before expiration

Joaquin 2022-04-19 09:02:16

I finished watching all three cubes in a row yesterday, let's not talk about Zero, it's a bit boring. Of the Cube and HyperCube, I prefer this one.

CubeI studies space. With the cooperation of the mathematical genius girl and the digitally sensitive autistic teenager, the three-dimensional space can be exhausted, and finally they found a bridge! (Although judging from Zero’s narrative, we can’t live even if we find Bridge!)
CubeII takes us to a four-dimensional space, common sense tells us that the extra dimension is time, and Einstein tells us the relationship between time and space is non-linear! Okay, here's the trouble! This is a Cube with infinite time and space. The final crack is to break through the expiration and break through the Nirvana of life and death!

Really? Kate deciphered the code, but could not break through the vigilance of life.

In fact, it is inevitable for everyone to die. At that time, it is our next expiration. Life is a big cube. Climbing from one cube to another is always the same. There are traps everywhere. The cube on the left may lead to the exit. The bridge, or the trap, goes around in circles, life repeats the past again and again, in the four-dimensional cube, you can kill a person 4 times, or you can walk out 6 paths, time is very fast in this cube, in It was very slow in that cube, as if experiencing joy or torture.
The infinity of time and space is from the perspective of the cube, and from the perspective of the subject, time is ultimately limited, and life is limited. When the cube expires, no one is spared. In the end, people cannot escape life and death!

Western movies are almost all religious, and this cube series is even more so in my opinion. If the cube implies the world, and the people in the cube imply the mortals, then the design and maker of the cube is undoubtedly the representative of God: I don’t know where I came from when I was born, and I don’t know where to go when I die!
Even if someone is lucky enough to be detached and meet God, God may not be happy, because this is not the rule of the game!

I think, in this case, we might as well love everyone who passes by in our own cube before the next expiration!

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Extended Reading
  • Ulises 2022-04-20 09:01:55

    [09.09.02] The most sci-fi and imaginative one in the series, but it may be difficult for non-sci-fi fans to accept, while sci-fi fans may like the settings in each cube in the film (I originally I am very obsessed with Ni Kuang's "Mansion" in which the time lapse of parallel space is slower than the real world setting), but the plot is too weak, and it is more confusing than the first one.

  • Alyce 2021-12-31 08:03:00

    Also known as: Panic Party 2: Secret Room Panic Party/ Panic Party・Hypercube/ Different Dimensional Killing Array 2: Super Cube Director: Andrzej Sekula Official Website: http://www.cube2themovie.com/ Release Year: 2002 Production Country/ Region: Canada imdb link: tt0285492

Cube²: Hypercube quotes

  • [first lines]

    Colonel Thomas H. Maguire: [Maguire opens the portal to a new room, but ignores the room to look at the sides of the portal] Numbers. Where's the goddamn numbers?

    [the portal closes before he can decide what to do]

    Colonel Thomas H. Maguire: Oh God, oh God. There has to be something.

    [He opens the briefcase, but it does not hold whatever he was looking for]

    Colonel Thomas H. Maguire: Oh, shit. Goddamn it! Goddamn it! I mean, they're my numbers! Damn. Don't I at least get a shot at my numbers, you stupid fucks? I want a chance! God. I want a chance. God. I want a chance, like everyone else!

  • [Simon and Kate hear someone at a portal outside the room that they are in. Simon pulls a knife and holds it to Kate's throat]

    Simon Grady: Relax. This is just for show. All right? Pretend that you're scared.

    Kate Filmore: That should be easy.

    [the portal in the ceiling opens and Max looks down at them]

    Simon Grady: All right, get down here now or she's dead!

    [Max pulls back, and the portal closes]

    Simon Grady: Some hero.

    [He withdraws his knife and lets Kate go]

    Kate Filmore: [sardonically] I have that effect on men.

    Simon Grady: Glad to see you haven't lost your sense of humor.