I watched a scene from Kill Bill Vol.2 and experimented by closing my eyes the first time I watched it. This experiment turned out to be incredibly effective and helped me understand the importance and utter necessity of the sound present in this scene and across other films. It begins with a western style short piece of music overlapped by a person breathing and eventually hearing a hammer, hammering in nails and then a quick and sharp close of a box. Once the western music stopped (simultaneously to the box shutting, the breathing increases and we hear some sort of struggle. This then turns in to hyperventilation and crying. The next intense and noticeable sound was some sort of solid material falling and thudding on the top of the box. We hear short periods of this sound four times flowed by the distant sound of men laughing, and some sort of equiptment. We then hear another selection of louder and sharper thuds for a longer amount of time this time, whilst hearing the persons struggling getting much louder and more hysterical. Once the thuds get louder and eventually stop, we hear the person experience extreme pain and seems to be greatly struggling. The person then calms down to give a silent and tense ending. The sound alone in this scene is incredibly intense and challenging to listen to. I found myself struggling not to jump and fear what was going on in thous scene.
Incredibly, when I watched this same scene with my eyes open, I found it to be no more intense and scary, and in fact the director has chosen to use minimal images on the screen and instead show shortly at the beginning a box being shut from inside, and then just a black screen up until a torch is turned on and we see the outline of a women's face presenting her struggle.
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