CUBE

A diverse group of people from different social backgrounds - a policeman, a doctor, an employee, a mathematics student, an escape expert, and an autistic boy (and, to be honest, a seventh character, in a kind of brief prologue to the film) - without knowing each other, find themselves inexplicably imprisoned in a gigantic cube-shaped structure composed of thousands of cubic cells, all of the same size, communicating with each other, each of which may hide deadly traps. There is a way to exit the terrible fortress-trap, but it is not easy to discover it and even more problematic is to arrive alive at the exit... "Cube – The Cube" marks the surprising directorial debut of the young Canadian talent Vincenzo Natali. A strange film in which the director has opted for the decision to leave the audience ample opportunity to "read" at their discretion the assumptions and the moral of the story: it is not explained why the protagonists of the story find themselves trapped in the strange prison, nor the purpose or reason for their forced imprisonment, nor who is to "pull the strings" of the situation. The only clear intent is the demonstration of how each man, thrown into an abnormal situation, dealing with people he does not know, closes in on himself. The brutal instinct of survival takes over rules and behavioral situations canceled and now rendered vain by the parallelepiped. All the most basic instincts are elevated to the nth power, to the cube. Those who love a classic setup with "good" against "bad," more or less rational explanations, happy endings will be disappointed by the film that is instead able to attract and intrigue the more demanding and "sly" audience. An interesting example of an "independent" film, perhaps at times bizarre but surely original and appreciable.