan dies in the process, while managing to send the little boy upwards.
However, this ending left a lot of doubt, especially regarding the importance of children in this part of the film. The director of “El Hoyo 2” himself explained:
In other words, Gaztelu-Urrutia explains that children are a reflection of what happens in the hole, since they play class in the race to get to the top, as it happens in prison.
Is the Hole a void? The end of “El Hoyo 2”
There are those who have interpreted the hole as limbo or purgatory. And there are elements of the film that suggest so.
For example, the fact that children can only be seen by those who cross certain thresholds, such as Perempúan. In fact, the director Falder Gaztelo-Urrita has made some statements about it.
Is everyone dead in ‘El Hoyo 2’?
There comes a point in “El Hoyo 2” (after Perebuan eats a piece of the painting) that the film makes us doubt whether the protagonist is really alive or whether, on the contrary, she is in the “afterlife”.
This idea was already discussed after the release of the original film. At the time Gaztelu-Urrutia gave his interpretation of the case of Goreng, its protagonist:
Since Perempuan meets Goreng in “The Hole 2”, this link would imply that Perempuan is also dead.
In fact, the director himself referred to this association in more detail and confessed that “El Hoyo 2” is made on purpose to provoke a discussion among the viewers:
Source: univision
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