What was the movie "Cube" all about?

[Homie]

1. Who made the cube?
2. Why did they make the Cube?
3. How was the Cube funded?
4. Where did the ****** at the end of the movie end up?
5. Where was the Cube located, in New Mexico?

 

[Aphex_Twin]

1. Who made the cube?
2. Why did they make the Cube?
3. How was the Cube funded?
4. Where did the ****** at the end of the movie end up?
5. Where was the Cube located, in New Mexico?

1. The US Military (allegedly)
2. As some sort of mental experiment (I say it was an interesting plot device).
3. Apparently, they dug a huge hole, built the thing in sections, then threw dirt atop.
4. Heaven? (message: you have to be a littke ****oo to make it to the other end)
5. It does not say.

 

[Yuri2356]

The cube? I saw the second one mut not the first. and It has officaily claimed the WTH award for 2003. The award is presented by me, in my mind, to the movie I watched that year that made the least sense. For the last 3 years before that the awward had gone to '2001:A Space Odesey' bizzare, but not quite as surreal as the cube. (at the end of the film it kind of collapses upon itself into some bizzare parallel type thingamajig, when it was over I actually said alloud:"what the **** did I just watch?")

 

[Aphex_Twin]

Hypercube is a fine example of a sequel spoiling a relatively good movie.

 

[Immortal]

Aphex answered everything right except 4, which I believe is that he escaped to the surface.

 

[Wolfe Tone]

I thought it was a pretty good movie except for the ending which is one of the worst ending I have ever seen.

 

[Immortal]

Once the black guy went crazy and Kazan became the "hero" it became too much for me.

 

[BasketCase]

Only saw the first one--and yes, I was all for a while. What the bleeding heck was this about??

Now, I think the point of the movie was a metaphor for life. You get dumped into it with no idea of what it is, why it exists, or what your purpose in it is. You don't know the rules; you have to learn as you go, and one screw-up could kill you. Or you could get killed at complete random; the contest, whatever kind of contest it is, isn't fair.

And, of course, when you finally do get out, you're not gonna be coming back to tell everyone else who's still stuck in it what awaits them at the exit.....

 

[Masquerouge]

1. Who made the cube?
2. Why did they make the Cube?
3. How was the Cube funded?
4. Where did the ****** at the end of the movie end up?
5. Where was the Cube located, in New Mexico?

Actually I don't agree with Aphex's answers so here are mine

1. Some sort of governemental administration.
2. Now this is where the movie is interesting. Apparently, the Cube was a project that created itself ; the bureaucracy and hierarchy of the administration was so huge and complicated that a "project" emerged by itself, and so many people contributed to it, in so many little pieces, that actually everybody can rightfully claim to have no part in it and not know of its existence !
3. Same thing as 2. A little funding here, a little funding there no one really cares to know where the money come and go...
4. I don't think that matters, but he exits the cube for sure.
5. I don't think that's relevant either.

Okay, these are MHO, I didn't see Cube 2 so maybe more explanations were given in it.

But I really like the idea of a big project creating itself

 

[Aphex_Twin]

Well, in Hypercube (Cube 2) there is the clear impression that the project was planned and did not evolve by itself.

 

[The Last Conformist]

To be honest, I thought The Cube sucked quite hard.

 

[WS78]

Basketcase is right on the money. It is just a metaphor for life, it isn't an actual plot based on reality. It's a movie in all it's abstract/metaphorical glory.