Hi again,
WARNING: Wall of text.........:truce:
as this case is gaining some attention where I'm from, I managed to get a few friends together, 5 ladies (ages 19-42) and 3 men (25, 34, 57 yrs old) to view it and give me immediately their opinions without thinking too much into it.
I haven't the slightest idea as I said earlier if Elisa was borned in Canada and stayed there all her life or if she moved there as a kid or in her teens which might mean she could have developed some asian mannerism and characteristics which seems to differ from the american standard of how typically girls behave.
Heck, I'm not even sure the elevator cctv means anything or is related to how she died but that aside, this is just our pov on the elevator scene itself. We have no idea if this is a prelude or even a related part to her final resting place and what happened to her.
Keeping purely to the elevator clip itself, we'll try to provide an alternate asian point of view (not that it matters if she was born in Canada and stayed there her entire life) hoping it helps in some way.
The below is some sort of a summary on how the 8 ppl above from ages 19-57 thought she was doing in the audio less cctv clip.
1. We felt that she entered the lift normally in a nonchalent manner as any of us would. normal pace, perhaps a bit brisk but nothing out of the ordinary.
2. She stares hard at the buttons trying to figure out the floor number she wants, finds it and presses it and then stands upright and moves to the back of the lift leaning again nonchalently against it, expecting the door to close. nothing out of the ordinary here we all agreed.
From here onwards are our assumptions since no sound can be heard and these assumptions are from what we see locally in our country and how we wouldve reacted. It might be diferent from how most of you might react but hey, that's why I said I'm sharing our local asian point of view on her body language.
3. A few seconds go by and while the elevator door does not begin to close she probably hears somebody calling her name or some sound coming from the right. A brief hesitation on her part and then she ducks out quickly looks to the right to see whoever was calling her or what sound that was. At the same time she was wondering why the door is not closing.
4. She then retreats quickly back into the elevator. Some of us here believed she saw someone or something. Others felt that she didn't see anything or anyone and was spooked by the noise or the calling of her name from the right.
5. some of us insists that she didnt see anything but heard a voice calling her name which spooked her leading her to press her body tactically against the inside of the elevator and then quickly readjusting trying to get the best tactically safe position in anticipation to see if whatever was calling her would suddenly appear past the elevator or enter the elevator. (sort of like pressing oneself against a wall hoping that an enemy would sort of miss seeing u and run right pass you.)
6. The others suggested that she was playing hide and seek cheekily with the boyfriend or some new love but decided against it when they realised that her facial expression was gloom throughout. Hide and seek games would have giggles, smiles or laughs. not a gloomy straight face as shown in the video.
7. She stood very still pressed against the inside of the elevator for a few good seconds expecting something to go past her or enter the elevator. Nothing happens. Heart racing she has to know whats going on...........
8, Elisa side steps then approaches the door of the open elevator very carefully again this time, head peering out first but feet still firmly within the elevator as somehow being inside the elevator gives her a sense of safety.
9. Elisa head out, peers to the right AGAIN. seeing nothing, she turns her head from right to straight ahead and then looking to the left. Her head looks left for quite a few seconds. We reckon she didn't see anyone or anything either. Her feet were still in the elevator. She withdraws her head, still standing within the elevator.
10. She probably couldnt have a 100% view of the entire walkway from left to right. Some of us opined that throughout the entire time, there was some noise or perhaps someone calling her name which resulted in her being afraid yet curious. If she saw something she wouldve made a run for it. In this case, a sound but nothing seen yet.
11.At this point she was part spooked and part exasperated. Who's playing such a lousy joke it seems. Also, the sound or voice calling her name suddenly changes to emanate from the left. She finally decides she should just clear this up once and for all and decides to step, 1 foot out first off the elevator. She looks left immediately after stepping out this time, which makes us think that the sound now came from the left instead of the original right.
12. staring for awhile and seeing nothing she hops out of the elevator , sort of stamping her feet (kids sometimes do that to scare out cats, dogs, even lizards etc hiding in corners or crevices) in which we all unanimously agreed was an action which we ourselves wouldve done when we decide to end a game of hide and seek or give up in exasperation signalling that whatever game it was, she's done playing it. Sort of like, hop out, make a noise, ok i'm here. i give up u can see me now u come out too and stop this nonsense whoever u are. She was probably expecting someone to appear by now. a practical joker perhaps.
13. She sidesteps to the left looks straight ahead, sees nothing and retreats back into the elevator. An action in which we have noticed so far that being in the elevator has provided her with some sense of safety.
14. At this point she probably heard the noise or voice again, this time from the right. she steps out of the elevator and immediately looks to the right and upwards to the right. All these probably unconsciously moving to the left indicating that whatever it was had to be coming from the right. The time on the youtube video now is 1.00min-1,03
15. She disappears momentarily out of view as she keeps moving left little by little. She comes back into view and we see a little of her right side and her right arm, shoulders hanging loosely slightly relaxed. In a few moments we see her right arm raised. as she appears more into the view of the camera she now has both her hands on her head (at this point we assume thatthe raised arm seconds earlier was actually both her hands on her head). Her body language was one that most of us agreed would be something we did when we saw or was faced with something we couldnt see or couldnt understand that mystified or frightened us. Her gestures seemed to convey in our opinion "I've had enough of this nonsense! this is scaring me. I'm getting out of here."
16. She enters the lift and this time she presses the numbers on the panel more furiously than the 1st time. Some real panic is seen here imho. she's pressing every and any button she can see/feel.
17. Amdist the frantic pressing, she suddenly calms down and walks steadily out of the elevator. We unanimously think that this action would mean she hears a familiar voice or the prankster who might be someone she knows say something like "ok ok game over. no more jokes. it's just me." she walks out, flips her hair in relief (the ladies agreed that the flipping did looked like a sense of relief ve the one earlier with both hands on the head that displayed frustration and exasperation.)
18. We notice she was still naturally wary and although she turned to the right to face what would be someone familiar, she walked diagonally exiting the lift towards the left. She takes a close look and recognises and confirms its the person she knows.
19. She immediately lets loose a barrage of words half lamenting half accusing him of playing such a screwed up joke on her. She probably felt a mix of relief and anger. She has her hand on her chest and then a palms up hands wide open action probably saying "did you know you almost scared me to death?" and "what the hell were u thinking pulling off such a prank!!??" We then notice that she became more composed and stood properly, being less animated and spoke with her hands mostly at her sides. She then started raising her left hand counting probably saying things like "one, u know i can't see very well, two u know i get scared easily, three u know i dont like such pranks etc and yet u play such a stupid joke on me!" most agreed that the animated counting and bending of the knees were nothing more than physical gestures to reinforce her points and that she was still shaken. adrenaline leftover maybe.
20. The final part was something that the ladies felt was nothing more than Elisa, after giving a piece of her mind to the prankster flipping her hair and walking off back to her room or in the opposite direction of the prankster. The guys felt that someone could be yanking her hair. However one of the ladies pointed out that if her hair was yanked, there would be some sort of losing her balance, losing her footing byt if u look at her feet as she walked away, it did seem to be in a calm natural motion.
All in, we did not think that the elevator clip was particularly relevant except perhaps the identity of the prankster?
Otherwise, we did not dwell into issues such as why did the elevator door stay open so long etc. We simply focussed on her actions and behaviour and asked ourselves if we saw this clip locally, what would have crossed our minds.
I hope our humble insights have helped in some little way.
sorry for wall of text again.
