Back in the 90s I was viewing the movie thinking that some evil military/industrial/complex were doing some cat and mouse MKULTRA type thing on a bunch of ordinary citizens who fit their requirements for their experiment.
But when watching the movie again over the weekend and after hearing the character Holloway mutter the line "holy cats" a few times, it clicked that this movie was like a Schrรถdinger's cat situation where the characters might be alive, and they might also be dead.
Cube (1997) |
They were being tested in some way before the next stage of the soul's journey and would be rewarded with either admittance into some kind of paradise (go towards the light), a hellish realm as a kind of punishment, or back to the hellish realm of the Earth plane to be reborn into another life and be tested all over again.
Which reminded me of an ironic line where one of the characters remarked about just going round in circles ... in a cube?!
You'll hear the character named Ren in the trailer for the movie say, "take a good look around, because I have a feeling that it is looking at us" and the math student even has those iconic round rimed glasses that give it that 'Great Gatsby' Godlike billboard look and feel to me.
Whoever "it" is who put them all into the cube left the math student her glasses so she could use them to read the numbers stamped on the entrance to each door.
Thinking Outside of Time (or the Box)
Watch this review below to see what I mean.
Those movies should be binned and forgotten about, I think.
And in a bit of a spoiler alert, notice if you do watch the film that the last room is a red room and if the prisoners of the cube don't get out of it on time while it is acting as a bridge, it is heading back down into the cube.
And in a bit of a spoiler alert, notice if you do watch the film that the last room is a red room and if the prisoners of the cube don't get out of it on time while it is acting as a bridge, it is heading back down into the cube.
I also found it a bit of a personal synch that the Ren character mentions Houdini and I happen to be reading a book about an Australian illusionist/escapologist who idealizes Houdini so much that he has visited Houdini's grave.
I recently wrote about Houdini and Cosentino in this post about Brexit and Halloween -
Britain is Trying to Do a Houdini on Halloween at the Beginning of a Mercury Retrograde?
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