CUBE:Constructing Unpredictable Being Excursively

Zander 2022-11-21 02:39:18

When I watched the first film, I felt that the biggest highlight was that there was no background, which gave every audience a lot of freedom, and could explore all the themes presented by the film from different perspectives: human nature, worldview, morality, and values—— Of course, this highlight has to be connected with the suggestiveness of the external background of the second and third parts. To put it bluntly, one of the biggest features is that the point of view is broader. Quite simply, the blurrier the background and the less "reasonable explanation" of the behavior, the more re-creation the audience has, like what I'm writing. Personally, I think the theme of the film is close to Camus' absurdism. In fact, as the content of the movie says, when this cube is just an unintentional product of people, and each person is only responsible for a part, the result is, but when we find ourselves in this self-destructing cube, we realize that we are the one who made the killing. According to Camus, those who find their situation and resist are really happy people; unfortunately, this is also the tragedy of Camus' absurdism-because we are still alive, no matter what No matter what, we can only find a place to put our existence value, others, other things, even past, present, maybe family, work, love, or, simply, God. But wherever our existence is in exile, we are only there to live. This is why the final architect of the film (perhaps he is the spokesperson for Meursault in "The Man in the Game") is a symbol of the act of rescuing the only mentally retarded even if he gave up his own existence.
The symbols of the characters can be explained from two aspects: the policeman is not only the representative of the absurd world written by Camus, but also the world process mentioned by Hegel. When he tried to lead the group in his own way, he was doomed to failure: because individuality can never be universal, each regrouped with its own values ​​and fell into another struggle. As a result, the dominant idea returns to the original basic idea of ​​collective existence, and the architect, as mentioned above, Sisyphus is his best name, and we can see a hint of what Hegel called The shadow of "moral judgment".
Due to the high degree of openness of the film's allegory, different but reasonable interpretations can be drawn from any angle; and if I want to look at it from a dystopian point of view, I can only think of one person: Hegel - probably recently The reason why I have been reading his book - the struggle between world processes in spiritual phenomenology, in fact, what everyone is approaching is nothing but an illusory universality, a magnified particularity, God is always far away, As long as we live in the gap between existence and consciousness. God, that's just a specimen in classical philosophy.
Compared with 1 and 2, there are more sci-fi elements, but at best they only explain the theoretical model of the simplest parallel world, while the multi-dimensional parallel world and the ultimate parallel world - the parallel world in the mathematical structure does not involve . Of course, even so, it is very exciting. However, thematically, if 1 describes the present, then 2 further pessimistically describes the future, especially the collapse of the world when it returns to a quantum superposition, which heralds the end of the universe's endless cycle (or process). ?).
As for 3, many comments call it a failure, but I don't think it's a matter of topic. Because the prequel only shortens the time range of discussion, if 1 is talking about the eternal problem of human beings, then 3 just specifies this theme to a specific time period, and the theme is still that theme, just like the life Specifically on the hydrocarbons.
Perhaps, our world is a big cube. But there is always one thing we can be sure of: we still have to live - "existence precedes essence".

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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.