Cube 0
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Summary:
Redeems the series |
One question I always have about these cube movies is, how does
throwing a boot into the empty room tell you it's safe or not? This
feels like rehash from the other sequels. But, in those films we
discover some traps are triggered by other things, not by weight, or
movement, or sound, but heat.
After this scene, one man exclaims perhaps it was triggered by heat or
sound, but that isn't possible because the boot hitting the floor was
pretty loud. Most likely it was triggered by a camera picking up a
human form in the middle of the room.
After being disappointed by the follow through of part 1 and 2, I
looked forward to a prequel finally making some sense of all this, and
being a enjoyable film. Kind of like what Hellraiser 3 Bloodline did
for that series.
Now we have 2 workers, overseeing this project to some capacity. We
never see their higher ups, but we do see a higher level of command in
part 2.
They seem to not mind too much what is going on, for they believe they
men and women inside the cube are convicted criminals.
We know this to not be the truth at all.
The fact that in part 1 they followed a puzzle of numbers, primes in
particular, in part 2, well I don't remember what they followed then, 5
dimensional cubes are funny that way. BUt, in this one, they find a
similar puzzle, but this time in sets of letters.
For lack of ingenuity, and originality, I scoff at the simplicity of
the parallel plots at this point, but I trudge on, without judgment...
keeping my mind on the third exit.
"When the rooms align what's the first thing that happens?" "Clean
Sweep" Which is what we saw at the very end of part 2... you ever
wonder why at the end of part 2 when the girl, company employee plant
in the cube, escapes the cube, with some sort of plumb device around
her neck intact, as the cube seems to "clean sweep" itself into
oblivion, they kill her? Did you think that question was going to be
answered in the next movie? Do you still think it's going to be
answered, in Cube Zero? Owen reaching the exit room reminds me a lot of
the ending of Cube 1, I suppose that was the point.
Exit Procedure is very Nazism isn't it.
Anyways, I noticed later on they weren't even waiting for the boot to
hit the floor before entering a new room, that didn't make a whole lot
of sense, although the sound vibration death was quite cool.
Pretty nice ending, the way Wynn becomes Kazan-ized. Makes you wonder
just how Kazan got the way he was doesn't it? People ask what is the
point of this movie, or this trilogy, or franchise... and to my
knowledge there is no point. Unless you look for a more anamorphic
point. And that is the point within.
There is no great moral here, no blatant and obvious tell tale
morality. No, be good or this could happen to you, there is no rhyme
nor reason. Perhaps the only point to be gleamed from such an adventure
is thus.
The CUBE is the mind. The traps are desires, ignorance, apathy, and the
like. We are lab rats in consciousness, trying to get from birth to the
white light at the end, without falling into the traps of our own egos
if you will.
At least, that is my perspective.
