If you want to discover an amazing SF thriller, precursor to the “Saw” saga, then quickly watch “Cube” on Netflix. You won’t come out unscathed!
It’s a hell of a nugget that is currently in the Netflix catalog: Cube! Film oscillating between SF and horror cinema, this thriller really not like the others caused a sensation when it was released in 1999, quickly seeing itself crowned with a pretty cult status.
It must be said that this oppressive camera, which can be seen as the precursor of the Saw saga with its many traps to solve in order to survive, is a real success. Original, intelligent, mysterious, scary, captivating and cloistered at will, this Cube, as successful in substance as in form, which has the good taste to be completed in 1h26, turns the brain around and is difficult to remain indifferent to it!
With a ban on children under 12 for its French release, Cube tells the nightmare experienced by a group of people who, without knowing why, find themselves locked in a surreal prison, an endless labyrinth made up of interconnecting cubic rooms equipped with deadly traps.
The policeman, the architect, the maths student, the psychologist and the autistic captive know only one thing: each has a particular gift which, combined with the others, can help them to escape. As fear grows, personal conflicts and power struggles escalate. However, they would have to succeed in teaming up to escape certain death.
“The film was shot entirely in one room”says director Vincenzo Natali. “We worked in a narrow place, but by exploiting it intelligently, we gave the impression of a huge cube. It was like doing a puzzle.”
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“I think my fascination with confinement is linked to my own claustrophobia”continues the Canadian. “My screenwriters André Bijelic And Graeme Manson and I realized after a while that we were telling our own experience in the script. We were all three old friends and we lived together in a tiny studio. We felt like we were just ants in a world of giants, understanding nothing of the forces that rushed us through life. Cube is a nightmarish version of that feeling, a dream of escaping it.”
To conclude, we will specify that the famous cube of Cube measures 4.30 meters by 4.30 meters, a space large enough to turn and narrow enough to create the feeling of imprisonment. You don’t know what to watch tonight and you’re going in circles? Then try the Cube experience!
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