All of the films in tales of terror take place in enclosed environments and contain very little speach;they engulfe the senses with awkward atmospheres created through the enclosed camera angles which make everything in the frame seem too personal for comfort as if you were next to the protagonists; in particular "the elevator" directed by Takashi Shimizu- the story of this is ludacrisly simple but stunning, from watching it once you learn next to nothing about the characters and notice nothing complex but from second watch you can figure out whats going on.
There are various wedding invitations which seem to upset the protgonist; you then see ghosts haunting an elevator; its difficult to explain but from watching it multiple times i've realised the significance of it all.
The boyfriends condesending attitude and the ghosts going down, and the protgonist going up in particular, the significance of this is:
The protagonist going up- signifys leaving sadness behind and going up ascending life; her sadness is the fact that everyone but her is getting married and her boyfriend shows no sign of proposing.
the ghosts going down- they are dead and theres nothing else they can do but go down and face their fate because they let their lives slip away and have lost happyness, so they stalk the happy.
i could be wrong but this is the interpretation i've gotten from it.
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