Movie Narrative: Cube (1997)



The captivation of moving pictures is a source of tremendous inspiration.  For this reason and many more, RB28’s Movie Narratives, continues showing its love for movies with another movie narrative.  This week, Cube (1997), will be converted into a narrative and subsequently highlighted.  It is implied that the blog reader reads the movie narrative, and then, he or she should watch the movie.  The effort is to give the blog reader, an enhanced experience.  RB28’s Movie Narratives, ends this movie narrative of Cube (1997), with some Hollywood facts.  
             Cube (1997) is rated R.  Furthermore, it is 1 hour and 30 minutes long.  This movie is categorized under the drama, mystery and science fiction genre.  The official release date is July 11th, 1998.  The release date is for the Country of the Netherlands.  The director was Vincenzo Natali.  The writers were Andre Bijelic, Vincenzo Natali and Graeme Manson.  The officially recognized stars were Nicole de Boer, Maurice Dean Wint and David Hewlett.  The list of the 7 most important cast members is as follows:
  • Nicole de Boer (Leaven).
  • Nicky Guadagni (Holloway).
  • David Hewlett (Worth).
  • Andrew Miller (Kazan).
  • Julian Richings (Alderson).
  • Wayne Robson (Rennes).
  • Maurice Dean Wint (Quentin).
             The synopsis follows.  Cube (1997) is a drama and science fiction movie, out of Canada or the U.S.A.  In the Country of Canada, or the Country of the United States of America, a giant cube has been built.  Furthermore, it is another cube shaped room, and, the color is silver.  Worth sleeps on the floor.  At the same time, Quentin is climbing into the room, from the door on the floor.  Additionally, Quentin has blood on his hands.  Quentin attempts to wake up Worth, and, he opens a door.  Worth wakes up, and unexpectedly, a door on the wall opens.  Holloway is attempting to enter the room.  Quentin grabs Holloway, and, he throws her to the floor.  Holloway is a woman, whilst, Quentin and Worth are men.  Unexpectedly, there is a loud machine noise.  Surprisingly, a woman’s voice screams for help.  Quentin opens a door and checks the cube shaped room.  Leaven, a woman, is in the other room.  The other room is the color light caramel.  Quentin orders the woman to stop.  He enters the light caramel room, and, takes Leaven with him.  Leaven and Quentin cross over to the silver room.  Out of nowhere, an old man named Rennes opens the door, which is on the ceiling.  Rennes climbs down and enters the silver room.  At the same time, Quentin reveals that the rooms, have bobby traps.  Everyone is wearing a standard prison uniform.  Rennes takes off his boots and the laces.  Out of nowhere, Rennes opens a door and throws the boot in.  The room is the color blue, and, it has a bobby trap.  A fire device incinerates the boot.  Rennes pulls in the boot.  Quentin asks the group to relax, for a minute.  He asks if anyone knows, how, they entered the cube.  Holloway says that, her last memory was eating dinner.  She went to the refrigerator, and, she doesn’t know more.  Leaven says that, her last memory was going to bed.  Worth says that, his last memory is waking up inside the cube.  Holloway believes that everything, is a government conspiracy.  However, it could also be aliens.  Quentin wants to focus on the facts.  Surprisingly, Rennes says that, he’s moving until he finds the end.  Rennes believes that, they are being spied on.  Rennes opens a door and throws in the boot.  The boot lands in a room, the color red.  Nothing happens, and, Rennes says clean.  The group crosses over to the other side.  The group continues, and, they cross over to a second room.  This room is the color green.  There is a loud machine noise.  They talk about, what the noise could be.  The group discovers room numbers or serial numbers.  All of the room numbers are different.  Rennes opens a door and throws in the boot.  He pulls back the boot and stares.  Surprisingly, he doesn’t want to enter this room.  He also believes, the room has chemical sensors.  The sensors detect human skin.  Rennes opens another door, and, throws in the boot.  Surprisingly, Rennes tells the group to keep pace.  Furthermore, he’s gone, if they don’t keep pace.  He also tells the group, save yourselves from yourselves.  Rennes enters a room, the color blue.  Unexpectedly, Rennes is sprayed with a liquid.  Rennes returns to the group and his face is burned.  The group screams in horror.  Surprisingly, Worth reveals himself to be the engineer of the outer shell.  He vigorously attempts to explain that the cube, is a machine without an operator.  Additionally, government conspiracies don’t matter.  No one cares, because, no one is watching.  Ultimately, only 1 person escapes the cube.  Director, Vincenzo Natali, does a fantastic job.  There is a deep mystery about the cube, and, the viewer can feel it.  Furthermore, the viewer can feel the anxiety, to get out of the cube.  The character, Holloway, introduces the perfect amount of government conspiracy theory.  When there is a cube such as this one, someone, has to talk about government conspiracies.  This movie is an extraordinary adventure, and, an improbable task that is successfully completed.  The writers do an equally fantastic job.  Every step the characters take, becomes, a surprise to the viewer.  Furthermore, there isn’t a boring written moment, in this movie.  The interaction between the characters is well written and developed.  Additionally, the group falls apart at the right times, and, in the right ways.  An impossible drama, mystery and science fiction work is successfully completed.  The officially recognized stars contribute tremendously.  They would be missed, if they were not chosen.  Overall, this movie earns the rating of 8 out of 10.
            The movie narrative of, Cube (1997), is as follows.  An unknown man wakes up in a cube shaped room.  The man is an old man, and, he has a shaved head.  Furthermore, he is wearing a standard prison uniform.  The room is the color silver.  There are doors, which open to another cube shaped room.  There are 6 doors, in total.  There is a door on each wall, and, one on the floor and one on the ceiling.  Unexpectedly, there is a loud machine noise.  The old man looks around the room.  The old man opens a door, but, he doesn’t cross to the other side.  The old man opens a third door, and, he crosses to the other side or room.  This cube shaped room is the color light caramel.  Unexpectedly, it is revealed that this room, is a death trap.  Super sharp steal cables cut the old man, into several dozen pieces.  The pieces of the body are also shaped like a square.  The scene changes, and, there are opening credits.  It is another cube shaped room, and, the color is silver.  Worth sleeps on the floor.  Quentin is climbing into the room, from the door on the floor.  Additionally, Quentin has blood on his hands.  Quentin attempts to wake up Worth, and, he opens a door.  Worth wakes up, and unexpectedly, a door on the wall opens.  Holloway is attempting to enter the room.  Quentin grabs Holloway, and, he throws her to the floor.  Holloway is a woman, whilst, Quentin and Worth are men.  Holloway screams, and, Quentin apologizes.  Unexpectedly, there is a loud machine noise.  Surprisingly, a woman’s voice screams for help.  Quentin opens a door and checks the cube shaped room.  Leaven, a woman, is in the other room.  The other room is the color light caramel.  Quentin orders the woman to stop.  He enters the light caramel room, and, takes Leaven with him.  Leaven and Quentin cross over, to the silver room.  Unexpectedly, Leaven’s reading glasses fall and break.  Quentin feels afraid, and, Holloway wants to know; why?  Out of nowhere, an old man named Rennes opens the door, which is on the ceiling.  Rennes climbs down and enters the silver room.  At the same time, Quentin reveals that the rooms, have bobby traps.  The group for this part, is complete.  Everyone is wearing a standard prison uniform.  Quentin hands Leaven her glasses.  Rennes takes off his boots and the laces.  Holloway talks to Worth, she also checks Worth’s head.  Holloway reveals that, she is a doctor.  Out of nowhere, Rennes opens a door and throws the boot in.  The room is the color blue, and, it has a bobby trap.  A fire device incinerates the boot.  Rennes pulls in the boot.  He also says, motion detectors integrated into the walls; tough to spot.  Quentin asks the group to relax, for a minute.  He asks if anyone knows, how, they entered the cube.  Holloway says that, her last memory was eating dinner.  She went to the refrigerator, and, she doesn’t know more.  Leaven says that, her last memory was going to bed.  Worth says that, his last memory is waking up inside the cube.  Holloway believes that everything, is a government conspiracy.  However, it could also be aliens.  Quentin wants to focus on the facts.  Surprisingly, Rennes says that, he’s moving until he finds the end.  Leaven suggests staying in the room, until someone finds them.  Quentin attempts to bring the group together.  Rennes believes that, they are being spied on.  Leaven loses her confidence.  Quentin attempts to lift up her confidence.  Quentin reveals that, he is a police officer.  Rennes opens a door and throws in the boot.  The boot lands in a room, the color red.  Nothing happens, and, Rennes says clean.  The group crosses over to the other side.  The group continues, and, they cross over to a second room.  This room is the color green.  There is a loud machine noise.  They talk about, what the noise could be.  The group discovers room numbers or serial numbers.  All of the room numbers are different.  Holloway reminds the group that, they have 3 days before their body’s break down.  Rennes tells Holloway, to suck on a button.  Rennes opens a door and throws in the boot.  He pulls back the boot and stares.  Surprisingly, he doesn’t want to enter this room.  He also believes, the room has chemical sensors.  The sensors detect human skin.  Rennes opens another door, and, throws in the boot.  Unexpectedly, Quentin knows who Rennes is.  Rennes is a famous thief, who has escaped from 7 prisons.  Surprisingly, Rennes tells the group to keep pace.  He’s gone, if they don’t keep pace.  He also tells the group, save yourselves from yourselves.  Rennes enters a room, the color blue.  Unexpectedly, Rennes is sprayed with a liquid.  Rennes returns to the group and his face is burned.  The group screams in horror.  Rennes’s face finishes burning.  The group is in a room, the color light caramel.  Worth stares, instead of screaming.  Quentin talks about what went wrong.  Holloway believes that, they are being punished.  Quentin wants the group, to look at what is in front.  He also believes that, each person has a purpose or function.  Leaven reveals that, she is a student who lives with her parents.  Worth says, one down four to go.  Worth reveals that, he is a clerical office worker.  Quentin believes that, his purpose is his children.  He also believes that, Leaven’s reading glasses have a purpose.  Quentin believes that, Leaven’s purpose is math.  Leaven inspects the room numbers.  Leaven deduces that the room numbers, contain prime numbers.  If the room numbers are prime, then the cube shaped rooms have bobby traps.  Leaven inspects a set of room numbers, and, she believes the room is safe.  Quentin believes what Leaven is saying.  Holloway tests a room with the boot, and, Leaven enters the room.  The room is safe, and, the color silver.  The group travels from room to room.  Leaven inspects all of the room numbers, for a prime number.  Quentin believes that, 9 or 10 hours have passed.  He also says that, his last memory was shaving.  Quentin opens a door, and, Leaven inspects the numbers.  Unexpectedly, there is a loud machine noise.  Out of nowhere, Holloway begins to feel a lot of stress.  Holloway and Quentin attempt to have a conversation, with each other.  Quentin reveals that, he is legally separated from his wife.  Leaven interrupts to say that, the next room is safe.  The group crosses over to the other side.  This cube shaped room is the color green.  Leaven believes that, 5 out of the 6 doors, take the group to rooms with bobby traps.  The door on the ceiling, is the 6th door.  Quentin climbs up to the door on the ceiling.  Quentin opens the door, and, Kazan falls down.  Kazan is mentally handicapped.  Holloway attempts to befriend Kazan.  She tells the group that, she will look after him.  Holloway asks Quentin, and the group, to wait; for a few minutes.  The scene changes, and, the group continues the journey out of the cube.  The group is in a room, the color light caramel.  Kazan opens a door, and, Leaven inspects the numbers.  Holloway and Quentin debate, the government conspiracy theory.  Holloway is amused by Quentin’s point of view.  Leaven declares the next room, to be safe.  Unexpectedly; Holloway chokes, and, swallows her button.  Kazan begins to cry.  Leaven quickly declares the next room; safe.  Quentin enters a cube shaped room, the color silver.  Unexpectedly, Leaven shouts stop.  The room has a bobby trap, and, Quentin barely escapes.  The bobby trap is, super sharp steel cables.  However, Quentin suffers a deep cut in his leg.  Holloway treats the cut.  The room is the color red.  Quentin expresses his suspicions, about Worth.  Kazan and Worth return to the room.  The group decides to stop and rest.  Leaven attempts to think about the room numbers, in a different way.  Unexpectedly, Kazan urinates in the room.  Quentin becomes aggressive with Worth.  Quentin orders Worth to baby-sit Kazan.  Worth continues to argue with Quentin.  Quentin opens a door, and, he tells Worth to jump in.  He can die in the room, if he wants to die.  Worth continues to argue, with Quentin.  Worth expresses his belief that, there is no exit.  Worth and Quentin shout, at each other.  Out of nowhere, Quentin and Holloway believe that they have caught Worth lying.  Worth confesses and says, I’m the poison.  Additionally, he confesses that, he designed the outer shell of the cube.  Furthermore, everything was a contract, and, he never met people.  Worth says that, he spoke to people on the telephone, about the details.  However, no one knows what it is.  Holloway expresses her belief, in a government conspiracy.  Worth explains that, everything is a machine without an operator.  Quentin becomes angry.  Worth continues to explain that, the machine has to be used.  That’s the reason, they are inside the cube.  The group feels, as if, they have ruined the world.  Holloway asks Worth if, he stayed with them to confess.  Worth doesn’t answer.  Unexpectedly, Quentin starts to punch Worth.  Leaven is able to stop Quentin.  Leaven asks Worth, to explain the outer shell of the cube.  Worth confesses that, there is only one door.  The dimensions of the outer shell are 434 feet, squared.  Leaven estimates that, the cube shaped rooms are 14 feet; on all sides.  Worth says that, there is a one cube space, in between, the outer shell and the inner cube or space.  Leaven estimates that, the inner cube is 26 rooms in length and 26 rooms in height.  Additionally, there are 17,576 cube shaped rooms.  Holloway feels dizzy.  Leaven believes that, the room numbers are Cartesian coordinates.  In other words, points on a 3 dimensional graph.  Furthermore; in the room numbers, is revealed a location, which is inside the cube.  Unexpectedly, Quentin and Holloway argue with each other.  The group continues the journey.  At another room, Leaven deduces that they are in a room, which is outside the inner cube or space.  The group decides to go down, the inner cube.  They open the door on the floor and look down.  The room has sound sensors, and, it has a bobby trap.  Large super sharp spikes, meet, in the middle of the room.  The group doesn’t want to go back.  Going through the room, through the door on the floor, is the only option.  The cube shaped room is the color blue.  Quentin orders Worth to go first, and, he wants to leave Kazan behind.  Holloway shames Quentin.  Leaven also wants to leave Kazan.  Worth decides to take Kazan with the group.  He also climbs down into the blue room, successfully.  The bobby traps don’t become activated.  He opens a door, and, Leaven climbs down.  Leaven inspects the room numbers.  The remainder of the group follows.  Leaven declares the next room; safe.  Leaven and Worth are the first to enter the next room.  The room is the color light Caramel.  Holloway, Kazan and Quentin successfully follow.  From this point forward; you have to watch, in order to know, how this movie ends.  Only 1 person exits the cube.
            The movie narrative of the feature film, Cube (1997), ends with some Hollywood facts.  The country of origin is Canada.  The official languages are English and German.  There are other notable release dates.  The other notable release dates are:  Canada, September 9, 1997 (Toronto International Film Festival); Greece, September 12, 1997 (Athens Film Festival); U.S.A., January 16, 1998 (Sundance Film Festival); U.S.A., September 11, 1998 (Limited Release) and Sweden, September 26, 2000 (DVD).  There is 1 filming location, in total, for this particular movie.  The filming location is Wallace Avenue Studios, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.  There is box office data for this movie.  The original budget is estimated at, $365 thousand CAD.  The opening weekend is on September 13, 1998, and, for the U.S.A.  On its opening weekend, this movie made $57,147 USD.  This movie is considered to be closed in theaters, on November 29, 1998.  The gross profits that, are reported for the U.S.A., are $501,818 dollars.  The production dates, that are reported, are November 1996 to June 1997.  The production companies are Cube Libre, The Feature Film Project, The Harold Greenberg Fund, Odeon Films, Ontario Film Development Corporation, Telefilm Canada and Viacom Canada.  There are several distributors, for this particular movie.  Some of the distributors include the following; Trimark Pictures (U.S.A.), Eagle Pictures (Italy), Cineplex-Odeon Films (Canada), Alliance Atlantis Video (Canada), Araba Films (Spain) and Divisa Home Video (Spain). 
            To end and as always, RB28’s Movie Narratives, encourages you to continue reading the posted movie narratives.  The aforementioned blog strives to provide basic information, so that it, becomes inspiration.  Movies are a great pleasure to RB28’s Movie Narratives, and, the blog’s author hopes that they are for you as well.  For this week, and in conclusion, the feature film was Cube (1997).  RB28’s Movie Narratives looks forward to seeing you next week, when another movie will be highlighted.

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04/10/2019

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