Analysing sound in a scene - Kill Bill

We analysed this scene in class of Beatrix from Kill Bill getting buried alive in a coffin. In this scene there is a large portion of it where there is no video and the screen is completely black, therefor the only thing to guide you through the scene is the sound.

Sound is used very cleverly in this scene. The non-diegetic music played sounds like someone whistling and you would think that it would not fit with a scene of someone getting buried alive however, it works. When the last nail is hammered into the coffin, there music cuts off and the sound of the hammer hitting the nail is emphasised. 

This is where the light is cut out by the coffin lid closing and the scene continues in blackness. The sound is used to help the viewer visualise the coffin being carried to the hole and then lowered into it by using thuds etc. 

There is also a faint sound of a pebble hitting the lid of the coffin as it is in the whole, which is followed by a loud crashing sound of all of the soil and rocks being dumped on top of the coffin to fill the whole. The sound and the utter darkness really puts the viewer in the scene and it actually made me feel claustrophobic as i watched it, this is a clear indicator that the sound is used very successfully in this scene.

Another clever technique that is used with the sound in this scene is that as the dirt and soil piles onto the coffin, the sound becomes more muffled as she is buried deeper and deeper as the hole fills with material, this really puts the viewer in Beatrix's shoes, as you are hearing the situation from her point of view inside the coffin.