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The only apparent practical purpose of the cube puzzle seems to be to study human psychology under extreme stress. This also appears to be the subject of the movie. Artistically, the cube puzzle may be a metaphor for life itself, or the world. Nobody knows why they are alive or on earth, and the wrong decision can get you killed. The cube puzzle just miniaturizes and literalizes these truths in a particularly horrible way. However, Worth's role as being a designer of the cube system albeit without any real knowledge of the task ...

Cube film: Encyclopedia II - Cube film - Purpose of the cube puzzle

Cube film - Purpose of the cube puzzle

The only apparent practical purpose of the cube puzzle seems to be to study human psychology under extreme stress. This also appears to be the subject of the movie.

Artistically, the cube puzzle may be a metaphor for life itself, or the world. Nobody knows why they are alive or on earth, and the wrong decision can get you killed. The cube puzzle just miniaturizes and literalizes these truths in a particularly horrible way.

However, Worth's role as being a designer of the cube system albeit without any real knowledge of the task he had been working on, other than it was a 'good job' at the time, and his argument against the conspiracy theory of Holloway, argues for the film's allegorical point being that we are all trapped in a device of our own making, which was made in ignorance, and ultimately meaningless, however complex and intricate it may appear.

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