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the specter of capitalism
Timmy 2022-10-30 02:08:26
The secret room setting of "Cube" has subverted the conventional mode of hardship drama. There is no shady screen behind the secret room, no meaning, and there may not even be viewers. The reason why people are thrown in is just that the machine is finished and needs to be used. The authority that builds the secret room is just an empty symbol, on the one hand it is the projection of people's fantasy (which is explained by other general works), and on the other hand, it is filled with its essence by people's actions. This is also a more postmodern interpretation of Kafka's behemoth of power, which not only points out the predicament in which man is oppressed by the absurd and has nowhere to go, but it is each man himself that causes this predicament. The cube is a specter of capitalism, created by chance by the hands of the market (everyone does their job just for profit), and the maker is drawn into the cycle of consumption. During this process, the will is not present, and the main body of power is floating in the air.
Extended Reading
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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.
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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.