Cube story
A handful of individuals are trapped in the titular cube as they cross industrialized cube-shaped rooms, some rigged with various booby traps designed to kill.
9 total · 6 major · 3 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| conspiracy theory | major | It was speculated that the Cube was a forgotten perpetual public works project that no single individual of a shadow bureaucracy fully comprehended, but rather it kept going on because each person was working on their own little part without understanding the greater whole. |
| descent into madness | major | The cop Quentin became more and more unhinged as time went on to the point where he was basically scampering around the cube-shaped rooms of the maze killing people for no reason. |
| human vs. captivity | major | The film follows a handful of strangers who found themselves trapped in a giant maze of interconnected cube-shaped rooms. |
| human vs. inexplicable adversity | major | A handful of strangers were left to make sense of how they'd all came to be trapped inside a giant maze of interconnected cube-shaped rooms. |
| what if I found myself in a strange place | major | A handful of strangers were left to make sense of how they'd all came to be trapped inside a giant maze of interconnected cube-shaped rooms. |
| working together under stress | major | Tensions ran high when a handful of strangers with contrasting personality types found themselves trapped together in a giant maze of interconnected cube-shaped rooms. |
| compassion | minor | The free clinic doctor Holloway insisted that the mentally challenged man, Kazan, not be left behind even though it seemed he would be a liability to the group. |
| prime numbers | minor | Leaven initially hypothesized that any room marked with a prime number was trapped, but she later deduced that it was powers of prime numbers that marked the trapped rooms. |
| purpose in life | minor | In response to being asked about his purpose in life, Worth stated something to the effect that he was just a guy who worked in an office building. Quentin stated that his three kids were his purpose in life. |