Maybe I'm being picky, but I was hoping for a puzzlebox that would be a little bit harder to solve. In some scenes, all they did was touch it lightly and it solved itself. I would have rather seen a couple scenes where they struggled over it rubik's cube style until the cenobites popped out.
shareYeah I've thought that top. In the book the box is suppose to be line the hardest puzzle ever but in the movies, All of them really, people seem to figure it out pretty fast. Not just that but people have been able to solve it fast and under pretty extreme duress. So it must be pretty easy. I coudnt put a rubix cube together at the best of times. Much less in a few minutes with monsters chasing me
shareI could be way off, but maybe a subtle thematic hint in the way the box is solved, by gently and skillfully touching and adjusting the right areas with finesse, is meant to imply sexual touch. So, people solve the box by teasing it the way you would tease, uh, a certain part of somebody's body. That is therefor the test that people must pass to open the box, since it implies Freudian instincts and latent sexuality, and so is the kind of person the Cenobites are looing for.
Just a guess, but knowing Clive Barker's work it may be correct.
[truth]I am bisexual. If you dont like that: you can blow me. If you do: same deal.[/truth]
I could be way off, but maybe a subtle thematic hint in the way the box is solved, by gently and skillfully touching and adjusting the right areas with finesse, is meant to imply sexual touch. So, people solve the box by teasing it the way you would tease, uh, a certain part of somebody's body. That is therefor the test that people must pass to open the box, since it implies Freudian instincts and latent sexuality, and so is the kind of person the Cenobites are looing for.
Just a guess, but knowing Clive Barker's work it may be correct.
[truth]I am bisexual. If you dont like that: you can blow me. If you do: same deal.[/truth]
That sounds right to me. I get the impression that there are a lot of movements going on that aren't visible to the unaided eye, going by all the clicking sounds as the characters move their fingers over the surface. Like in Hellraiser III, when Pinhead is tormenting the priest, Joey is rolling the box around in her hands and running her fingers all over it before she causes it to briefly light up, as if some invisible mechanism was activated.
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