Speaking from 1: The police representing the state apparatus, the doctor representing the conscience of human nature, the escape expert representing empiricism, the student representing science and technology, the mentally handicapped representing infant purity but carrying the hope of the savior, and the office worker representing the general public. Formed a small society.
The empiricists first pointed out the direction for everyone but died the first-implying that the accumulation of experience lies in the importance of the early stage of the development of human society, and science and technology are formed on this basis and will surely end simple empiricism;
The students of mathematics genius took over the mission of continuing to guide everyone forward, but then they also discovered scientific propositions that they couldn’t solve—implying the importance of science and technology in the mid-term development of human society, and also implying that the more mankind knows, they will inevitably discover The more I don’t understand this deep thinking;
at this time, the mental retardation shows the ability that ordinary people do not have, and finally cracks the code-hinting the religious theme of the whole film: the appearance of gods can often explain or achieve scientifically unexplainable, A miracle achieved;
and at the beginning, the police, who has become a social leader, constantly inspires everyone, but in the end they become everyone’s nightmare-implying the power, selfish, cold-blooded, cruel nature of the state apparatus, which represents the dark side of human nature, and the final form of its development The director informed the audience through the doctor’s mouth—“Nazis”;
the doctor who represents the human conscience has always existed as the patron saint of the group—especially because she has been protecting the mentally handicapped that everyone considers to be a burden, thus retaining Last hope
What role did the office worker representing the general public play in the whole process-he joined the doctor to fight the police, saved the mentally handicapped and prevented the violence against the students, he dragged the police before his death so that the only hope-mentally handicapped success The earth moved towards the light. In addition, there is actually one of the biggest metaphors in the film on him-as one of the creators of the entire cube, he hinted that the real "cube" is the entire human society, and his construction is made by everyone in society. Everyone lives in it, so when the only survivor is mentally handicapped, when he walks toward the exit that resembles the womb of the mother's womb, he is greeted with light, which means the rebirth of mankind.
2 As a continuation of 1, on the basis of 1 profound sociology, it weakened the interpretation of this direction and increased the extension in the field of science fiction, canceled all kinds of traps, proposed the concept of four-dimensional cube, and added multiple time, Parallel space, multiple sci-fi elements exist, and an unexplained background story emerges-the military is the builder of the cube, and the people who enter are all experimental products. Therefore, 2 can be regarded as a good science fiction film if you look at it independently, especially at the end, the true identity of the female doctor is indeed surprising.
0 is the story that happened before 1, and its purpose is to improve the entire series in the story. Compared with 1 and 2, 0 does not have any theme innovations and new concepts. It can be regarded as a The story has an overall account. But in this way, an overly complete plot explanation completely kills the audience's imagination, especially its explanation of mentally retarded identity greatly weakens the social connotation of 1, which is suitable for audiences who just want to fully understand the plot.
In general, 1 is undoubtedly a classic of low-cost Cult movies. The novel "Magic's Cube" escape theme, strange trap arrangements, rigorous mathematical logical reasoning, and the interpretation of sociology have been cleverly endowed by the director. Throughout the whole film constitutes this ideologically advanced film.
It is also because 1 is too classic, so it is difficult for 0 and 2 to have more breakthroughs in connotation. The latter two directors chose to only improve 1 in the plot and develop the story, while avoiding the most profound theme of 1. This is quite a wise choice.
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