Rabbit Hole is an intimate, claustrophobically focused anatomy of grief. It examines a couple living through the aftermath of their 4 year old son's death. The film takes place eight months after the accident, when the pain is still raw.
The movie is slow, carefully following Nicole Kidman's actions and her range of icy, hopeless, quietly enraged emotions. The tension she generates in all her interactions is palpable and pitiful. You don't necessarily like her, but you feel the brittle edges and terrible depth of her pain.
There were many fascinating, poignant, difficult scenes, such as those between her and her mother and sister. The difficulties between her and her husband seem somewhat more cliched, but that is okay. Because Rabbit Hole isn't about relationships as much as it is a portrait of grief, and as such, it is very well executed.
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