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Picture 13 Picture 14
00:26:47 00:27:00
As the writer has explained above, Lucas who is scared of clown, he is like being invited to come to the hole. When Lucas finds the clown
on his bed, he brings it into Dane’s bedroom, but the puppet clown is downstairs which is next to the hole. And another case is when Lucas feels
like being grabbed by the puppet into the hole of the swimming pool. Then next is about Julie fear, the thing that she is always scared of is her friend’s
death which is seemed like inviting her into the hole.
Picture 15 00:34:37
Based on picture 15, it is when Julie sees a small girl who is her childhood friend. Julie’s friend’s death, in the past, invites her into
downstairs. Suddenly, the small girl cries and says that she does not want to die after that she immediately enters to the hole.
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C. Psychological Defend of Three Main Characters
After all the mysteries happened and their fears are getting true, it all relates to the hole that they opened. That is why the three main characters who
must face their fear want to put an end to the hole. The first thing that they know that all the fears are getting true and coming from the hole is When all
of their fears are inviting them to come to the hole. By this case, they think that they will be staying up to see the hole all
the night with tools on them because they think that the hole is the center of their fears which always surrounding. They want to know what will come out
from this hole. But there is no answer. It can be showed on the picture 16, that the hole is just like a hole in common.
Picture 16 00:35:35
Our mind is the center of what we will do. If we always think that we are scared for something we will always be afraid to face it. Based on this
film, one of the methods they use to against their fear is to be brave to what they fear.
Because of anxiety provoking demands created by the id, superego, and reality, the ego has developed a number of defense mechanisms to cope
with anxiety. Although we may knowingly use these mechanisms, in many
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cases these defenses work unconsciously to distort reality. Overall the defense mechanism they use is repression. It ensures that what is unacceptable to be
conscious mind, and would, if recalled, arouse anxiety, is pretended from entering into it. Repression acts to keep information out of conscious
awareness. However, these memories do not just disappear, they continue to influence our behavior.
Finally, they feel that they must against their fear buried in their mind. The first thing that they must do for defending themselves is trying to face all
the things they scare bravely. In this film, to against the fear buried in their mind, they must control their mind to be brave to the thing they scare before.
After that, they must against all the fear lively to close the mystery of the hole that they opened.
1. Julie
Julie has some secret that scares her much. She is afraid of her best friend’s death in the accident of frolic garden. She always feels guilty
when she remembers it and she feels that the ghost always shades her. To defend herself, she uses some of Freudian defense mechanism
called Repression. Repression is the defense which functions to keep or avoid previous information or traumatic memory. It cannot be lost itself
and it is continuing to influence someone’s action. After the tragedy of frolic garden that killed her friend, she never
wants to go and play to the frolic garden with her other friends. If she sees that place, all the memory of her small friend reminds her to all tragedy
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and it is what the most she scared because at that time she cannot help her friend.
Someday, in the night, when the ghost comes to shade her, she really feels depressed of this condition. Finally, in the same night, when
Dane and Lucas come to Julie’s house by knocking the window of her room, she tells the secret she has and tries to face and against her fear by
coming to the frolic garden. The Ghost
: Julie.... Julie.... Mine got broken. Julie
:Daddy. The Ghost
:Dont let him hear you. He will make us go to bed. I want to stay up and play.
Dane : Julie... Julie.
The Ghost : Save me, Julie.
Dane : Julie.
Julie : She cant be real. She cant be real... She cant be
real. She... Shes dead. She cant be real. Dane
: Who? Julie
: Annie... Annie Smith. We used to be best friends. We did everything together.
Dane : What happened?
Julie : I let her fall.
Dane : Julie…
Julie : I know what I have to do now.
Dane : Stay in the house.
Lucas : I dont want to stay in the house.
Dane : Just stay in the yard then. 01:02:38
– 01:04:04 Based on the dialogue above, Julie tells all the secrets she keeps
before. She tells that she has a friend whose name is Annie Smith. Annie fell from roller coaster in the frolic garden when they played together. She
tells that she cannot help her and she let her fall. By her explanation, Dane understands that they have some fear they keep. Suddenly, Julie goes away
and she wants to come to Frolic Garden to visit the place where her friend
