It is difficult to imagine a movie without the spicy elements of action, adventure, romance, omnipotent heroes, deadly villains. And yet, imagine a film that has a puzzle as its central driving force. Actually, a series of puzzles...
Imagine you wake up in an unknown room. The last thing you remember is doing something ordinary in an ordinary and familiar environment, like your home or your work-place. And the next thing, you wake up in this room. Its a medium-sized room. A cube-shaped one. All painted uniformly with a single colour. Each wall has a little hatch at its center. Ladders lead towards the hatch from up, as well as down. Hand-holds on the ceiling to access the one there. You go and open a hatch. it leads to another cube-shaped room. Albeit, with a different-coloured lights / walls. Each hatch opens up in another cube-shaped room.
Where are you? How did you come here? How do you get out? Why are you here? What is this place? How do you get out of here? And while you are trying to figure that out, you better watch your step. For some some of these rooms may hold unpleasant surprises...
This is the puzzle of the cube. It starts with a set of strangers trapped in a series of cube-shaped rooms. How did they get here? What is this place? Who built it? What is its purpose? Why were they brought here like this? How big is this place anyway? And where the heck is it? The movie does not complicate itself in order to explain away these conundrums. Though, the characters engage in rational discussions while they try to figure out what exactly is going on. As the story progresses, they try to contemplate on some rational possibilities to these questions. And their probable conclusions are revealing, intellectual, profound and rational.
There are no heroes and no villains here. No known heroes at least, and no known villains. Just a bunch of strangers in a race against time to solve puzzles of the cube - that's what fuels the pace of the movie. And finally, it is a revealing exploration of how humans react under pressure, exhaustion and desperation...
It does not explore the past lives of the characters much. Nor does it add unnecessary emotions and romance. Yet the personality of each character is plausibly well defined as the movie progresses.
The pace of the movie never slackens. Every few minutes, we are treated with new revelations about the intricate puzzles of the Cube. And though the movie purposefully does not clutter it plot to answer some of the questions about the purpose and existence of the Cube, it does end with a satisfactory, if a bit unexpected climax.
Its a well-thought of movie, that may not have achieved financial success, but, over the years, has become a cult classic. To this day, it remains one of my favourite movies in the puzzle genre (not that there are many movie to appear under this genre - unfortunately).
If you like movies with a bit more brain and a bit less spice in them, an unusual and unique concept and rational plot-line, then you will certainly enjoy this one, the same way I did.
Imagine you wake up in an unknown room. The last thing you remember is doing something ordinary in an ordinary and familiar environment, like your home or your work-place. And the next thing, you wake up in this room. Its a medium-sized room. A cube-shaped one. All painted uniformly with a single colour. Each wall has a little hatch at its center. Ladders lead towards the hatch from up, as well as down. Hand-holds on the ceiling to access the one there. You go and open a hatch. it leads to another cube-shaped room. Albeit, with a different-coloured lights / walls. Each hatch opens up in another cube-shaped room.
Where are you? How did you come here? How do you get out? Why are you here? What is this place? How do you get out of here? And while you are trying to figure that out, you better watch your step. For some some of these rooms may hold unpleasant surprises...
This is the puzzle of the cube. It starts with a set of strangers trapped in a series of cube-shaped rooms. How did they get here? What is this place? Who built it? What is its purpose? Why were they brought here like this? How big is this place anyway? And where the heck is it? The movie does not complicate itself in order to explain away these conundrums. Though, the characters engage in rational discussions while they try to figure out what exactly is going on. As the story progresses, they try to contemplate on some rational possibilities to these questions. And their probable conclusions are revealing, intellectual, profound and rational.
There are no heroes and no villains here. No known heroes at least, and no known villains. Just a bunch of strangers in a race against time to solve puzzles of the cube - that's what fuels the pace of the movie. And finally, it is a revealing exploration of how humans react under pressure, exhaustion and desperation...
It does not explore the past lives of the characters much. Nor does it add unnecessary emotions and romance. Yet the personality of each character is plausibly well defined as the movie progresses.
The pace of the movie never slackens. Every few minutes, we are treated with new revelations about the intricate puzzles of the Cube. And though the movie purposefully does not clutter it plot to answer some of the questions about the purpose and existence of the Cube, it does end with a satisfactory, if a bit unexpected climax.
Its a well-thought of movie, that may not have achieved financial success, but, over the years, has become a cult classic. To this day, it remains one of my favourite movies in the puzzle genre (not that there are many movie to appear under this genre - unfortunately).
If you like movies with a bit more brain and a bit less spice in them, an unusual and unique concept and rational plot-line, then you will certainly enjoy this one, the same way I did.
My Ratings: 4
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