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I can tell you what is 'supposedly' behind the white light

posted 15 years ago by regulus7000
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It appears that what is behind the light is an alien world.
Before you write it off here are two reasons why I bring it up.

1. In the DVD commentary, the director says there was originally a scene in the film where the people in the cube find food that is not like any seen on Earth. He says this scene was removed from the script because it revealed too much about the cube.

2. The second comes from a Cube movie forum I visited several years back. Apparently a few people from the forum had seen the 'destroyed video' that had the extra scene after the autistic character escapes. The film had him walk emerging from the light on to a beach. Behind him was a high tech door built into a cliff face. The door then (apparently) disappears. Kazaan then looks around more closely at the beach. Apparently it was of incredibly white sand that reflects light as no sand on earth does. The ocean is purple and makes metallic grinding noises. The sky has several moons in it, despite being day. Fade to black as the machine noises grow louder and louder.

Now let me explain the second point here. For all I know, this could be a complete lie. However, the only support I can give to it is that I saw the same thing posted on a different forum many years before I visited that other one. So, it may be true, but it could still be a lie. I cannot support it with any evidence and if you do not believe it I cannot blame you. I am simply telling you what I saw posted in two other places.

You can check the first point on the DVD though.

As for Worth's comments about human constructing the cube through contractors... I have nothing to offer. I don't really buy the alien explanation myself, as it feels too awkward for me to accept. The only thing I can think of, is maybe in an earlier draft of the script Worth's comments were not included, but after filming began it was added in and the original ending scrapped. But that is just guessing on my part. The guess assumes the video described above is true.

[–] axtreme93 15 years ago

I would love to believe that. But worth worked on the shell of the cube....doesn't that mean he would have had to be an alien if this were the case? its unlikely they would have just transported the whole cube to another planet.
But not completely ruled out as an option.

[–] ZwanMonster 15 years ago

Thank you for your post, my friend!

[–] chaser_cz 15 years ago

The alien world theory really is awkward. If you watch carefully, you can see that the nuts on the door handles are stamped with DIN standard number. That would either mean that the German Institute for Standardization (Deutsches Institut für Normung) operates on alien worlds, or that the aliens aren't smart enough to produce hexagon nuts with metric coarse and fine pitch thread, so they have to import them from Earth.
Both options don't seem too realistic to me.

[–] kidicarus1983 14 years ago

Yeah aliens do not make sense, and obviously if you count the sequels (its ok if you don't) then this all takes place on our Earth.

Conversations and posts like this are the reasons why I think this movie is fun.

[–] cannaganjabisweed 14 years ago

Well, bearing in mind that such a cube would undoubtedly be the biggest feat of human engineering ever, it wouldn't be much more to ask for us to believe it could also have been sent to another world? I mean, I can't believe they only built the cube for the hell of it anyway, so why not have something fantastic awaiting the people who achieved their escape from it?

[–] Starvenus 14 years ago

I like what you're saying. Which could mean the aliens were filtering their abductions down to those intelligent enough to escape.

[–] au_law2001 14 years ago

Sounds interesting, but I do not buy into the alien thing, though the beach with water that makes metallic grinding noise does sound interesting.

[–] nightdrive 14 years ago

yea i can also support the guys theory there was whoooo like on 05 i heard that theory about an ending some guy saw of this movie where he walks out into the ocean....THE ONLY WAY TO KNOW IS THIS....meet with Vincenzo and ask him hahaha like sit down for a cup of coffee and be like "ok dude what is the cube? like seriously"

[–] edmarsh-3 14 years ago

The ending sounds kinda funky, though I prefer the greater ambiguity
Although I would argue that if scenes ar excised from the final cut they can have very little bearing on how best to interpret it.
An extra and excluded chapter in Pride and Prejudice naming Darcy as secretly some kind of vampire/zombie all along (you can tell which book I just finished reading) wouldn't mean that he really was one for the duration of the book published
believe it is aliens if you so choose but to cite excluded scenes as the bulk of your proof is tenuous at best (this is directed at the OP, I just replied to a later post because I prefer the way it looks on nest view :p)

[–] Poltrgst 10 years ago

I'm in total agreement with you. I think a lot of people want an ending to bring them closure, but grasping at straws for a "big reveal" is probably not going to give anyone the satisfying answer that they're after. I suspect the producers dropped the last scene because they wanted to leave the entire store open-ended and up to interpretation. That is a pretty bold move, even for a science fiction movie.

Here's a mind blowing hypothesis: What if the cube isn't intended to be believable at all? What if the entire movie is supposed to be a metaphor?

[–] arikostinaal 9 years ago

I agree. It's obviously human-made and there's no reason to suspect otherwise.

BUT I'd love to know who made it.

And why?

[–] Megatronika 14 years ago

The thing with this movie is that it's created such a huge mystery, so many things don't add up no matter which way you look at it.
So aliens, by the conventions of cinema, would be the only possible explaination. But it's a lazy one.

There's no way any person or organization could benefit from creating this scenario or experiment.
However it would be the perfect way for an alien race to observe humans in a life-or-death situation, complete strangers with no resources and no knowledge of their predicament.

Or perhaps it was a way of selecting the best candidate for whatever else they wanted to do.

As for humans being involved with the construction, it's not entirely implausible.
From what we saw of the construct, it was massive, it would be difficult to move across space.

But then how would Kazan have ended up on an alien world? Perhaps this alien race has teleportation technology but only on an individual, not anything larger.

But that's what I love about this film, modern cinema generally leaves nothing uncovered. The Star Wars franchise being a prime example.
Remember that one character that was on-screen for half a second? Well now you can watch or read their whole life story.

But not Cube, it wants you to feel what the characters feel, it wants you to think for yourself and by not giving a definitive resolution it keeps you fascinated long after the credits roll.

[–] Andre00 14 years ago

it's so obvious the Aliens contracted Humans to build it. They even payed them hansomely in spacebucks.

[–] NissePistol 14 years ago

Oooh, one million space balls???

[–] XenoBoi 13 years ago

I agree that there's no benefit from building it.
Seems like they just built it for the hell of it and put random people in it for the hell of it.

I'm riding an elephant to your house. I'll see you at six.

[–] XenoBoi 13 years ago

Why in the world would the ocean make metal grinding noises? And why would they get louder as it fades to black? I know that it's for dramatic effect but..I don't see how the noise would be particularly important.
Just wondering, not here to argue (like some >.<).

I'm riding an elephant to your house. I'll see you at six.

[–] monkey-B 13 years ago

Here's a theory of mine (everyone).

I think about it from a 'real world' perspective. If the Cube existed in our reality, it wouldn't be too far-fetched to think the government could be capable of creating (and funding) such a device, for this reason: They fund things all the time that aren't "useful" to mankind, anyway. And as Quentin was analyzing, this could've been the result of some "rich mad man's" twisted game. And their are mad men in power. And their are things about the government we don't know, that they know you don't know, that even if you did, you still wouldn't understand no way, so they play on your rationality to believe what could be false, or true, but that you will sound crazy to speak of it.

Now in Cube 2 (if you have seen it or not, spoilers), the cube is once again a "mad man's game". One person makes it out, but not without the government to greet and congratulate the escaper. Turns out she was hired to be there to be apart of that project, but is killed afterwards. (they wanted no word about this to get out) So, in Cube 1, they all realize they were promptly selected to test the project of the infrastructure. They were put their on purpose. And each one played a part in that Cube's existence (apparently). To me, it was a government conspiracy. Know why? Because nothing like that gets passed "watchers".

If we came from monkeys, why are there still monkeys?

[–] TheLukewarmCereal 10 years ago

There

[–] lokis_angels 11 years ago

Also, why would aliens go through a project like this, if there is a world full of live threatening situations every day. That would be situations in real life, without fabricated threats.

I believe it is best to use the proof given in the movie (this goes for any movie) or series to use to make out what is most likely happening. As said, you can use information from an earlier episode, but not from later installments.

It is said in Cube, that this guy helped design it. Ergo, the cube is an Earth-invention. I don't remember whether or not there is any talk about who giving out the contract.

What puzzles me more is why any of these people are in there.

[–] zenbudda 11 years ago

Not an alien world. Just a very bright exit room. Remember, they were in a dimly lit cube. Watch cube zero.

[–] koholintisland 10 years ago

God damn I want to see the destroyed tape... it has been over 10 years and I need some closure!

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