Simple scene and deep connotation

Alena 2022-12-29 13:06:26

I finished watching this movie yesterday. It has a very simple scene and only six characters. The plot is how to escape in a cube. The whole movie only has an hour and a half, but it leaves people with deep thinking.
A friend said that this movie is very beautiful, and different people can see and understand different things through this movie.

A few memorable accidents:

1) The appearance of the old thief, I thought he would lead everyone along, because he was the most experienced, but I didn't expect him to die the fastest.
2) The policeman later became the commander. I thought he was the incarnation of justice, because at the beginning, he was very sensible and told everyone to deal with it calmly, and he could escape.
Unexpectedly, his whole personality changed later, with death His repeated trials and suspicions have shaken his initial beliefs and principles of life.
3) There is also an architect, who should be said to be numb and frustrated at the beginning. In order to redeem his own inner anxiety and self-blame (because he built the outer shell), he still tried his best to help everyone. At the last moment, he was Tired of life outside and didn't want to go out, so he stayed. Because of this, he became a hero.
4) What I admire most is the mathematics student. She was the most scared at the beginning. It can be said that she was panicked. It was the police who gave her courage.
With her wisdom, she became more and more courageous. If it weren't for the police She can come out of the plot.
5) The emergence of a mentally handicapped man, I know it must be the finishing touch to this drama. The mentally handicapped and genius are often related in movies, and this movie is also, but I didn’t expect that he was the only one who escaped in the end. .

When the door is opened and the mentally handicapped man walks out and reappears in the light, it makes people fall into infinite thinking and reflection, whether society is progressing, and civilization is also progressing. . .



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"Cube" is a cleverly conceived movie. Its ingenuity lies in that it explains a sociological principle: the development and future of civilization from the perspective of metaphor, mathematical knowledge and experimentation.
The film begins when six subjects who do not know each other wake up in a maze. They found themselves trapped in a room with windows on six sides leading to adjacent rooms. But the frightening thing is that there may be deadly organs hidden in those adjacent rooms, and the more frightening thing is that the layout of those rooms is exactly the same! How can we get out of this kind of dangerous and directionless labyrinth? The subjects began a arduous exploration.

Scene 1: At the beginning of the film, everyone knew each other in a very friendly manner and decided to unite and rely on each other.
Conclusion 1: Human nature has a collective subconscious that fears loneliness, and it is human instinct to produce socialized connections.

Scenario 2: The old thief with seven escapes experience only fights independently, but is finally accidentally conspired by the agency. Everyone began to follow the police's advice and reached a consensus on the course of action to be taken next.
Conclusion 2: In the face of a complex and dangerous environment, individualism is not feasible. Human beings need to use the power of "organization" to lead everyone to jointly complete the task of fighting the external environment.

Scenario 3: Students in the Department of Mathematics discovered the relationship between the room number and the hazard coefficient, thus avoiding the unnecessary sacrifice of blindly trespassing, and searching for a way out has since entered an orderly state.
Conclusion 3: In the process of striving for survival, human beings have no choice but to learn to analyze and grasp the laws of nature, that is, to accumulate knowledge. The emergence of science is the inevitable result of the struggle between man and nature.

Scene 4: The appearance of a mentally handicapped man. The mentally handicapped people who are considered to be of no help to escaping from the maze and will cause trouble are obviously not welcomed by everyone, and the police are particularly obvious on this point. He urged that the mentally handicapped be thrown away, but he was strongly opposed by doctors whose profession is to save the dying and heal the wounded. Others were unable to make a clear statement due to morality, so the mentally retarded were stayed on the road with them.
Conclusion 4: A rational social system always takes interest as its greatest starting point, but we sometimes have some residual human elements that make our choices less sensible. The struggle between emotion and reason always wins through interaction. Although many times a rational choice is only the result of analysis from the current perspective, it may not be the best choice from a long-term perspective, but at the time of making a decision, almost everyone feels that their choice is justified.

Scene 5: The contradiction between the doctor and the police became more and more obvious, and the police finally took the opportunity to murder her.
Conclusion 5: Selfish, cold-blooded politics and warm-hearted humanity are always dead and dead.

Scene 6: The remaining people see through the ugly nature of the police and resolutely abandon him.
Conclusion 6: When civilization develops to a certain stage, soft constraints such as morality will replace rigid laws and regulations, and the government will be regarded as a low-level management tool and abandoned.

Scene 7: The key to the problem is pushed to the astronomical calculations that the mathematics students cannot complete. Just when they were desperate, the mentally retarded played a magical role and miraculously helped them complete this task.
Conclusion 7: 1. When science enters a difficult situation, it often relies on some unconventional forces (such as sparks of inspiration) to achieve breakthroughs. Its development curve is not a smooth and coherent shape, but a stepped transition with obvious nodes; 2. The so-called mentally handicapped does not necessarily mean that the intelligence is underdeveloped. Perhaps their intelligence develops non-linearly and discontinuously, reaching a very prominent height in certain areas, instead of developing in a balanced manner like ordinary people. I doubt whether we are qualified to give others the definition of mentally handicapped. Perhaps our definition of IQ itself is extreme and incomplete.

Scene 8: At the moment when the door to the labyrinth is finally opened, the architect refuses to go out because he has lost interest in life. The female student in the mathematics department is murdered by the police. In the end, the policeman was dragged by the grieving architect and stayed in the maze forever, while the mentally handicapped Shi Shiran towards the light...
Conclusion 8: The science produced by human creation cannot save mankind itself after all. As long as a society is formed, the inferior nature of society itself is something we cannot get rid of. As for the life-saving straw, it turned out to be abandoning all the natural sciences and social sciences called "civilization" that we have created, destroying everything we carefully manage, and moving toward a new life in a pure and extremely original state.

To sum up, the final conclusion is as follows:
Cube can be regarded as a laboratory to investigate the development process of human civilization: human beings are born with a fear of loneliness and the unknown, they will instinctively gather together to seek safety; experience personal After the blood lesson of heroism, mankind formed a basic social model and produced leadership and institutions; in order to survive in a dangerous environment, mankind was forced to explore the laws of nature, accumulate knowledge, and thus produced science; In the process of scientific development, human beings recognize the law of survival of the fittest. They must become selfish to maximize their own interests. However, the fragile nature and indecision of human nature often hinder the pace of human development, so humanity abandons humanity. ; But at the same time the barbaric nature and ugly face revealed by the system have been spurned by science. Human beings have given up their expectations of sociology and turned to rationalism; but science is not omnipotent after all. It allows mankind to see the dawn before dawn, but it is powerless. To complete the final progress, human instincts and subconsciousness played a key role at this time; human understanding cannot figure this out, and even doubts about the future of science. The politics of sociology has revived in an attempt to bring humans under control. In the chessboard, but science has exerted its final strength and the ugly politics will end up-the ultimate way out of human civilization is to return to the simplicity of a newborn baby. All the complicated intrigues have become a cloud of smoke, and the spiral development essence of negation has been obtained. Deeply manifested.

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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.