"Cube" is the first work of this series. It was produced in 1997 and is the first work of Canadian director Vincenzo Natali. He was originally a manga artist.
The introduction of the film is very cool. A person wakes up from a coma and finds himself in a closed room. There is an openable hole in the center of the six sides of the room. He opens one and looks at it. The opposite is an identical room. He opened the second one, and the opposite was still the same room... He chose to climb over and stand in the center to look at the room where there was no difference on the surface. At this time, there was a small sound. He stood there, and then split into square pieces of meat. A few seconds later, A bloody steel wire mesh slowly retracted.
The seemingly closed room is endless, and there are dangers. There are 6 people with different abilities but don't seem to remember many things. There is no food or water, no tools, and suspicion and private thoughts from people's hearts. Who built these houses, for what purpose, how did they get in, and can they escape? "Cube" created these problems in a weird style, and still let you end the film with these questions.
At the end of the film, the idiot is arranged to get out of the predicament and walk into a dazzling white. He seems to have come out, but when I look at it, my heart is straight. This white looks so evil.
"Super Cube" was produced in 2002, director Andrzej Sekula (Andrzej Sekula), there is information that he is the photographer of "Falling Water Dog", "Low-Level Novel" and other films, it seems that cult film is really a small circle, and These keywords are enough to stimulate the sensitive nerves of cult film fans.
"Super Cube" continues the story frame of "Cube", replacing the mechanical device room with a more futuristic room. This time there were 8 people in the room, and with the help of anti-gravity, quantum theory, multiverse, collapse and other physical concepts, a Rubik's cube that normal thinking could not understand was created. But no matter how you look at it, the charm of "Cube" is gone. The murder trap does not have that kind of "crisp", and it can make people escape, hey, let's not talk about it.
"Cube Prequel" was produced in 2004, directed by Ernie Barbarash (Ernie Barbarash), he is versatile, has been a director, screenwriter, producer, stuntman, etc.
This is a prequel again. "Star Wars" has a prequel, "Infernal Affairs" has a prequel, and "Cube" also has a prequel. Does the screenwriter have a prequel head? But this prequel is much better than Super Cube. In the scene frame, the closed room is no longer regarded as the absolute focus, but a monitoring room is added. The characters do not focus on the characters in the room, but talk about the thought changes and encounters of the two staff in the monitoring room.
The prequel gives the cube story a certain degree of rationality, and also explains the source of the frightening cube. But the center of the story has deviated. Think about these two staff members and the two colleagues they were sent in. They seem to be monitoring the people inside, but they are also monitored more closely by their superiors. The people inside know their own situation and danger, and the staff live in another kind of fear, they may be sent in if they are not careful.
The prequel added more elements, but these elements make the cube no longer have a weird style, and gradually move closer to the mainstream. Levels of superiors, the orientation of the government and the military, the expectation of the punishment of bad guys, the soldiers resembling aliens and zombies, and the strong sense of family and family. This Canadian movie is about to become an American commercial blockbuster.
The prequel is more faithful to the cube, takes care of the plot, and inherits the style. The murder scene in the film is very professional, with the charm of the first film, especially the design of shredding people with steel wires, which is very imaginative. The genius staff member in the prequel was finally put in and turned into the idiot who appeared in the first part, with his fingers twitching and muttering words in his mouth. At the end of the first part, he was the only one who walked out and walked into nothingness. There is an explanation for this in the prequel. This is another trap. You must answer an old question: Do you believe in God? Answer NO and you will be burned to ashes; answer YES, I don’t know the consequences, because no one has answered this before.
Three directors are used in the Cube Trilogy, and the quality of the sequel is not satisfactory. However, classics such as "The Godfather" cannot be watched until 3, so how can we demand others.
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