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> 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.
By Inter-List Synchronicity, we were talking about _Cube_ over on the
Culture yesterday. We decided it was obviously constructed for use in
the next generation of "Reality TV" gameshows.
Rich
GCU Ratings Beat Ethics
