"Charlie Bell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Rubik's Cube, that is, not the Cube in the eponymous film. (Although that
>was a cool if deadly puzzle.
Indeed. Susan and I rented it recently. I found the ending... well...
unsatisfying. But I suspect that was intentional and a statement about the
futility of it all. Spoilers down below.
I also can't help but wonder if they got started by imagining what the
inside of the Hellraiser puzzle box was like; the designs on the walls in
Cube were very reminiscent of the decorations on the puzzle box.
>Wonder if we could modify Rubik's Cube to be
>more danderous? But I digress...).
And now we're back where everything started. "What's your pleasure, sir?"
SPOILERS for CUBE
I don't think I like the fact that we learn that the machine was constructed
by the US government. Yes, it allowed the side plot and set up conflict
between the characters; and one of the themes of the flick is the
helplessness of people against a stronger force, be it a person or inertia.
Leaving the origin of the machine more ambiguous and potentially alien (e.g.
using binary not decimal for the numbers) would have been more satisfying to
me on some level.
Joshua
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