interesting allegory?

Rating: 8/10 (26 July 1999)

While some movies fairly beg to be picked apart frame by frame for cinematic, directorial and script-writing qualities, I tend to view movies such as this as not intended to be merely entertaining (because this one is fairly painful to watch at most times), but for allegorical purposes. We do not like to think of our lives as having no meaning and without purpose, and that is exactly what the character Worth (intentional, for sure) thinks of his own life and has no real desire to escape the Cube. As it turns out, he who at first appears to be the least worthwhile character, turns out to have the most when it counts.
While the ending leaves more questions unanswered than answered, it does not diminish the power of the statement that even when it seems as though life has no purpose, it surely does when you look without, not within, for its answers.