Where" pi "fails,"cube" succeeds.

Rating: 7/10 (29 March 2002)

Word to the wise:I urge the people who enjoyed "cube" to try to see the made-for-TV British "A child's play",(1985)part of the series "Hammer house of suspense and mystery" starring the late Nicholas Clay.In spite of a very poor(and unfair) rating,it's really worthwhile and the connection with "cube" is glaring,even if the Val Guest TV film has a "rational" explanation.
As people have pointed out,a movie does not need a rational solution to be enthralling.if such was the case,"2001 " and "the birds" ,to name but two,would not be world-wide favorites .And "cube' is brimming with originality,and like the two mentioned movies,it may have as many interpretations as there are potential commenting users.Visually ,the movie is a splendor,all shrouded in red and orange light,glorifying geometry and arithmetic:this is really the mathematical movie which "pi" wasn't:prime numbers and the Descartes analytical geometry are shrewdly introduced in the plot.All that remains is mathematics when a world has lost its way,morally and psychologically.And even mathematic lets you down when you meet human stupidity,as the young "numbers" girl will discover.Only a lunatic can survive in such a world.He does.