My father found this the other day on some kind of public domain video sight, and wanted my thoughts on it. I suppose that he thought that because I was a fan of "Cube" that this might make for an interesting unintentional precursor...
This movie was just odd...
I could see why one might think that "Cube" would be a distant cousin to this movie though...
My problem was that in the end seemed like such a gross waste of time. In the beginning it seemed like it could have been an interesting topic of philosophical discourse. Why didn't the man just walk out of the cube? Why didn't he just say screw you if it's not my door, I'm leaving anyway...
You could, at that, point argue that he was simply a victim of a power telling him what to do. Someone said that he couldn't leave through a door because it wasn't "his" door. He never thought to question it, he just obeyed...
On the other hand you could argue that the cube was his own doing, and that he couldn't leave because he chose not to. All the characters were elements of his subconscious trying to cure him of his losing grip on reality. That was the way it seemed to go up until the end...
In the end, he finally chose to leave, and that he finally stated that he had a gripe on reality and that no one could take away the one piece of reality that was his self. He had identity, he had form, he felt, he bled...
And then he walks out of the cube with all the world that he created applauding because he now understood his place in reality...
But then it's puts him right at back to where he started again in the cube, and the movie ends...
Which one can only logically deduce that he was simply insane suffering from some sort of mania...
But then one could argue, was the cube his source of insanity, or was his insanity the source of the cube.
You could twist yourself into a nice little mental pretzel trying to figure that one out...
But like most things that came out of that era, it wasn't the definitive end that was important as it was "what did you think".
And this movie would do nice to sit around a group and discuss it. However seeing as how the movie had no end and no definitive conclusion it would be impossible to actually have a conversation that could conclude. It would be nice for about 20 minutes of argument, then ultimately be abandoned because of the impossibility of a definite conclusion...
even writing about it is a circle jerk...
This movie was just odd...
I could see why one might think that "Cube" would be a distant cousin to this movie though...
My problem was that in the end seemed like such a gross waste of time. In the beginning it seemed like it could have been an interesting topic of philosophical discourse. Why didn't the man just walk out of the cube? Why didn't he just say screw you if it's not my door, I'm leaving anyway...
You could, at that, point argue that he was simply a victim of a power telling him what to do. Someone said that he couldn't leave through a door because it wasn't "his" door. He never thought to question it, he just obeyed...
On the other hand you could argue that the cube was his own doing, and that he couldn't leave because he chose not to. All the characters were elements of his subconscious trying to cure him of his losing grip on reality. That was the way it seemed to go up until the end...
In the end, he finally chose to leave, and that he finally stated that he had a gripe on reality and that no one could take away the one piece of reality that was his self. He had identity, he had form, he felt, he bled...
And then he walks out of the cube with all the world that he created applauding because he now understood his place in reality...
But then it's puts him right at back to where he started again in the cube, and the movie ends...
Which one can only logically deduce that he was simply insane suffering from some sort of mania...
But then one could argue, was the cube his source of insanity, or was his insanity the source of the cube.
You could twist yourself into a nice little mental pretzel trying to figure that one out...
But like most things that came out of that era, it wasn't the definitive end that was important as it was "what did you think".
And this movie would do nice to sit around a group and discuss it. However seeing as how the movie had no end and no definitive conclusion it would be impossible to actually have a conversation that could conclude. It would be nice for about 20 minutes of argument, then ultimately be abandoned because of the impossibility of a definite conclusion...
even writing about it is a circle jerk...