In reality, each of us is building a Cube

Matt 2022-11-28 19:50:25

Police officer Quentin (Maurice Dean Wint), escape master and sensor expert Lane (Wayne Robson), doctor Holloway (Nicky Guadagni), Architect Worth (David Hewlett) and mathematics student Nevin (Nicole de Boer) wake up and find themselves in a cube made up of identically shaped cubes. In the highly sophisticated labyrinth with complex structure, their only way out is to escape the labyrinth. However, although the cubes have the same appearance, the mechanisms inside are different and complex.
The escape master Lann tied his boots with shoelaces and threw them to the opposite room. If the shoes were all right, people would enter again. He used this method to evade several traps, but not all rooms apply the method, and as a result he died under the electro-chemical trap.
Quentin, the policeman, proclaimed himself the boss, and asked everyone to work together to find a way out. College student Naiwen found that if there are prime numbers in the three numbers at the door of a certain room. Then there is a mechanism in this room. According to this reasoning, everyone passed the verification using the shoe throwing method. But once the policeman Quentin was caught in the trap, but luckily he escaped the disaster with his agility. On the way, they met Kazan (Andrew Miller), an autistic young man who was also trapped in it. Quentin thinks he's a burden and wants to abandon him, but Doctor Holloway protects him. Architect Worth told the crowd that he designed the outer shell of the cube, but knew nothing about the inside, and he thought there was no way out. According to Worth's shell size, Nevin calculated that the Rubik's Cube has 17,576 rooms of 26*26*26, and the three numbers at the door of the room are actually Cartesian coordinate numbers, which identify the location of the room in the Rubik's Cube. Everyone came to the edge of the Rubik's Cube but found that the cliffs and cliffs outside were empty. Everyone used their coats to form a rope. The lightest doctor, Holloway, climbed out but found nothing. When she tried to swing out to observe, the momentum was too great. Lowe's hand, just because Quentin, who had previously called the authoritarian Quentin to protect Kazan Holloway, was a Nazi. Holloway fell, but Quentin argued to the crowd that she had slipped.
Everyone continued to look for the exit, but found that they had returned to the room where they started, because there was Lann's body in the room. But the room is next to the edge, and the room was next to it before. It turned out that the room would move. Quentin became more and more savage, and everyone deduced that he was Holloway's murderer. Naiwen found out that the powers of prime numbers were actually used to identify the organs, but she couldn't count them. An accident happened. Kazan turned out to be a master at calculating factor numbers mentally, and hope was rekindled. Architect Worth used the door on the floor of the room to fall off Quentin, who fell in a pool of blood. Worth, Nevin and Kazan seized the opportunity to successfully move the room to the exit. Seeing the sunlight outside the room, the three of them were about to leave, when Quentin suddenly appeared and stabbed Worth and Nevin with an iron weapon. Quentin climbed up the exit and was about to leave and was caught by Worth, and Quentin's body was torn in half as the room moved.
Card favored the only survivor who escaped.
"Wisdom is better than beauty."
"We have to be human even if we die." The
escape from the room feels mediocre, and the story itself is not particularly fascinating. Where the film stands out is its social metaphor. Although the architect Worth participated in the design of the outer shell of the cube, he did not know that he was going to design such a thing. Everyone involved in the plan was only responsible for a small part, and no one knew the overall purpose of this thing. Just sitting in front of the computer in the office and working hard; even the heads of the project don't know what the original purpose was, because the people in charge of the project have changed back and forth several times, and the original purpose may not be known. ; Even the funds for the operation of this project may have been inexplicably approved under other names, and have long been forgotten, but since the money has been approved, and the money needs to be spent in accordance with procedures, something has to be done, so , there is such a seemingly purposeless design. In reality, each of us is building a cube, and each of us lives in it.
The police officer Quentin, who at first appeared to be a leader of justice, gradually turned hideous. Therefore, everyone must think independently and not be controlled by others.

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Cube quotes

  • Quentin: Listen, we can't go climbing around in here.

    Holloway: Why not?

    Quentin: There's traps.

    Holloway: What do you mean traps?

    Quentin: Booby traps. I looked in the room down there, and something almost cut my head off.

  • Quentin: [talking to Holloway] You listen to me, woman. Every day I mop up after your bleeding heart. The only reason you even exist is because I keep you!. I know your type. No kids, no man to fuck you. So, you go around outraged, sticking your nose up other people's assholes. Sniffing their business.