The film's about grief as a married couple try to cope with the accidental death of their four-year-old son. Film goes to great lengths to show that different people grieve in different ways. How the death of an individual can shatter relationships and feelings, killing off more than just a person.
There isn't any easy answers on how to recover from tragedy. The film suggest in the end that all you can do is take things one step at a time.
ORDINARY PEOPLE covered the same territory and did so more successfully. RABBIT HOLE doesn't rachet up the conflict and thus suffers in comparison. Nicole Kidman is falling apart but we're never fully exposed to that. We need to see that pain and suffering in order to fully connect with her character. By keeping everyone at bay she isolates herself from us as well. We watch her as the film unfolds instead of truly feeling for her.
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