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Cube (2021)

★ 5.4 · 140 ratings on TMDB

Once you're in, It's over.

Cube poster★ 5.4

Six complete strangers with widely varying personalities are involuntarily placed in an endless maze of interlocking cube-shaped rooms containing deadly traps.

DirectorYasuhiko Shimizu
CastAnne Watanabe, Hikaru Tashiro, Kotaro Yoshida, Masaki Okada, Masaki Suda, Takumi Saitoh
GenresMystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
The emergence reading

Cube keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing survival, trust, control, memory.

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Also inFilms about controlFilms about memoryFilms about survival
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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