cruel reality will strangle people to pieces. This is the panic recipe (cube). The ignorant wakes up to the world of the cube and finds that six doors lead to six roads, each of which is unknown. Excessive curiosity and lack of vigilance, he stepped out without reading the six roads and thinking about their differences. Then there are the traps and brutal dismemberment images. The film was flustered, so it started in such a way that it was a bit depressing, natural, and cool.
Perhaps director Vincenzo Natali was trying to articulate the motives of his film in the first place, not a traditional commercial blockbuster. Therefore, there is no shadow of Hollywood heroism in this film, nor does it deliberately exaggerate the atmosphere of horror. Even the bloody scene at the beginning is unusually calm. It seems that the director is trying to tell the audience from the beginning: this is not an ordinary cube, not just a game full of traps; it is a phenomenon, a cruel and natural phenomenon.
Frustrated and Moved: Killing Array and Solving the Puzzle
Let's bring the plot back to the movie. The architect was lying, and the wounded policeman struggled to climb into the room. The police attacked the doctor who had just arrived and opened the door to help the students who were calling for help. Then the escape uncle appeared. That's the five people in the room at the beginning, all very different. The police are undoubtedly the most proactive of all. The architect seemed silent and passive, and he didn't seem to care about being trapped. When the police tried to lead the group, the escape master was dismissive. This is where it starts to get stuck.
Here I have to say that the director (and also the screenwriter) has a clever idea. Five seemingly unrelated people just formed the prototype of a human society. Let the movie go beyond the simple "escape room" concept. It seems that the people in the cube are the epitome of the real society. And the cube full of unknowns and dangers is like this world. They started to escape. So the human exploration of the world began.
The escape master is the first one to try, and he has the proud capital - his experience. It seemed to be going well at first, and he avoided the danger of the flames and the chemical detectors. But experience can't explain everything. After all, there are always things he hasn't experienced, and there are always traps he hasn't seen. So he died first.
It should be noted that, in fact, they found strange numbers on the door at the beginning. But they ignored that the escape master's experience instead became a hindrance to him not surviving. When human beings explore the world, they begin to discover laws, but they still respond according to their existing experience, so the experiencer dies first. In exchange for the death of the experiencer, the original cognition was overturned, and people began to look for science. The four remaining people in the flustered party began to re-cognize this place, and they looked for patterns to avoid danger. In the following expeditions, they were no longer blind, and it seemed that everything was developing for the better. Then the mentally handicapped came on.
The emergence of the mentally handicapped intensified the contradiction between the doctors and the police, who originally had different ideas. Out of concern for humanity, doctors will naturally have conflicts with the police, a governmentized person. The students also showed impatience with the mentally handicapped. The architect is still maverick and indifferent. The conflict between them began to erupt after the police attack. The police teamed up with others to attack and ostracize the architect (who he thought was the most hated of all).
It seems that the cause of the matter comes from the mentally handicapped, and their contradictions have nothing to do with the mentally handicapped. The mentally handicapped screaming is just a fuse. When their inherent laws can no longer guarantee their safety. When the science of human summaries cannot explain the problems encountered. Doubt and unease intensify the conflict between them. There is one detail: when the police accused the architect of being negative, he opened a door and asked him to jump into the trap to prove his courage. This may be the so-called true human nature.
The architect shows his wisdom, he is the wise man of all, sees reality through. But he is still weak, because he chose to escape. The construction of the cube is a strange product that no one seems to be leading, and for no reason. Just like the real world we live in, it has no purpose and no reason. It seems that countless coincidences work together to become what it is now. The negativity of the architect brought everyone back into silence. Police hysteria. Others remained on the sidelines. The students then look for patterns again.
This process is like when we search for the laws of nature, when science in the past could not explain reality. Humanity has fallen into unease about the unknown world again. The restless and painful struggle begins. The dark side hidden in human nature begins to show up again. The journey still has to go on, so new laws have to be summed up again. The architects who revealed the truth were the first to be attacked, and the students, on behalf of the scholars, began to seek new solutions. A new round of exploration has begun.
The last dangerous room. From now on, the danger no longer comes from the cube, but from the trapped humans. It is also from here that the role of the police has changed. The police appeared to be out of step with the group. The conflict between the doctor and the police became irreconcilable. Students' attitudes towards police changed. They came to the edge of the cube. On the edge of the cube, the police killed the doctor.
Escape is not just a story of a few people, it is closer to the extended meaning of the story. The police, a product of this society, like our own social machine, played a key role from the very beginning and set humanity on the right path.
Civilization progressed, and gradually the ruling apparatus began to fail; the conflict between the humanism represented by the doctor and the centralized system of the police became more and more intense. until the doctor was killed. It seems that the police killing the doctor is inevitable from this point of view. I hope that after seeing this, everyone will no longer feel embarrassed by the sudden change of face of the police. The death of a doctor is like a bloody repression in order to maintain rule when a centralized government cannot adapt to the democratic process. (Uh, don't check my water meter)
Let's look at the four remaining people: student, policeman, architect, mentally handicapped. The police need the skills of the students, and after the death of the doctor, the wise architect becomes his greatest threat. So the police kidnapped the students, and the students gradually recognized the face of the police. At this time, the architect, who had been passive, became a hero. He rescued the student from the police. The origin appeared, and they returned to the room where the escape master died. It's a hilarious irony, isn't it? All crashed again.
The cognition of the world, the search for truth, in Vincenzo Natali's view, is like this. Start with experience, then we look for science. We develop forward. But one day, we suddenly discovered that science has lost its effectiveness, or that we have followed the line of science and returned to the starting point. It seems that both experience and science seem meaningless.
Uh, it seems too mystical to say so myself, blah~blah~blah.
In short, when you encounter problems in life, do you believe in science? Or believe in experience? The development of our species seems to be the same as one's life experiences. From the ignorance of the first birth - to meet a wall in the search - to find the pattern to avoid potential danger - in the last years, I found that only God knows the answer to many things. "The closer you get to the end, the more confused you are." Here I want to say, in fact, hope is in sight.
When existing cognition is completely overturned, it marks the beginning of new cognition. They finally discovered the secret of the Rubik's Cube. Look for what was missed - the room marked 27. It will take them to the exit. The wonderful climax begins, the mentally handicapped turns out to be a math genius, the cops are freed, and the other three begin their final journey. At the exit, the police chased after him strangely and killed the student who was about to escape. The architect stopped the police and walked out mentally handicapped. Note that the last one to go out is the mentally handicapped!
I believe that the director is optimistic about the future, so he created the role of "mentally handicapped", and the talent of the mentally handicapped seems to be a miracle. In the closest and most desperate time, the fool is the key to solving all the mysteries. When everyone turned away from the police and all the existing laws were overturned, the police cried helplessly, and only the fool was still selflessly comforting him. Does this reflect the "great wisdom is like a fool" that we often say?
The last part is very exciting, and many details have meanings, so it is inconvenient to explain them in detail here.
Speaking of Movies: Don't Panic
Come on down, let's put away the seriousness and have a chat about what we think about this movie. The sect leader has always been a little confused. How did the police find these three again? When they saw the last student dying, they shouted, "This is unscientific!" Thinking about it, it may be the plot needs: the police representing the ruling institution, assimilate the students, use the students, and finally The students saw the facts, and when they deviate, the rulers killed the students. One has to feel the ferocity of the state machine! Damn Cube only killed 1 of the 6 people, and the people killed 4 themselves. Only hehe.
Our great wise man has been the object of my appreciation since the beginning of the film, full of melancholy style, and can make everyone no longer confused at a critical moment. And at the most dangerous time, it protected the female students (sisters) from the coercion of the police, which is very manly. When it came to the exit, he said directly: "I can't go out, I can't stand the outside world, it's better to stay here!" How to see, how transparent!
You must know that the direction of any civilization is to perish in the end. This is the eternal truth. Amitabha, in real life, where do we go to find the miracle that the mentally retarded and the genius coexist? May eventually end up in the mystery of reality. Thinking back to the beginning, one after another... So I thought, are the traces of ancient civilizations that I have not seen before, just like the life in this cube, disappearing in the natural world full of unknowns? Probably about the same. Alas!
Small addition: The piece numbered 27 is a
bit more vulgar, and laments human nature. Behind the last door of the Cube, architects and students are praying, and behind the door is a world of light. The search for science and the search for human nature seem to be looking for this bright outlet. What is the world outside the export? Smart architects know that even when they go out, there is a bigger cube outside - infinitely stupid human nature. The student has her science and will keep her going, so she says, "I can live with that." And all that's left of the decaying mechanism is the desire to destroy everything.
You said, if you don't move at the beginning, open the door from time to time to check, is it just the rhythm of waiting to go out? I see OK. Too bad a lot of people died in vain. By the way, that school girl is my type.
Finally, answer two questions:
◎ What would you do if you woke up and found yourself in a cube and didn't know anything?
◎ How would you handle everyone's relationship? How do you define your role? But think hard. hiahia~
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