Humanity labyrinth, who can escape?

Joelle 2022-09-19 00:42:23

This article was first published on the public account: Theater7

Don't judge a person's character by profession, and don't guess a person's ability by appearance. Every life is worthy of respect.

No. 7 Rating: 7.53


Synopsis

Six people of different occupations, different identities, who do not know each other are trapped in a cube as huge as a Rubik's cube .

They are policemen, doctors, architects, students, sensor experts and idiots.

Each small room is connected to other small rooms up, down, front, back, left and right, and some rooms are equipped with mechanisms .

And they need to find which are the safe rooms to find the exit.

The first to act were the sensor experts.

He believes that the appearance of the mechanism is automatically sensed by sensors, so he uses shoes to test it.

Unexpectedly, some sensors can only sense the human body .

The sensor expert just hit the organ by mistake, and his face was sprinkled with strong acid and melted.

The remaining five were even more frightened, but they knew that only by working together could they escape.

The student excelled at math, and she found that each room was identified by three sets of numbers.

And judging by the room in which it is located, a room without a prime number is a safe room.

In this way, they carefully searched according to the students' ideas, and found that it was indeed the case.

But soon encountered a problem, the police almost got hit by the police when they were exploring the way, but fortunately they were able to escape.

This seems to confirm that the students' thinking is biased.

In times of desperation, unpleasantness also occurred in the team, with the police and the architect arguing.

To their surprise, the architect actually participated in the design of the cube.

But according to himself, he just used money to do things, designed the shell, and didn't know any insider information.

The only thing he knew was how big the building was .

The pupils' eyes lit up, because knowing the volume, they could figure out how many small rooms there were.

Through calculations, she found that the entire cube consists of 26*26*26 small rooms.

And she noticed that the three sets of numbers in each room were actually coordinates , so it was only a matter of time before finding the exit.

But in the process of exploring, they encountered a new problem.

Some room organs are voice-controlled, as long as any sound is made, people will be killed.

Therefore, the police proposed to give up the idiots who often screamed, but they were opposed by the doctor. How should they choose...


Video Analysis

This is a movie similar to Escape Room, except that the secret room has been replaced by a room composed of multiple cubes, and the key to decryption is mathematics. The film has a good reputation and popularity, and was later filmed by different directors for sequels, However, there is still a gap between the reputation and this one.

The analysis of human nature is often the focus of secret room movies, and "The Frustration Fang" is no exception, because only in the face of the desperate situation of life and death, the state that people show is the most real. Aside from GG's "Flying Eagle" not long after the appearance, the characters in the film are composed of police officers, doctors, architects, students and idiots. The main content of the story is about their role in the team and the change of attitude .

Doctor , he was very unpleasant when he first appeared on the stage. He talked a lot and had negative energy, which was very demoralizing. Such people are counterproductive in a team that needs to survive. But the appearance of the idiot gave the role of the doctor a new soul. When everyone wanted to give up the idiot, the doctor stood up. When I was watching, a thought flashed in my mind, did she do something wrong? already? Maybe it should be given up for team idiots? And the plot after that hit me hard in the face, this is what the director wants to engrave in our minds, we should not give up on anyone, maybe he is the key to decryption .

Student , the weakness she showed when she appeared on the stage once made me think that she had no role, and the only thing she could do was to serve as a vase to provide men with spiritual food. However, she never expected that the student would use her expertise in mathematics and her extraordinary mind to become the main force in solving the problem. But she is also selfish. When the team proposed to give up the idiot, she obviously acquiesced.

The architect , when he appeared on the stage, was in a different state than others. He was the only person who had no desire to survive. His extreme disappointment with reality made him lose confidence in life. But after learning that the dead space that trapped them was related to him, he chose to help his partners escape as much as possible, and he was the first to bear the brunt of conflicts, and later became the key to protecting the team. But it is such a responsible, responsible and trustworthy man who chooses to escape from reality, which shows how bad the reality the director wants to portray for us.

The police , the most critical character in the film, has a strong desire to survive. After his appearance, he became the team's reassurance, and it was he who calmed everyone down. As the leader of the team, it is right to give full play to the strengths of everyone in the team, but you should not direct others to do things they are unwilling to do in order to achieve your own goals, and you should not attach your own ideas to others. Obviously, he It was a failure. His efforts did not exchange for the respect of the team members, but only the fear and fear of him.

When faced with the question of being an idiot, he made a decision too easily, giving people the feeling of being ruthless and disrespectful to life. In our eyes, useless people will be abandoned by him at any time, and he does the same . As a police officer, he was supposed to be the embodiment of justice and the pillar of the protection team, but ironically, he turned out to be a time bomb to destroy the team.

In fact, what the director wants to show us is not these individuals, but let them represent a class of people. After all, if you are really in a desperate situation, the conflict of human nature should not only stop there, and the dividing line between good and evil will not be so obvious. , I think most people hope that while preserving the team, they must live first, right? So try asking yourself, if it were you, what kind of person would you be?



When the team falls apart and fights on their own, the result is doomed to be tragic, and in desperate times, how many people can escape the labyrinth of humanity?

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Extended Reading

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.