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The Cube
1969 · Film · 53 min
Directed by Jim Henson
An unnamed character is trapped in a cubical white room where others can enter and leave, but which he himself apparently cannot leave. A stool is brought in covered in strawberry jam, the furniture changes throughout the play. The main character is subjected to an increasingly puzzling and frustrating series of encounters, as a variety of people come through various hidden doors. But, as many remind him, he can only leave through his own door, so he must find it.
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These quotes are from the 1997 film Cube [1], not the 1969 The Cube [2] of your rotten tomatoes link.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cube_(film)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cube_(film)
Reminds me of the movie The Cube[1].
Some select quotes (minor spoiler alert):
"There is no conspiracy. Nobody is in charge. It's a headless blunder operating under the illusion of a master plan."
"It's all the same machine, right? The Pentagon, multinational corporations, the police. If you do one little job, you build a widget in Saskatoon, and the next thing you know, it's two miles under the desert, the essential component of a death machine."
Quentin: But why put people in it?
Worth: Because it's here. You have to use it, or you admit that it's pointless.
Quentin: But it is pointless.
Worth: Quentin... that's my point.
[1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the-cube/
Indeed ... not to mention that once you have a security apparatus in place ... the imperative is to use it ... to justify it's existence by making arrests. The system becomes it's own justification. Reminds me a bit of the movie: "The Cube".