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Ask Movie Slate - Episode 241 -Cube
 
Today’s Movie Slate is brought to you thanks to Reversal Mushroom.
 
You can tell I drew this one a while ago because the concept fits more with the “I’ve been in lockdown for two weeks and I’m going batty” sort of mentality that best describes 2020. While the background for this one may look complicated it actually took very little effort to draw it. If you look carefully you can see where the copy-pasting happens, which is kinda similar to how they did it in the actual movie.
 
Speaking of which!
 
“Cube” is one of those movies I respect a lot but that I never want to watch ever again. It’s very well done, has an ingenious premise, and can get away with deeply unlikeable characters and terrible acting because the set up is just so interesting to watch. I watched this movie back when it came out, almost on a dare because it sounded like a slasher horror movie, and by how many of my art school mates were describing with their unironic use of the word “artsy”. So I sat down, ready to hate it, but in the end I found it quite interesting. The movie is not so much about the deathly traps, or finding out who’s the real villain behind the experiment. It’s rather the hopeless feel that people will figure out a way to be horrible to each other. The way a group descends into madness and distrust when put in a tense, hopeless situation from which there’s no escape, a subject matter that becomes increasingly familiar the older you get. It’s not just style but also substance, the use of sound and camera moves help to this, and the movie could’ve been rid of dialogue entirely and still would’ve worked, since the visuals are both really simple and really strong at the same time.
 
Which, yeah, the writing sucks. This is one of those movies where the story is really strong, but the writing kind of kills it in the worst possible way. Well not kill it, but anytime I was getting lost in the movie the actors will open their mouths and ruin it, and that’s perhaps the biggest flaw. It’s a combination of the very weak writing and the appallingly bad work the actors do. I don’t know who’s fault is it. I’ve watched Vincenzo Natali’s other movies, and the acting is really good in them (especially in “Splice”). Maybe he just couldn’t get any actors outside of college campuses, and he had to do with the guys he found at a local Starbucks.
 
While far from flawless, “Cube” is still a remarkable movie of both low-budget and a strong premise that does everything it can with its setting. Its flaws don’t weigh down on how memorable it is, and while it doesn’t incite for repeated viewings it’s an easy recommend for anyone who wants to feel depressed, tense and satisfied.