No, this is not the competent little thriller from 1997 (reviewed in BATHOS #6) spawning two perfectly superfluous sequels and a lot of unpleasant nonsense about people for no good reason being tortured in small rooms by unknown assailants. It is a silly, self-complacent sketch made in 1969 and purporting to say something about something or other.
Still, the basic concept (if you can call it that) is the same, a man caught inside a cube. He doesn't know why, nor has he got a lot of time to think about it, since he is constantly visited by funny guys, all presenting him with ample opportunity to escape.
Of course, his situation is completely surreal, which in this case means that it makes no sense whatsoever. Except of course, as any three-year-old will have divined after five minutes, that it is all about modern man being trapped by the conventions of society.
And if you haven't guessed, you will be constantly reminded by hip girls and folksingers talking and singing about how deluded we all are. Unfortunately, this is not about the games people play.
It is about what underdeveloped overpaid television executives fresh out of high school think about the rotten society that gives them cameras to play with. GET A HAIRCUT!
Since the guy is obviously only confined by the idiotic script, it has none of the suspense of THE PRISONER, and it's just as far from the hilariously straight-faced send-up of our television-engineered reality by the Pythons. The cube looks like a toilet, and that's where this crap belongs.
Watching it is like spending an hour in a cube make that ten hours! Stick to Muppets, Jimmy.
Still, the basic concept (if you can call it that) is the same, a man caught inside a cube. He doesn't know why, nor has he got a lot of time to think about it, since he is constantly visited by funny guys, all presenting him with ample opportunity to escape.
Of course, his situation is completely surreal, which in this case means that it makes no sense whatsoever. Except of course, as any three-year-old will have divined after five minutes, that it is all about modern man being trapped by the conventions of society.
And if you haven't guessed, you will be constantly reminded by hip girls and folksingers talking and singing about how deluded we all are. Unfortunately, this is not about the games people play.
It is about what underdeveloped overpaid television executives fresh out of high school think about the rotten society that gives them cameras to play with. GET A HAIRCUT!
Since the guy is obviously only confined by the idiotic script, it has none of the suspense of THE PRISONER, and it's just as far from the hilariously straight-faced send-up of our television-engineered reality by the Pythons. The cube looks like a toilet, and that's where this crap belongs.
Watching it is like spending an hour in a cube make that ten hours! Stick to Muppets, Jimmy.