Cube - Il cubo

Titolo originale: Cube
Regia: Vincenzo Natali |
Anno: 1998
Origine: Canada |
Generi: Thriller Fantascienza Mistero
Tag: escape | entrapment | riddle | autism | mathematics | claustrophobia | maze | prime number | psychology | trapdoor | gore | trap | murder | labyrinth | survival horror | numbers | cube | mechanical | industrial |
Cast: Nicole de Boer | Nicky Guadagni | Maurice Dean Wint | David Hewlett | Andrew Miller | Wayne Robson | Julian Richings |

Quentin è un poliziotto, Rennes un artista, Holloway un medico, Worth un architetto, Leaven una studentessa di matematica e Kazan è un giovane autistico. In comune hanno il fatto di essere stati rinchiusi in un cubo labirintico dal quale devono uscire. Provati dal terrore, i sei iniziano a sfogare la propria aggressivitià uno contro l'altro...

Frasi

Quentin: Who do you think the establishment is? It [...] D
Kazan: Astronomical! D
Quentin: You're telling me telethon boy is a geniu [...] D
Holloway: You've got a gift. Leaven: It's not a g [...] D
Holloway: It's like Chile. They always come in the [...] D
Holloway: [after Rennes is killed] I think we *hav [...] D
Worth: We've been going in circles. Quentin: That [...] D
Leaven: This room moves to 0, 1, and -1 on the X-a [...] D
Quentin: Somebody has to take responsibility aroun [...] D
Quentin: Why put people in it? Worth: Because it' [...] D
Worth: Hey! Listen to what I'm saying. We haven't [...] D
Holloway: What have we come to? It's so much worse [...] D
Leaven: *You* figure it out! You haven't done anyt [...] D
Worth: I don't wanna die, I'm just being realistic [...] D
Worth: This is an accident, a forgotten, perpetual [...] D
Worth: What do ya think? Leaven: You don't have a [...] D
[Quentin and Holloway are discussing who could hav [...] D
Quentin: Listen, we can't go climbing around in he [...] D
Holloway: They may have taken our lives away, but [...] D
Quentin: I'm not dying in a fucking rat maze! D
Quentin: Trust me on this. It's my job to read peo [...] D
Quentin: You want to come with us, Worth? Down the [...] D
Quentin: Why don't you tell us what your purpose i [...] D
Quentin: Start with us. We got an escape artist an [...] D
Quentin: Is that your two cents worth, Worth? Wor [...] D
[last lines] Quentin: Red Kazan. D
Kazan: This room is... green. I wanna go back to t [...] D
Leaven: [to Worth and Holloway] Well... Duh! Have [...] D
Leaven: Is he dead? Worth: Not quite. Quentin: N [...] D
Leaven: Give us the boot, you pig! [Quentin turns [...] D
Leaven: Give me a minute. Okay. The numbers are ma [...] D
Leaven: [looking at the "room numbers"] Prime numb [...] D
Rennes: No more talking. No more guessing. Don't e [...] D
Holloway: It's all the same machine, right? The Pe [...] D
Quentin: [talking to Holloway] You listen to me, w [...] D
[They are staring, wide-eyed, at each other as the [...] D
Quentin: For Christ's sake, Worth, what do you liv [...] D
Worth: I'm the poison. I designed the outer shell. D
Leaven: [Leaven, Kazan & Worth reaching the exit o [...] D
Holloway: Only the government could build somethin [...] D