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Placement in the hole is not really random, notice how whenever somebody kills, they get placed higher next month. For example Miharu ALWAYS descends from above, and she always kills a lot of people. She probably knows that, and thats why she lets Goreng finish off Trimagasi.

I saw a theory where I was just flustered about. There is a scene where the head chef is holding the Panna Cotta and is raging about a hair on the Panna Cotta. He is trying to match the hair to the hair one of his sous chefs, but it does not match. That theory believes that the scene is out of order and actually happens after the Panna Cotta is sent back. It states that the girl is not real and only symbolic. The Panna Cotta is not eaten but sent back to level 0 with the hair stuck on it. Level 0 is so out of touch with what is happening below them that they don't see the Panna Cotta as a message but just as 'not good enough'. And so the system never changes.

My interpretation of the scene with the pana cotta was that it made it's way back to the surface and level 0 freaked out and thought the reason it was left uneaten was because there was a hair, not because it was a message. Completely unaware of the reality.

Goreng changes so much throughout the film because of who his cellmate is. He's with Trimagasi: he becomes selfish, standing on the platform and spitting out uneaten food. He's with Imougiri: he becomes giving again, rationing out food and giving up his bed for Miharu. He's with Baharat: he becomes heroic, giving up his whole life to save one girl from the depths of the hole and help try and change the system forever. Under circumstances of survival, we are all the same person.

Props to the dude who said his favourite food was a whole ass wedding cake

It's hard too believe that someone who created a incredibly well written and edited review off a amazing film, also created shrek has swag

"What's your favorite food?" _Enough to cater 3 courses for 1500 people._

Notice how his first cellmate says "eat me and become me" and then he eats his book, eventually becoming his character?

"Oh my God she got a B, let's kill her" that's like the best line ever

Whenever she killed herself you could also see it as she realized the company she worked for lied to her. She only knew of 200 levels but they ended up right at 202, that may have been the final thing that broke her after her dog died.

In 58:53 when Trimagasi is describing different parts of Imoguiri, I’m pretty sure he isn’t referring to her as a cow but as a pig, as someone from Spain and the northern part “manitas” (apparently trotters) is usually used for the pig’s hooves cooked rather than cow’s hooves being cooked

7:54 About this translation: in spanish Trimagasi uses the formal conjugations of verbs as most older folks do. The thing he uses in spanish when refering to those below in this scene is imperativo conjugation; which is meant to be used to make an order/command on others (in this case to Goreng). When he screams that the above people won't answer to him; he uses subjuntivo conjugation, which is meant to be used as opinionated or based on feelings. This small detail makes us know Trimagasi feels inferior and unsure about the above people's reaction while he feels absolute power over those under him.

The numbers 202 has never been so scary and heart crushing until now

what you didnt know is that pyrocynical survived the hole and was rewarded his diploma in philosophy

Goreng throwing Baharat an apple bears significance, to throw an apple at a someone is symbolic of a declaration of love or trust, which foreshadows Goreng joining him in his journey.

This film is so intelligently crafted that one can’t deny it’s a masterpiece in psychological dramas.

The hole sounds like an extreme Mr Beast challenge he would do after going completely insane

The ending is in the middle of the movie. As pointed out by another commenter, 'the pana cotta made it back to the top and the head chef is yelling at all the other chefs because there's a hair in it. So basically, they don't realize the message the pana cotta is supposed to be; the head chef thinks everyone rejected it because it was "spoiled" with the hair.'

The Circle was actually made by the same people behind the internet show The Vault, which I personally enjoyed very much. While I don’t like The Circle, I find it inspiring the people who clearly cared about The Vault managed to get a movie of their own.

Honestly for me I have to be kinda hand held to really enjoy the depth of a movie sometimes. And watching this movie and then your review just really enhanced the experience for me. I don't think I've ever been this immersed in one of your vids as much as this one. This is an amazing movie and you had an amazing review of it. This longer form content is pretty awesome.

Imagine asking someone what's their favourite food and they tell you "apple"

The real message of the film is that everyone wants to park their car in the shade, but nobody wants to plant a tree.

I feel like the ending being a dream Goreng is having as he bleeds out makes the most sense. After watching his...friend(?) Miharu die horribly and his genuine attempt at bringing change fail, it's only natural he would imagine inexplicably finding the mythical child Trimagasi probably made up, miraculously unharmed, and manage to save her all while accomplishing his goal of sending a message and bringing change to the system. It's why the room doesn't change temperature even though they keep the Penna Cotte. It's why he has his book even though we never see him bring it with him. It's why there's an empty void at the end. It even explains there being 333 floors. After all that he's done (and based on him not feeling worthy of ascending with the child into the suspiciously heavenly light) Goreng probably feels convinced he's going to hell. I think beyond the obvious reasons (like wanting to leave it open to interpretation) that this is why we never see what happens when and if the child reaches floor 0. Because Goreng doesn't know what would happen and probably dies before he can even begin to imagine it.

it also simulates the dynamic for the lower class turning against itself, with how cell mates on low floors turn against each other

The quality of this video is staggering. Pyro seems to have found his zone doing long-form reviews, and boy is he dishing out some top-notch content. Sure, the time between videos is unusually long, but it's almost worth the wait when the quality is this good.

One thing I find interesting is how Trimigasi says “you ate me, I am a part of you” which carries on throughout the entire film. From him eating Imoguri and seeing her, to the child eating the Panna Cotta and becoming the message, and Goreng eating the page from the story and embodying the protagonist.

noooo you skipped the “i’ll just slit his stomach and eat whatever you gave him” scene

I'm honestly amazed about how good this video was and how insane this movie is

i kind of like the interpretation that the girl's favourite food is panna cotta, which is why the room didn't heat up/cool down when they kept it there. this implies that if everyone just took their own favourite foods, the food provided for them, everyone would have enough to eat.

Pyro: *creates an intelligent and analytical review of a highly interpretative movie* Also Pyro: *”big chungus birthday cake”*

I know that Pyro tried his best to make this video as entertaining and light hearted despite such theme of a movie. But this movie *haunts* me. After finishing it the first time (and probably the last), I genuinely cannot watch this video again. And I love Pyro's videos, always so many cuts and edits, memes through out that it's entertaining every watch. But this, my God. I'm sick from the thought of this movie alone. A fantastic show that I will never watch again. I love it.

The fact is everyone was asked what their favorite food is so if everyone just took only what they asked for, everyone will get something to eat but nope selfishness is such a strong human characteristic

It’s so high quality that he didn’t make a fortnite joke every 5 minutes

i was 50 minutes in when i realized this isn't a 20 minute video

Watching this 2 years late, I have literally never even heard of storyfire lmao

honestly i find tbe message is more that really, the hole seperates the top prisoners from the middle from the bottom, but realistically, there's floor 0 who supplies the food, floor 1 who eats it, and then there's scraps

Sure Pyro’s good at the commentary business but this is where he shines.

Can we just pretend cube two didn't exist and this is cube two.

1:16:28 Song is Apocalyptica - Path vol. 1

"i cant scat upwards" best quote of all time

Is your girl: -Balding -Obviously hungry -Spanish? Then that’s not your girl! That’s Trimagasi!

Holy shit I understand it. Everyone chose their own food. That means everyone all had enough to eat if they would only eat what they themselves chose, and this was too with the fact you have a partner, so in case you get bored of your food, you can have their's. But I think there’s more. The dish at the end didn’t make the room hot or cold... why? Because the little girl chose the dish. That was what she liked. I think taking you own dish rewards no punishment. It speaks to the fact that a lot of humans aren’t considerate, and ruin themselves with the short term. They literally have the food they chose. Everyone can access what they want every single day. But yet gluttony in the fear of starvation still prevails.

Rewatching old pyro videos and it is as good as I remember

Ommggggg, the use of Path at the end is soooo good. I absolutely love that song

I like how I got baited into a jake Paul movie review but instead ended up finding something I enjoyed much more, thanks Pyro

People miss one extremely important thing about the film: everyone gets to pick their favourite meal to eat for each day. Everyone has their favourite food made for them personally daily, it's just that no one sticks to it.

Ive watched this video 4 times and only now do I realize how hilarious the concept of advertising another youtube on youtube is

Goreng means fried. nasi means rice. Good video as always. just felt like i needed to point that out..

The movie: sinister visuals, kinda hard to watch at some parts Pyro's memes: hehe video game funny

You misunderstood Imoguiri's reason to enter the hole. It wasn't because she was promised funding or treatment for her cancer but rather because she wanted to see the thing with her own eyes before she passed away.

I've watched this video a few times and keep enjoying it. It's so well-edited and sequenced really helpfully too. Probably worth noting that the dog's namesake Rameses II is the same historical figure as Ozymandias, the subject of the Shelley sonnet "Ozymandias" that's (funny enough) also referenced in the title of the Breaking Bad finale. I think adaptations of Don Quixote like the Richard Kiley "Man of la Mancha" use a framing device where the main character is locked in a hole-like underground prison cell and reading from Don Quixote to his fellow inmates, so that's really cool too. I also think that details like the free provision of water and the shuffling of floors every month point away from an intended metaphor about class inequality under capitalism /in general/. That is, poor reviews of this film criticize it as "another boring Marxist movie about how rich people are bad," when the movie is clearly doing something more specific, interesting, and new than "rich people are bad." There are no idle rich in the hole, even on Floor 0, and the fear is always present that next month you'll starve -- which just doesn't apply to any upper class in a real-life country, to the point that it would totally break the metaphor if that were the metaphor. Their wealth is definitionally not unstable. It's generational, it's invested, it's insured and defended by conservative powers. This film seems more interested in a specific point about the global "food shortage" (in quotes because food is overproduced and wasted by over-consumers while millions starve), and the metaphor of the hole's structure seems to me to ask whether humans could really make and sustain a society that's non-hierarchical enough that nobody needs to choose between eating his neighbor & starving to death. If so, how would we ever do it, starting from a structure defined by being vertical and therefore hierarchical? As you point out, a revolution led by charismatic personalities isn't presented as the one answer, when the promise to "win them over with words" is abandoned almost immediately and the "necessary violence" that replaces it turns out to just be... violence. So that's something I really like about this movie, that it leaves the answers to both questions ambiguous. Maybe we can do it, and all this carnage and despair ends in the metaphorical revival of this child, a world transformed because some revolutionaries kept a tiny, fragile message of hope alive. But if we can do it, we still don't know how; the solution is an ambiguous, possibly post-death fever dream in the movie. And maybe we can't do it. The hole has 666 floors because it is genuinely Hell, we are in Hell on Earth, if a sacred message somehow reaches Floor 0 it will only be misinterpreted as "the food isn't advanced enough / perfected yet" instead of "help we're eating each other." There are thousands of non-metaphorical children who have not eaten today, while kerosene is sprayed on the surplus oranges to keep starving field-hands from eating them, and somewhere a Silicon Valley startup is prototyping anti-thievery packaging for baby formula. I'm partial to the second reading based on the total evidence of the film, but I think the image of the girl safely asleep on the platform as it shoots up towards the light, as the last moment of the movie, is a strong push to the viewer to feel that a spark of hope could still persist in there. Gently, I'd also suggest that we should be careful as viewers, presuming we do not go to bed hungry too often, to not figuratively confuse our own food not being fancy enough for the reality of food insecurity & starvation. The "we've all had a job interview like this" and "these people who consume too much are just like CEOs at board meetings" analogies are, at times, not very thoughtful about where we (broadly, the working- to middle-class citizens of first-world nations) sit in the real hierarchy of food distribution & consumption in the world. Very few of us have woken up below, say, Floor 30 -- and living paycheck to paycheck we might descend as deep as 40 now and then -- but we should be conscious that, even in these conditions, we have reliable access to enough safe food to keep us not only alive but in pretty okay nutritional health, and statistically we consume a LOT more of it than human beings really need. So we shouldn't be so quick to identify with the "little guy" in a metaphor like this one by making it about class inequality more broadly. Not because we shouldn't prioritize the little guy's survival and fight for our own welfare, but because assuming that the little guy is us can lead us to act blindly and unaccountably, and keep us from acting in the small ways that we really can act to take care of our neighbors in a big, unfair system. Anyway, thanks for the food for thought.

Rewatched this masterpiece and just realized the Joel Bulk Bogan meme at 1:14:00 - I now love it even more.

Not gonna lie, I didn’t realize this was over an hour long until there were 5 minutes left

A note on the ringing sound: The high pitch ringing noise that was poised as akin to Breaking Bad is actually a phenomena experienced by individuals in moments of extreme fear. Often seen in times of war, when soldiers go out into a battlefield they lose all their hearing due to their other senses being heightened leaving a slight hum. Edit: Didn’t think this comment would get so much traction. Shameless plug time: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mtxpeKiU1ZubpoU.html

21:11 “this floor is MID.”

12:30 when the narrator of the video says he tells him he's been accepted the captions read " So I've been accepted." ..."Not Yet" lol 💀

Imagine the film was actually just a very long snickers advert and the ending of the film just ends with the slogan, “You’re not yourself when your hungry” - Snickers get some nuts...

I love how pyro used a serious tone explaining this dark and horrifying movie but still insert shitpost and dank meme inbetween

1:16:16 yo the montage is so sick definitely one of my favourite tropes in pyro videos and this one takes the cake!!!

Pyro is great at something it's like commentary but it's also a recap and a walkthrough. He's also good at all of it

"What's your favorite food?" "Whole roasted horse. The big kind. Must be whole."

"I can't scat upwards" is one of the funniest lines I've ever heard in a movie

As a spanish person myself, great vid

the first time i saw this video, it stuck with me and i have thought about it for days. a truly perspective changing film. love it!!

It's the perfect "I suffered, and I don't want anyone else to go through that" vs "I suffered, why shouldn't they?"

these long analysis videos you've been doing are incredible dude

Not the “funny alive dog” being dead

the real message of this film is that everyone wants to plant their tree in the car but no one wants the park the shade

This was made by the same person that made MLG teletubbies.

"I'm going to be making more longer videos" If this is true pyro, my hats of to you. I know the daily vids help you more, but the longer analysis videos is where you truly shine.

I didn't watch this video for a year because of Logan Paul in the thumbnail and I regret it😂

actually red light is ok for sleeping, because it doesn't impair melatonin production

"Who the hell would bring a book here?" Says the lady who brought a WEINER DOG

It's called "El Hoyo" (the hole) in spanish. It came out just when Spain went into quarantine and it became pretty famous. Spanish mainstream movies are always low-quality comedies with overused jokes and everybody was amazed that this was a Spanish production. I'm glad that it's also gaining recognition outside the spanish speaking countries, thank you!

Pyro: I say "wa'er", not "water", I'm british Also Pyro: immediately proceeds to say "water" literally the next sentence

I honestly was so into watching this I didn't even realize that an hour had passed by.

Is no one going to talk about the fact that the title and thumbnail made it look like a Logan Paul series video but it turned out to be a really well done analysis on a really chilling movie?

I strongly doubt you'll ever see this, but I wanted to say that your ability to analyze this kind of stuff is incredible. You have an impressive ability to pick apart what seem to be very minor design choices in a piece of media and very clearly explain the significance each and every one has to the overall message of what you're discussing. You also do a wonderful job of respectfully going over both serious topics while spicing it up just a bit with the occasional joke without the latter detracting from what you're trying to explain. I also find it impressive just how good you are at remaining relatively unbiased, even when the message of the media you're explaining is something controversial or heavy. I know these usually aren't your thing, and I enjoy your regular content just as much, but I really hope we'll see plenty more videos like this from you in the future. I really love seeing this type of stuff, and I hope that you enjoy making it as well.

Something interesting that you didn’t point out is that in the Spanish version Trimagasi refers to Goreng very formally, using usted and the usted conjugations when referring to him

I can not explain how much I love this movie I watched this video a couple of days ago and I cannot stop thinking about it

*Ok seriously, how is this made by the same person who made Shrek Has Swag?*

Ok jokes aside. Pyro is really good at break down, narration, and analysis. Honestly it’s really good.

52:14 Here's a funny alive dog. "Front camera meme star Walter the dog actually dead".

That last question was so heartbreaking just watching this poor man struggle to say the words had me a tears

I didn’t even know this was an hour holy shit.

Okay, nobody told me that the Purple Television Furry was this good at making Movie Reviews. We need more of these

1:15:26 GUYS HE SAID LE FUNNY WORD

the one dude who brought a massive box full of Mre's

I have two beliefs: 1) The child ended up getting to Floor 0 as a sign of hope and appreciation, something the VSCA knew people would NOT experience 2) The Kid splats like a pancake at the top when they reach floor 0 lol

"what's your favorite food?" "a whole pineapple, not cut"

This was a great vid. The synopsis, ur humor, ur insight, everything was 5 star. Had me hooked the entire hour 20.

there was such comfort watching something like this with commentary, I started the vid not knowing what i was getting into but you made me want to watch til the end. I genuinely believe your vid is the optimal way to watch this film🙏

My interpretation of the ending is that the child never existed either : she's representing hope and purity in their most cliché vision, a child, even if its presence is impossible inside the hole. Miharu represents marginalised idealists, that want to find this hope and purity by revoking their privileges and climbing down the social ladder, even if they have to use violence or make sacrifices in their quest. Goreng manage to protect the panacota till the end, and it is sent back, but the organisation, so disconnected with the reality of the hole, just think nobody wanted the dessert because of a single hair on it. The Organisation provides every person's favorite meal, and they're blind to the tragedy that occurs inside the hole, because for them they provided everyone with what they wanted, not taking greed, despair and pure evilness into account.

i feel like all the people on level 0, like the chefs and stuff, literally have no clue that anyone is suffering on the floors below them and don't understand that there are people that aren't getting food. To them, they make everyone an individual dish, their favorite dish, and they make it to absolute perfection. They don't understand that the people on the higher floors just take everything they want and leave nothing for other people on lower levels. To the chefs on floor 0, they have provided everyone with the food they need. They think that everyone takes a plate, their plate (or their dish or whatever) and that's all. They're probably completely ignorant to what is really happening down there (a war and desperation for food). All they know is that all the food is gone when it arrives back on the surface. Just my thoughts lol, sorry if they're confusing :)

53:16 "thew"

When he said Level 48 he was just mocking his Doom Level for being so low

The amount of quality of this video should be illegal, bravo.

if everyone had only eaten their own favorite foods, everyone would have had their own portion

And then Gordon Ramsey turned this movie into a reality cooking show.