Cube Zero story
Cube Zero is a 2004 Canadian independent science fiction psychological horror thriller film, written and directed by Ernie Barbarash. It is the third installment in the Cube film series and a prequel to the first film. Synopsis: A low-level technician of a deadly maze of interconnected cube- shaped rooms makes a fateful decision to lead some of its apparently seemingly occupants to safety.
16 total · 5 major · 11 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| human vs. captivity | major | he story follows the efforts of several captives as they try to escape from a vast assemblage of interconnected cube-shaped rooms. |
| human vs. inexplicable adversity | major | Several strangers were left to make sense of how they'd all came to be trapped inside a giant maze of interconnected cube-shaped rooms. |
| questioning one's beliefs | major | The story follows the low-level technician Wynn as he becomes increasingly doubtful that his job of overseeing alleged condemned prisoners die horribly in a maze of interconnected cubes is ethically justified, and in the end he decides to help some prisoners escape. |
| the human capacity for good and evil | major | The story explores how two otherwise ordinary guys justify that they are employed to oversee people getting dumped into a maze on interconnected cubes and left there to all die horrible deaths. Both men ultimately come to see that what they are doing is terribly wrong and take steps to help the captives. |
| what if I found myself in a strange place | major | Various strangers were left to make sense of how they'd all came to be trapped inside a deadly maze of interconnected cube-shaped rooms. |
| artificial body part | minor | Jax had a conspicuous artificial eye. [eye] |
| duty to disobey illegal orders | minor | Rains called out the low-level Cube operator Wynn for invoking this defense when he justified himself by claiming that he was just the computer guy. |
| food pill | minor | Wynn consumed for lunch a green pill that was evidently equivalent to goat cheese salad with ginseng, liver fricassee, and mango sorbet. Dodd, by contrast, consumed a red pill labled as containing steak. |
| lobotomization | minor | Wynn was rendered mentally handicapped my means of a lobotomization and then dumped into the Cube. |
| memory erasure | minor | People had their long-term memories erased prior to being dumped unceremoniously in the Cube. |