Diseased Bodies and Domestic Space: Transmodern Space in Tsai Ming-Liang's The Hole

This article will consider how the film The Hole offers images of that utopian potential in its juxtaposition of apocalyptic urban decay with the euphoric extravagance of the movie musical, a parallel world that sends the Man Upstairs, the Woman Downstairs and several dancers into joyous song and dance sequences across the barren hallways and derelict stairwells.