Don't look for an answer - this film isn't about answers - it isn't about back-story, evil aliens, conspiracies or good guys/bad guys. The whole premise is basically an excuse - a way put a bunch of characters under pressure and watch what happens. And that's where all its strength lies.
That's not to say the premise isn't imaginative. Six people wake up in a strangely lit room in the shape of a perfect cube. On each wall - above, below, all around, there is a door - that door leads to another cube, sometimes differently lit, but to all appearances exactly the same. The characters are initially complete stereotypes [lifted from a film like The Poseidon Adventure] - the strong cop who begins to take the role of the leader, the jaded doctor who rebels against him, the incredibly quiet young girl, the disillusioned slacker without a cause.
These characters are put under stress when it is revealed that certain rooms in the cube are lethal, which kills a few of their number. And the pressure continues to build as hints of a larger plot, or a scheme to things, become clear. Under these stresses the dynamics and the characters evolve and change.
But the thing that separates Cube from other films in which camaraderie and tensions evolve between a group of people under stress (Speed/Towering Inferno) is that the roles that you believe them to be cast for - the Bruce Willis hero etc - are not the roles they eventually occupy. And more astonishing is that the characters that they eventually occupy seem MORE likely - more honest - than the ones we have been conditioned to expect.
It's still got its moral sense - some people pay for their transgressions, while others are redeemed. But it doesn't preach and it doesn't play up to an audiences trashiest tendencies.
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