The Philosophy of CUBE Explored

Cube is a 1997 Canadian independent science-fiction horror film directed and co-written by Vincenzo Natali about a group of strangers awaken to find themselves in a giant cube construct.
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[@SpookyBitch__]

Missed opportunity to cast Ice Cube in this one 🤭

[@damianstarks3338]

😂😂🤣🤣 good one.

[@roeimakikiderikadragontwin9898]

(Mortadela Furiosa) nice one.

[@CHRISPYakaKON]

💀💀

[@sammiller4392]

My hat is like a sharks fin

[@Gnilggig]

Where do you live? I just wanna talk

[@DPLEET]

All of the characters are named after prisons: Alderson Federal Prison Camp (US), Centre pénitentiaire de Rennes (France), Holloway Women's Prison (UK), Kazan Prison (Russia), Leavenworth Prison (US), San Quentin State Prison (US)

[@anticlickbait]

How interesting. Good guess!

[@jpham5422]

Holy shit!

[@JobeStroud]

I never noticed that. Good catch.

[@SpookyBitch__]

Yet no Shawshank State Prison...shame😅

[@helplessblobfish3935]

They also have qualities that are similar to the characters that are named after them (Kazan is a mental asylum.)

[@Starteller]

Something important that people might have missed Kasan right at the beginning do not want to explore the maze and wants to stay in the same room he arrived in. It was the best solution since the entrance was the exit.

[@ticogoodboy2134]

No, actually he just said that he doesn't like red rooms and he wanted to go back to the blue room. They then tell him that they gonna find him another blue room. However the magical bridge room isn't blue, so he would have been sitting there forever. 🤷‍♀️

[@ec5897]

@@ticogoodboy2134 hmm. I wonder if the room color reference is related to the pills in The Matrix. :/

[@ticogoodboy2134]

@@ec5897 Hmm, naaa. I mean, it makes a big difference in Matrix if you take the blue or the red pill. In the cube you are in the cube. You gonna die no matter if blue or red room. 🤷‍♀️

[@jimmyfennessy54]

I think you're mixing up Kazan with Leaven, she was the one who pointed out that if they stayed in the cube they started in like she wanted to do then they'd have gone just as far

[@jimmyfennessy54]

@@ec5897 No, the colors of the cube are that of Rubik's cubes

[@ColdFuse96]

"Big Brother is not watching you." I think thats even scarier, because if no one is pulling the strings to make you fail, and if you find out you were trying to please something/someone that never existed, then who/what have you been working for this whole time????

[@susmithamanoj134]

Damn !!

[@jaylynpayne1]

He was lying because that doesn’t explain how they all randomly ended up there. They were definitely abducted and there is definitely something or someone controlling that cube or involved

[@The_Big_Jay]

Well there's you're problem. You're trying to please/be accepted by "Big Brother". Big Brother not watching you is what's called freedom.

[@matildarose]

I agree. I think it speaks to people's need for answers in an uncertain world sometimes leading to people following conspiracies on a cult level. It provides definite answers to issues that may be more complex or harder to explain.

[@Zekrom569]

@Fat Cat That's true, basically in a similar fashion, that's how traditions are created. Someone starts something and calls people to do it at specific timeframes, and then this thing is passed from generation to generation without knowing the meaning or purpose of the tradition, they just do it habitually and because it was ingrained to them at childhood.

[@user-pc7ef5sb6x]

I always saw Cube as an allegory of Corporate waste and misallocation of resources. Where creating something that has no fundamental purpose other than the purpose of creation.

[@johnbrown2163]

Interesting.

[@joshuathomas5626]

If I remember right one of the movies exposes the cube as being a govt project, which unfortunately means it was probably even more pointless.

[@notoriousbig3k]

​@@joshuathomas5626 yes it was and was lead by the Overseers of the project it was a mind trick if u stay put or risk ure life to save ure life if it meant dying some kind of that bullshit

[@specialnewb9821]

Interesting that you see it as corporate waste and misallocation. Because creation for the fundamental purpose of creation also produces.... art.

[@AreEia]

I like your idea, and I both agree and disagree. As for my part I saw it as an allegory of the dangers of having misplaced faith that a system/ideology/mindset must be meaningful/purposful. Most ideologies/mindsets we have seen troughout history disguises themselves as something perfect and something that has worth way above any number of individuals, while at the same time condemming and striking hard against any and all criticism of said system/ideology. As any meaningful criticism will always expose the ever present flaws in any human made ideology/outlook. But I think that is one of the great things about this movie, it can not only have several different interpretations, but all of them can be correct as well! One of the few truly multilayered movies I know about. A kind of cinematic "rorschach test" if you will :)

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

NYAT: The philosophy of Cube CUBE WRITERS: Wow, we never thought that deep

[@JOSH2625]

lol right

[@Mechimmortal]

That's what I'm thinking. But thats the beauty in interpreting art lol.

[@campkira]

yeah clear the writer just want to troll aveage human... i saw this moive and at the time.. all the i think is this is one of the most pointless ending... so a mad man... survived.. what a surpisng.. it was early 2000's...

[@traviscummings9178]

"Uh, yeah, sure, that's exactly what I meant..."

[@milfredcummings717]

👈👀

[@morlockmeat]

There was something about this movie that reminded me of Hellraiser. Almost like they were trapped inside the Lament Configuration itself. All that was missing was Pinhead!

[@campkira]

it was the end of 90's.... all moive are like that...

[@feathero3]

I had that same feeling! I think it had to do with the abstract torture/murder devices from the cube.

[@morlockmeat]

@@feathero3 - Yup, that was certainly part of it.

[@abone2pick]

A crossover between those two would be legendary....... EVEN IN HELL.

[@morlockmeat]

@@abone2pick - 😈

[@iHaveTheDocuments]

They killed the most interesting character way too early, Ren.

[@orc001]

How bout the tard? Thought he was interesting, and he lived

[@shounaksengupta3160]

@@orc001 THE TARD LIVES ON!!1!!1

[@TheChugg11]

Shounak Sengupta Hooray for the late guy! (Coz he’s tardy🙂)

[@geronimo5537]

Yeah I always thought Ren died far to early. I always felt he should have killed late movie. It feels like a part of the movie is forever missing.

[@campkira]

this movie is a troll...

[@jelloenjoyer4839]

Cube was one of the most haunting movies I saw as a kid, only when I became older did I start to appreciate how many levels the true experience is on. I appreciate movies that explore more than just the physical environment, but also the psychological space!

[@SleepyElla0173]

Yeah same, I've always wanted to know the origins of the cube itself

[@angrypredator2704]

This is one of those movies that’s scary not because it’s particularly gory or lovecraftian; but that it just screws with your mind

[@singletona082]

Cube, Scifi's Saw franchise before Saw came out.

[@themedia1271]

I remember someone telling me that this movie actually influenced SAW. I don't know if that is true or not.

[@derek4986]

@@themedia1271 maybe but I'd take cube over any saw film.

[@Eldritch-1]

@@themedia1271 Italian Gialli influenced the first Saw, money influenced the rest.

[@NegaZxyz]

Everyone: The cube means this! No it means that! NO THIS! NO THAT! The creators: I-I just wanted to make a scary movie about cubes killing people....

[@valmid5069]

The Curtains Are Blue

[@arnavborole7039]

@@valmid5069 sadness

[@jackieyo6128]

Surely it's not that deep as this video implies but they wanted to make it deeper for sure or the conversation about who is behind it (government, military, no one,it has a porpouse, it hasn't and so on...) wouldn't happen. P.S: I know yours is a joke, i just wanted to add this in any case ahah

[@cbandit7715]

I dotb want to know what the cube is about. I don't waste to know the sequels. I just want the mystery

[@Woomiasty]

@@valmid5069 and this room is green

[@jacoblott4002]

I never seen this. Alot of these movies I haven't seen but I just love ur break downs

[@m.sordam2430]

I can recommand it

[@PineappledoesnotbelongonPizza2]

Watch the first one all the other sequels are trash. I felt robbed even though I watched them for free.

[@outletandfork8849]

I think it's on yt movies rn

[@hippo2432]

I highly recommend watching all three

[@SlaytanicSuperstarr]

Watched it free on YT a couple months agao

[@РемиБоняшки]

The cube is the real life. We struggle, we fight, we plan and in the end we die one way or another. Kazan is the purest individual of all. He does not experience hate, greedynes or aggression. That is why he made to escape in the end and goes into the light symbolizing the heaven.

[@mirzaghalib8659]

However, he would not have made it anywhere without the assistance of the others....

[@РемиБоняшки]

@@mirzaghalib8659 have you watched the movie. They should have stayed in the same room.

[@martinsoukup562]

@@РемиБоняшки but he was not in that room.

[@observeoutofthebox7806]

Hahaha nah lol this isn't religious or spiritual or anything. It's just a movie with some great maths especially involving cartesian coordinates, permutations and combinations and number sets. It's about how problems in life are solved and how some people let emotion get in the way or try to be too behavioural. It's more maths than some non existing religious shit lol

[@ruslankazimov622]

Real life ? They all definitely begin to "game of survivial" under equal condition. All offered equal chance to live, all stripped of their family's status, inside a cold and empty cube with no pre-determined culture and each of their next step is equally dangerous. They all have one, uniform ambition there... unlike real world. They don't start with great disadvantage like being spawned in trapped room... irl, you sometimes get to spawn into much worse room than others, sometimes with no door to other rooms.

[@jesserothhammer7378]

Kezan's role works until the sequels. He was lobotomized and thrown in.

[@notoriousbig3k]

and survived cus he knew by instinct how to solve it

[@ShaneWalta]

There were sequels? This was one of the worst films I've ever seen, how could a studio greenlight sequels?

[@jesserothhammer7378]

@@ShaneWalta yeah. Kezan was in the 3rd or 4th. He was the guy that original did the math in making it, which is why he knew the math after his lobotomy. Is your mind blown? Whaaaaaaat?

[@jesserothhammer7378]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan ooh nitpicky. So there was 3 movies and he was in the 3rd. Wrong prefix. I guess I should go kill myself. 🙄

[@jesserothhammer7378]

@@Josep_Hernandez_Lujan what are you talking about? I didn't say a thing about you not vaping. You don't have to prove we vape. We all believe you.

[@johnathanmoore8587]

The truth is that they’re all D-class personnel, and the Cube is some kind of SCP.

[@clintparsons3989]

You just changed the way I view the cube movies forever.

[@chrisreynolds2565]

Exactly. I love watching the movie "Annihilation" (2018) with that mindset

[@marinakatrin2388]

I would put this sadistic cube in keter class.

[@fs5866]

Cube is an Euclid,it has no ability or potential to endanger all of humanity

[@anticlickbait]

I'm a bit noob about SCP but I got it haha

[@lonerkyle02]

I’m so glad you did a video on this loss gem of a movie!! Not only is it one of my favorite sci-fi, horror, thriller movies, but it’s also got a special place in my heart for being one of the few movies I got to watch with my father back in the day. Thanks for the memories bud!

[@stonegiant4]

The Worth character is nihilistic because he's done this before, in stargate Atlantis as McKay.

[@stonegiant4]

Or I guess it's chronologically wrong but I'm gonna keep it as my cannon.

[@ANTSEMUT1]

@@stonegiant4 i thought i was the only one to remember him as Rodney McKay.

[@jademoon7938]

I spent a couple months without cable, before Netflix, and watched the entire series of Stargate Atlantis a couple times. I actually really liked that show. Idk why. Maybe it's because I watched Star Trek as a kid with my dad. I don't usually go for that kind of show, but I'm glad I watched it. Plus Ronon was smoking hot. That helped.

[@Silverfirefly1]

I think that this role secured him the Stargate gig. The character is a good showcase for the range that the Stargate role needed.

[@Pete...NoNotThatOne]

He was also in Nothing, another very small movie with an out-there premise.

[@SKy_the_Thunder]

*Welcome to the Aperture Science computer-aided Enrichment Center*

[@notoriousbig3k]

cut it out Gladis ure subject left the lab and left the Portal Gun here

[@vitaurea]

*cue Aperture™ intro theme *

[@D3g3no]

I played portal 1 week ago lmao

[@doctorjimmy16]

Is this the companion cube true nature?

[@urfaes6878]

The biggest lesson "The Cube" has taught me is : sometimes you just have to stay still. Remember who escapes "The Cube" and the location. Then realize it's human impulse to push forward.

[@bitchcraftwitch351]

Just like the Buddha surrendering all goals and ambitions to stay still and know the truth.

[@doctorhacks1452]

This film deserves so much more attention, it’s so well crafted

[@Sniffzoer]

This movie contains ~6 actors and uses 1 cube room as a set, but it still have more thought and gives you alot more to think about than the whole marvel and DC saga combined.

[@renesrelics]

🙄🙄

[@dingaonhockey]

​@@renesrelics😂 don't you roll your eyes at a 2 year old comment. Maybe he's changed his mind since then and now is a huge marvel fan

[@thecalebwalker]

​@@dingaonhockeyYeah, the last two years of the MCU have been the best so far! The last two years have really showcased the masterpiece that is the MCU, each movie a separate, perfect cube--all part of one giant, perfect cube! Nah, but fr this Cube movie is easily better than almost every Marvel movie lol except for Spider-Man 2 that shit is dope and also better than almost every MCU movie 🤟🖕

[@yeti1835]

@@thecalebwalker tobey maguire spidey 2?

[@thecalebwalker]

@@yeti1835 don't tell Harry

[@kat8559]

Love this series, love this video. This is the kind of media crit I like to see on youtube. All of these readings are so interesting and I think all of them have their merits. Definitely one of the reasons this movie is so good, it's so evocative of larger ideas

[@Matt-yj1lz]

My science teacher showed this to us in class lol

[@davefrance4355]

That’s awesome 😂

[@diarrhea373]

You have a cool teacher

[@Mr_Originality]

Why?

[@sidology1.0]

I hope yall was at least in college lol 😆

[@thrxwolf7039]

@@sidology1.0 right? Some stuff is pretty explicit haha

[@icecubes_for_the_boiling_frogs]

Guess I'm weird, as I always saw cube as an exercise in cooperation. Levin describes this when he points out each person's skills. His failure comes from not realizing how their personalities also play a role in their survival. The Cube itself takes advantage of human nature in that it offers all the solutions to anyone patient enough to analyze the entirety of their surroundings while giving false solutions that are easier to discover. But I also feel like this is one of those movies that is infinitely interpretable and can be made to fit any view you hold so long as you don't take the sequel or prequel into consideration.

[@FieldBoy111]

The most memorable idea for me about the cube movie is the whole deal about the cold uncaring circumstances and it doesn't matter how much you cry or get mad its simply a math problem you have to solve or else your simply dead. Cube=real life

[@StreetSoulLover]

“The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.” Bertrand Russell

[@nevercommentnotevenonce9334]

Excellently put

[@jro3213]

*Quentin describes this

[@mattschroeder3432]

the unique guy is the spare tire you dont realize how much you need one until you do.

[@AtamskArchadian]

This video and it’s accompanied hypotheticals had my mind jumping through as many mental hoops as it did when I first saw The Cube as a kid. Though that’s why I love these vids. They give me fresh, interesting perspectives from others that my subconscious can chew on throughout the day.

[@anticlickbait]

I don't complaint about how bad it was. Because at the same time it was so good. I loved the sequels too. I was a bit obsessed with these movies. Thanks for the review 👏

[@johnbrown2163]

Same. No worries.

[@donnmckee4973]

Same here

[@blazednhazed71]

Yeah it seemed cheap using the same set over and over in filming but it was such a brilliant execution. Idk I think its a great movie

[@johnbrown2163]

@@blazednhazed71 I agree.

[@reiakari]

These movies gave me the same vibes as The Outer Limits (the 90s reboot). It may be the cast/crew overlaps. I may just be biased to like low budget scifi because growing up my dad would make marathons of cheesy/cheap scifi movies on Saturdays.

[@shainewhite2781]

Do Full Metal Jacket as well. "This my rifle, this is my gun, this is for fighting, this is for fun."

[@metalcoremad]

Watched these all recently on Amazon and been obsessed since, really has stayed in my mind! So glad you've done a video on it!!! Great work

[@mikebasil4832]

Thank you for your excellent analysis of one of the most unique sci-fi horror classics of all time.

[@tymonritco8578]

An amazing Canadian indie film that is crazy deep when you stop to think about it. I love that is was a single cube used for the entire set and just a different light set to create the mood per room. So awesome to see this being discussed as I saw this just a few years after it came out.

[@BrendanBanz]

I am a huge fan of your new "Philosophy Of" style of videos and particularly the analysis from other established essays/commentary on the manner. As far as a possible way to expand on your new approach, I would find it very interesting if you would reflect deeper upon the other commentaries/essays (possibly in relation to your own take on the movie). As well if you could put citations in the description then that could be useful for anyone wanting to read further from your sources. Excellent work

[@omarabdullah24]

Thanks to this channel I was able to find this movie again. For years I struggled to remember the name of this movie plus I didn’t know it had a sequel and prequel which I watched and enjoyed.

[@chulkcha]

This brings back the time when I was in high school watching this movie. What a mind blowing movie back then.

[@barechylls9508]

I love your work my dude, these kinds of explanatory videos are some of my favourites to watch and yours are the highest quality. My only memory of the cube movies is trying to eat spaghetti while watching a mans skin fall off in cube zero

[@sphere7158]

Trap inside of a death cube, Jigsaw would love this design

[@JamilaJibril-e8h]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@jerryonlychild7003]

I don't think he would. Jigsaw I think, would see this as too straightforward. And its not fair if you can die because you can't do math.

[@seenundercygnus6870]

Have you ever seen the film, Nothing? It is about two guys who wish the world away till nothing is left but them and their house. Then once the world gone they start to explore the nothingness and their new found power. It stars two of the same actors and is one of my favorite movies. I like it because of its interesting perspective on existence and materialism. You really should watch it, even if you don't write an essay on it. It's quite entertaining and rather well done.

[@TRUMP-2024-STF]

Going to find it now.

[@undergroundvideos1732]

Thanks for a suggestion

[@Werewolf914]

Never heard of it, premise sounds promising though, I'll have to look it up.

[@BeemoPwns]

I love this movie! And this breakdown just made me appreciate it even more! Great job!

[@wackywackwack5430]

This movie sacred me a lot when I was a kid

[@campkira]

you had not see shit yeah.. my dad love watch horror movie when he wake up around 3am... so i sleep with horor moive... no nightmare.. hearing horror soundtrack now just got me sleepy...they do wake me up from time to time but no fear...

[@ShakaZ3D]

So glad you reviewed this movie bub. Its not a movie many people have seen and I almost can't believe it made it here. Incredible. Just for kicks how about the Graboids from Tremors?

[@donnmckee4973]

Been asking for that for a bit lol. I'm pleasantly surprised Cube made it here too

[@ShakaZ3D]

Another show I'd like to see here is the Westworld characters. I'd love to hear his thoughts on that show

[@Ghost571921]

I love the breakdown of this movie it’s definitely thought provoking. This was a really good underrated film and if you like this I recommend you watch and breakdown The Circle

[@FractalCodex7]

Awesome commentary. I saw this in the 90's and it blew me away. I knew it had a deeper meaning to just being a scary sci-fi movie. Twenty years on and now I've woken up and understand its meaning to be essentially the second one described, that being the cube represents the material plane with the white light representing the spiritual plane. As Yeshua said, "unless you be as a child you will not enter the Kingdom of Heaven". In other words until you (ironically) grow up (as in lose the ego and become an innocent loving being) you're not allowed to get out and go to higher places. 😇 So tell me soul, do you remember how you got here? You don't right. Funny about that. I guarantee you'll be back until you've figured out how to be a loving being with no attachment to the physical plane (lusts) and a desire to serve others instead of self... that and balancing out your karma. Cube has parallels with The Matrix, and the notion that we've been somehow sucked into a game run by intelligent soulless creatures... also known as A.I. who use our connection to Source to power their technology. This lines up with certain Gnostic teachings abiut the Demiurge and the Archons. * see also Dark City.

[@Dougster44719]

You have got to be one of my favorite creators on this platform, and I'll be honest probably the thing I love most about your work is that you say "X Explored" Or "Y Explored" and you don't, like almost all other creators that make content similar to this, call it "X Explained" as if they're talking down to us and sharing knowledge we couldn't possibly of had. I appreciate that immensely.

[@divindechild]

I'm not sure what you think is outdated about the portrayal of the handicapped character. I have encountered several people during my life that exhibit similar physical, mental and emotional characteristics. They were not mathematical geniuses mind you but his behaviors I found to be very realistic. Unless I am misunderstanding something about your statement.

[@garethllewellyn215]

As in outdated in the way he was seen as useless and needed to be mothered etc not the actors physical mannerism etc..i think lol

[@divindechild]

@@garethllewellyn215 Ok. That would make more sense.

[@experienceofchris1108]

XP-Gamer I mean mentally handicapped people do have to be mothered a lot of the time?

[@pwabd2784]

I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR YOU TO COVER THESE MOVIES FOR SO LONG!

[@TheLyingFigure]

The cube sequels imo are the best example of an amazing premise executed poorly.

[@xandror]

Did you see the Japanese remake?

[@therebel4332]

They had to do something different though,, you cant just do the same premise again or its a remake. Cube 2 is good,, it explores different dimensions and parallel realities crossing over,, the only thing wrong with it is the ending implying a government type control,, cut the last 2 minutes out and its another masterpiece in my opinion. Cube Zero for all its faults keeps it vague who actually runs and owns it,, jax is some sort of high up in the design but not the boss,, its a good movie in that you do get to see how its operated. Cube 1 is the best of the three of course,,, but the other two are also great.

[@Eldritch-1]

Really an example of morons cashing in on ideas they can't remotely grasp.

[@ChallockStudios]

I personally found that some of the themes is also our ability to stand by our beliefs or conviction in times of pressure as well questioning if human worth is intrinsic or based is based on how one can further improve society. I hadn’t even thought about most of these though, great vid

[@rubenp8320]

While I definitely enjoy the other fun breakdowns, this is def my favorite video. With the expectations of some horror but with the Kafkaesque nightmare of the Cube's philosophy. Def helped me think. Nice Job!

[@barbieblues7639]

Did someone really say Kafkaesque? 😂

[@dequariuswalker4739]

Took me a while to find this movie. Every other search kept bringing me to escape room.

[@themartialartist1929]

BEEN WAITING YEARS FOR THIS FINALLY

[@leeskelly1476]

About time you did this one. Been asking for it for over a year now lol. Hope you do the other two in the series too.

[@Theggman83]

@dHewlett actor from Cube and Stargate has a channel here on KZbin.

[@shinkiro403]

And don't forget Boa vs Python

[@Theggman83]

@@shinkiro403 hahaha, yeah, of course. How could I forget that one?! 😏

[@ANTSEMUT1]

Nice to see Someone else recognise Rodney McKay.

[@Theggman83]

@@ANTSEMUT1 I loved to hate that guy. Lol .. But Hewlett is a hell of a nice guy. I enjoy his channel just because of his positivity.

[@HippyNinjaSimmy]

And a brilliant Twitch channel!

[@sesiomsert6801]

Thank you for breaking this down to every strand.

[@CBRN-115]

So in order to survive in such a bleak, machine-like world that is today, we have to be a savant? As for me, my nihilism will one day end me like that nihilistic guy

[@mikaelstradwick]

Maybe

[@damianpos8832]

Congrats on beeing professional useless person...... Nihilism just doesnt have a point...

[@RyanFromUltrasound]

That's one way to look at it. The misfits that survive and succeed usually have innate abilities - savants. But I think average people can make it too. It's just easier for people to participate in the machine if they are able to. You have to bet on yourself over and over again. Sooner or later you make it, or you die.

[@RyanFromUltrasound]

@@damianpos8832 That seems like a rather Nihilistic statement :P

[@RyanFromUltrasound]

@Butt Head I felt the allegory suggests that the only people that escape are the ones that reject both collectives - the capitalists and the socialists. Just serve yourself. No ideal is worth fighting for more than your own success. Socialism doesn't care about you and neither does Capitalism.

[@WarMaker-1243]

I really like the new intro man! Nice job!

[@sedricksupreme]

Thanks for making this Niat, Cube is one of my favorite series. I like Hypercube best.

[@Eldritch-1]

Why?

[@serendipity_hunter3974]

I love love love cube. I would love to see someone do a more updated movie of cube

[@randysidhu1418]

I usually like this channels take on movies, but this time I beg to differ. The movie tells you what is it about in Worth's speech. It's a headless monster, anyone who has worked with bureaucracy where you feel trapped in a pointless situation and the end goals of everyone are not being met, will relate to this film. It's when a company division or government department is in the business of "make work" projects, the normal ppl die and the mentally underdeveloped will make it out.

[@mirzaghalib8659]

What is a "make work" project? Work for works sake or building something operable?

[@randysidhu1418]

@@mirzaghalib8659 "make work" is work for works sake, something you can report to people who are paying the bills and say you are working on something important. Even if that something is somewhat pointless, you just need to give a good enough reason to justify your job and paycheck. It happens in large bureaucracies like governments and large corporations.

[@Actaeon-l6d]

Yea it's very similar to Kafka's The Trial. But you gotta remember that the metaphor of the bureaucracy is itself a metaphor for life.

[@CoopaCoop]

Remember watching this as a kid. It was awesome!!

[@silas_allen3383]

This movie gave me nightmares when I first watched it with my grandma

[@BelakorVenator]

Suggesting that the doctor is “opposed” to the system is pretty rich. She’s been the _most_ committed to attaining her place within the system out of anyone. She’s not an oppositional character, just the most hypocritical.

[@kaylaisnothere4397]

I've never had a movie frighten me as much as this one did. By the end I was genuinely panicking hoping Kazan made it out. Very uncomfortable watch, but art doesn't have to be pleasing to be considered great. This movie excels in making you feel perturbed and challenging your faith in humanity.

[@reportman101]

This is in my top ten movies I can see over and over again without getting bored

[@dementedkitten8810]

Oh my God I remember this movie it was so freaking weird I saw this as a child and I was just thinking what???

[@scarletcross85]

I've been waiting for this explained, this is one of my fav movies, it scared me damn much when I first saw it alone at 3am.

[@johnbrown2163]

I LOVE THIS MOVIE!! My life is the Cube. I can never escape my reality.

[@Eldritch-1]

No exit* from J.P Sartre.

[@BondrewdAiriDarke]

I watched this as a kid and once netflix started streaming online, it was the first movie I watched. Loved the original concept, even watched the sequel on netflix too.

[@kokomanation]

I saw the film yesterday I wanted to see it from 1997 but never had the chance I realised I was really close as a character to the nihilistic one who designed part of the cube especially in the end when he denied getting out of it I have never seen a character in film representing me so much

[@anime4y2]

Love the uploads bro was waiting for this one

[@Holdmymawashi]

Argh! I love Cube! Such a great concept. Watched the commentary once and was fascinating how they utilised light and colour to maximise the limited set. Have you seen a film by the same director and two of the actors from Cube called Nothing? It’s a surreal comedy I guess... two housemates facing eviction develop the ability to make the outside world disappear but once it’s just them left together, they start using the power on each other. Maybe not one to watch during lockdown though?

[@Eldritch-1]

Yeah it's the actual follow-up to Cube, not the syfy? channel dumbed down reductive trash that cashed in on stupid people's need for answers...which hilariously misses the point.

[@jacksoned4773]

Cube is literally my favorite movie trilogy. I love them all so so so much.

[@cultusfetus]

trilogy?

[@jacksoned4773]

cultus fetus yes, cube, cube 2 hyper cube, and cube zero

[@cultusfetus]

@@jacksoned4773 thanks! i gotta watch them all

[@jacksoned4773]

cultus fetus cube zero is a different approach but still cube and has the same vibe type of thing. All of them are amazing imo though

[@cultusfetus]

@@jacksoned4773 i just finished watching the first one, it was great. i love everything about it, except for holloway's and leaven's death :(

[@donnmckee4973]

Tremors/Graboids? That would be an amazing review if you find the time :) thanks for this not so well known horror movie!

[@JOSH2625]

Niyat, your material is well put together. You were that class mate in grade school that always aced the book report that i always asked for help cause i didnt understand anything!

[@paleindian10]

When Quentin purposely dropped Helen, I was like, “nope.. uh uh.. nope... big yikes.. that’s a no for me..” I came here in the end and don’t plan on finishing the film. Sure, Helen was annoying sometimes, but she was a doctor and cared about Kazan and was killed because she had an argument with Quentin, who has a big complex with people questioning his authority, etc. Like they all have their flaws and assets, but that was a major “disappointment “.

[@jacobloving6765]

That was the point though, he’s a bad person, probably beats his wife

[@feathero3]

I saw a person comment that they saw this movie as representing 6 sides of an individual and I agree with it a lot. To quote them, "You have rage and anger represented by Quentin. Paranoia represented by the blonde doctor Innocence represented by the mentally challenged guy. Rational thought by the math girl. Worthlessness and nihilism represented by “Worth”. And survival represented by the escape artist... Survival kills itself by making the situation worse instead of taking a step back to consider the problem. His sole focus is how to weasel is way out of the problem instead of dealing with it at a broader scale. Anger gets him self killed due to his own emotional unstability. Paranoia dies to the thing she’s paranoid of (which ends up being the cop who represents the systems she was paranoid of). Worthlessness dies because of his own self. Rational thought falls victim to the other sides of emotion (literally dies to anger which is a stronger emotion...and it’s all because she was trying to rationalize with worthlessness in the end). So in the end her rationality killed her. And finally innocence is the only thing that survives. And the first guy we see is the spirit which is torn apart (quite literally) by the cube (which represents the 6 sides of personality)." (Taken from David W's comment left on the KZbin Movies video of Cube.)

[@Palmieres]

Yay! I loved this movie's concept. I'd like to read a book version, as the movie had obvious budget issues that kept it from being truly great. But it's still pretty good.

[@marko-gj1uj]

What's the name of the book

[@mark3068]

This movie was funded by The Canadian Film Centre's first time directors program. The budget for these films was pretty much set in advance with very little wriggle room - certainly during the early stages of pre-production and when it went to camera. The budgeted amounts within departments was adjustable, but the total, bottom-line dollar amount was not. Post production might have been another story. If they realized they had a winner on their hands they might have spent to ensure what had been shot looked and sounded as good as it could.

[@popamonkey190]

I remember this movie. Wow. Thanks for the commentary. Great stuff.

[@chadca201]

You should do a video about the movie "platform"

[@SSILENCE354]

Glad you did this film, only discovered this film 4 months ago and ended up watching all 3

[@GrilledCheeseObamaSandwichMMMM]

This is like that one game where H2O Delirious keeps dying cause he tries his luck everytime.

[@BlueBeetle1939]

Dude yes! I've been watching from the back for a while but this one earns my subscribe nobody remembers these insane movies

[@jacelocke4345]

I literally just watched this movie on KZbin like 2 days ago lmao!

[@cryptbot]

I occasionally watch this channel... but by coincidence this movie popped up in my recommended, I watched it, then this pops up. Rad.

[@KenKaneki62851]

You should break down the series “The Rain” from Netflix

[@genericgoon5179]

I literally just rewatched this movie last night. It's probably my favorite movie of all time.

[@steviemanjenkins]

Please do starship troopers the political undertones are relevant and personally I see the movie as a big step for big budget sifi and influencing series such as Futurama

[@CZOM027]

Their experience is a metaphor for existence, newborn souls face the adversity that is life, having come from somewhere else, and now, as human struggle to see why they wished to exist in the first place.

[@Actaeon-l6d]

Exactly lol it's simply about the struggle to find the meaning of life and how we construct all these crazy narratives to find it's meaning. Ironically constructing all these crazy narratives about the meaning of the movie is the very thing the movie is criticizing. It's very similar to Kafka's The Trial.

[@thetruckfreak7858]

Still a fan for Pyrocynical's review on the movie lol

[@igormendoncacanga2569]

Good afternoon Niyat... I've been following you for a very long time... boy, God bless you sir, it took you a long time to get to this exploration but here we are... Cube explored... you are very insightful and I was waiting for you to explore one of my favourite films of all time!

[@markpate4295]

They are all named after prisons.

[@94462]

This videos just adds way more complexity to an already mathematically complex movie

[@marcjansson1039]

Im just wondering WHO puts people in there, WHY and HOW.. I know that is the thing with the movie in a sense, I just remember all I took from the movie was huge questions and a want to know more of the "universe" CUBE is set in.

[@Evelyn-pl3we]

Same. That was my biggest question - who did this?

[@pressplayulysses]

And where? Is it still on earth, somewhere in space or in another dimension.

[@Eldritch-1]

The questions ARE the point.

[@R.A.D.G59]

This is one of the greatest movies of all time incredible.

[@jasonlucero5359]

This was a really cool and underappreciated movie. Glad to see you cover it

[@jasonlucero5359]

@@chrissnyder8415 I am saying it is generally underappreciated by people when compared to movies like saw.

[@chrisreynolds2565]

I've been waiting so long for this video!

[@flyingninja1234]

This is one of my favorite independent films. Cube 2 is also good.

[@QuikScoper45]

I had to watch this for my anthropology class and it’s one of the best movies I’ve seen this year

[@nooyawker377]

Why does the movie have to have some deep social commentary. Why can’t it just be a movie about a bunch of different people trapped in a sadistic maze?

[@Eldritch-1]

Because it adds depth and resonates with our questions of existence and our place in it.

[@Actaeon-l6d]

Because that's the difference between art and mere entertainment lol. And when the characters say things like "There is no conspiracy, no master plan... big brother is not watching..." they are explicitly making a social commentary and telling you to compare the movie to real life. Because that is a common conflict you will hear about government and even existence itself. Whether it's all organized by some master plan or if it's just actually random.

[@crc_fab2372]

Duuude one of my favorite movies and just found this channel too.