I think the Maze Runner is a very interesting type of prison. Where you are incentivized to keep yourself a prisoner, just because the very much planned escape option is a scary unknown. It taunts, mocks the prisoner by regularly opening the path to escape.
Maze Runner is such a great film, I enjoyed it WAY more than I thought I would! Probably because honestly, the name is a bit dumb. "MAZE RUNNER" lol. Hmm, will this story possibly involve mazes, and running? Just like Snow Piercer, awesome movie that took me by surprise, but kinda dumb name. Just imagine the movie trailer voice guy trying to sell it to you, "Coming to a theater near you... SNOW PIERCER" lol. My autocorrect dictionary doesn't even think piercer is a word haha.
This may sound off topic to you but I really disagreed with how she put inaction is sometimes harder than action I think it may generalize human perceptions little does psychology favor action, yes but I don’t think it will ever contrast to our ability of reduction. Any inaction is a reduction that is why the characters probably thought the architect was a villain. I hope you enjoyed my thought have a good day.
Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits" was basically a prison where the cell walls were TV screens the inmates were forced to watch or had to pay to skip, and the only way out was to win a talent show. Black Mirror explored other prison concepts. See episodes "White Bear" and "White Christmas"
Black Mirror even has “Crocodile” about the architect who made the “15 million merits” building as a place for unemployed people to find purpose- people say in the story “15 million merits” that they were on wait lists to get in.
Love that Back Mirror episode because ads are force fed to them which they need to pay credits to skip ads ... Remind us of anything ... Ha ha ha ... Yes you're a mind prisoner and a hamster ... Ha ha ha
Excellent topic! I would add Dark City to your list, it's a movie that frightened me a lot when I was young, the architecture of the city, the moving buildings, Dark City uses it in a brilliant way, but also horrifying. I've also seen Cube and THX 1138 when I was young with my brother, Cube is one of my favorite films, a beautiful plot, I loved the connection between math and architecture. Plus it has some unforgettable deaths in a movie, a bit violent
“Shut it down! Shut it down… FOREVER!” Dark City is best watched in the European cut, not the American cut with the VO. That… rather ruins the film, some say, although I did first see it in that incarnation, even in the UK.
Im fascinating about the movies just watched also the Japanese remake but i was disapointed i witnesses something interesting BUT i don't want to spoiler.
The jail cells of the Eyrie in A Song of Ice and Fire are terrifying. The castle is built high up a very tall mountain and the cells all lack a fourth wall. You’re always free to “leave” by jumping off the cliff if the solitude becomes too much and neither you or the guards are allowed to utter a single word to each other. It’s literally built to induce madness and what we call in French _“l’appel du vide”_
Nowhere near as bad as how I feel about Disney trying to keep the sequel trilogy canon all while going back to the Galactic Civil War Era(with basically the same status quo and aesthetic) and attempt to bank on characters who’s credibility depends on the defeat of the empire and totally undermined by the rise of the first order You can laugh at me all you want but youll echo me when Disney buys out your favorite franchise and does the same
@@gaurav91pandey The message remains intact: And mistake? The Death-star is functionally a tool of imprisonment, it is a threat against all planets - obey the empire, or your planet will be destroyed. It is not a traditional prison - but it is, in effect, one that imposes upon people.
3:57 A perfect example of a structure designed to be navigated in three dimensions (which also uses a system of handles like a jungle gym) would be the International Space Station.
Infinity Chamber (2016) - Fun movie with an interesting prison concept. Prisoners are kept in a single room with an AI to handle their care, both physical and mental. The prisoner has to befriend the AI and convince it to let him out when something goes wrong on the outside and supplies stop being delivered.
I read your description and I put it on immediately, I don’t know what got over me, but man, that was a great watch! Effed with my mind a couple times, for sure, but I loved this!
I never thought I’d see another Infinity Chamber fan in the wild. I loved that movie and it’s always stuck with me even though no else seems to know it.
28:24 these are often called liminal spaces - spaces that are not created to be permanently used and become empty inherently, but you rarely see them empty because they are transitional. This can make them really creepy to be in, both when occupied but specifically when alone, because you feel as you are changing the purpose by occupying a space that was not made to be stayed at.
LiminalSpace are amazing and the are responsable for the concept the idea of the Backrooms. The idea that you can glitch through a wall or the floor and end in this strange place which is huge . Depending who you ask there are the so called Levels and with the levels you have different place's to be. A parking garage and electrical complex, pipes which get Warmer and even hotter. There are also the poolrooms Depending who you ask they are either part of the backrooms or they exist independing from the backrooms. The poolrooms are a place of interconected rooms entire of white tiles water and supposed natural light (maybe the Sun through a Window) It's a contrast to the slightly creepy backrooms.
@@CUBETechie wow that's cool - I was thinking more of liminal spaces that are real but don't feel real, such as hallways in large buildings, or schools at night I guess yeah, the backrooms is a classic liminal space because we clearly aren't meant to be in it, hence the strangeness: if not creepy, then out of place
I think liminal spaces were used in a book Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall (2007). I was expecting to hear a reference to the book when she started talking about non-spaces.
Doctor Who episode, "Heaven Sent" in which the 12th Doctor was imprisoned in his Confession Dial - a closed timeloop cut off from the universe. Perhaps the greatest episode of the 9th series. The way the Doctor eventually escapes is mindbendingly unfathomable.
IIRC In the manga/anime "deadman wonderland" Tokyo was destroyed by an earthquake, so Deadman Wonderland was created, a prison designed to function like a themepark on its surface, the inmates maintain the park and compete in games for the entertainment of paying customers, some of the proceeds go to funding the reconstruction of Tokyo while the rest goes to running the prison and funding military experiments which the prisoners are subjected to
flordia=running to mexico and flordia,then saying mexico is just rapeists,and not talking about their horrible crime problem batman would work all the time trying to fix,and then call the justice legue because his team cant stop the nationlistic sociall change of the state, so they need big help. amanda waller starts killing people like amanda waller useing people like amanda waller to kill. (shes either a anti hero,anti villian, or a the ends type villian,but you see her like a hero not like a villian. the new suside squad movie showed me how bad she is.i didnt know she would do that.its the 1 with the 2 main guys sociall fighting and fight the same way.).
IMO there is a bigger difference but i might be wrong since Deathman Wonderland walks the way of battle manga / anime. Meaning the battles are the important part and the rest is what lead to everything. But it also walks away again, which i highly appreciate. But i have to rewatch since i read reviews and they described the ending different to what i remember and what i remember was very sad. Anyway, the reason for the prison fights were for entertainment of a certain audience. EDIT: I think i remember the Manga Ending since the anime did not follow to the end.
What a ride! I'm starting to realize more and more that you aren't actually an architect. You're an architect, a cinephile, an incredible movie (and TV) reviewer, a bibliophile, a historian, a romantic realist, and a weeb lol. I love your videos, not simply for the raw content but for your interpretation of the things around you. You have such unique views on things, and a remarkable ability to express them. You and your team are doing a crazy impressive job at producing these, and I swear each video is better than the last. I love the tiny little touches of humor and sometimes even outright nerdiness that you bring into your projects, even if some viewers might not ever notice. Your voiceover for the "Day in an Imperial Factory Facility" orientation video was unquestionably top-tier!!! Thank you for being you DamiLee! 😁
Theres actually a mansion i think in Cali that is a circle and actually fully rotates. They had to run plumbing through this crazy system to jeep the gray, waste and clean water seperate while also allowing the house to fully rotate freely. I forget exactly but the guy literally designed his own plumbing system that is able to freely spin while leaving all plumbing connected the whole time. Its really freakin cool.
There are towers that have rotating platforms like the Fernsehturm in Berlin. It has a restaurant and a bar so plumbing and electricity is very much necessary. Rotating building designs are not that unknown.
What a great video. One more interesting concept from an dystopia is a novel from Yevgenij Zamjatin - Us, where every person is given an apartment but every single wall is transparent, accenting on the the big brother/ panopticon idea. Dystopias are always a great source for this type of architectural context.
wait, that reminds me of a mr beast video where he make 100 ppl live in glass rooms and make them compete and vote each other out. I knew it felt pretty dystopian!
The Eureka California Jail (which you can see with Google Earth), is a post-modern building which combines Humboldt County's Superior Court and it's jail. During the "Occupy" movement almost 20 years ago, protesters "occupied" the sidewalk outside the jail so we could both hear prisoners screaming from their little windows, and talk to litigants on their way to court. It was/is a real-world, postmodern dystopian environment. I always thought it would make a good set for a dystopian science fiction film.
Does anyone remember the name of a youtube series from around 2008-2012 about a group of kids who were trapped in rooms with puzzles they needed to solve as part of a gameshow. Each rooms puzzle was personalized for the kid in the room, and held a clue for how they get out of their rooms and win the game. The main character of the series is in his own room with buttons that allows him to talk to each of the kids in their rooms, i believe he was given the name The Operator. There was a deaf girl in one of the rooms, making communication difficult. There was one kid that was given a stationary bike in his room, and later finds out that it powers the lights for all the rooms. This video sparked my memory of this series. At the time(and maybe because I was younger), this series was phenomenal. Every episode better than the last. Releasing on a weekly schedule, it had me as excited to watch as I was for a new episode of something on tv.
That'd be "The Vault". It had a resurgence in popularity about two years ago after a video titled "The Riskiest Show On The Internet" (which is where I heard it from).
The discussion during The Platform section reminded me of a time at work when we switched out our long rectangular tables in our board room and replaced it with a large circular table. Extras would sit along the walls of a large square room. The idea was inspired by "dim sum" where we often went for lunch. One day after the eating part of our lunch ... we were sitting around the table (round one of course with a lazy Susan in the middle) drinking tea ... we were discussing some critical business topic and we had such a great discussion the conversation went on for an extra hour ... "the boss" surmised that the table played a key role in enabling this rich discussion so he ordered the big round table for the boardroom. Thanks for the memory !!
Love the Cube, but I loved the Platform even more. Something about the simplicity of it made it so much more evil. And the whole mind-trip that technically there's enough food for every prisoner (so it's not actually evil), but people will be greedy when given the opportunity, so they end up making it evil on their own. Except there's way more floors than they thought, so really there's not enough food, so it really is evil.... man, I gotta watch that again. Thank you for reminding me of what it's called!
Movies that illustrate their theme through architecture is a great topic for this channel. "The Platform" in particular is a pretty clear metaphor for class. Even in universe it is using inequality to turn prisoners against each other, and it seems pretty obvious they wanted to make a point about how real life inequality turns real life people against each other. "The Cube" is pretty clearly more about torture than imprisonment. I bet the people who made "Saw" are fans.
Well i have to force myself to watch The Cube and any Saw Movie, but i agree, they have a similar sensation to me. The Platform seems fascinating, but again, i have to push myself watching people suffer.
I think "Cube" brings up the idea that the Cube doesn't actually have a purpose - even one so empty as sadism - because it none of the people who built it knew what they were making or why they were making it, and now that it does exists they put people inside it because what else are they going to do to justify the fact that they made it? A mindless system of institutional violence, reproducing itself in a mindless system of architectural violence. I think it extends the theme Dami mentioned, that the architecture suggests a puzzle to be solved, when actually realising that there is no secret meaning is the key to escape.
I've been using your videos to inspire locations for my Eldritch horror D&D campaign. It's been working extremely well to balance these locations with the light-hearted fun and playful moments. My players been loving them.
Recognized the scene from the thumbnail immediately. Love your grounded, real-world, and intelligent perspective on the sci-fi worlds we're surrounded by!
I think it's the way she annunciates her consonants, she hits every letter and provides the space necessary to accentuate hard stops. It's satisfying because it feels like the full word is being expressed, sort of like the satisfaction of filling the final gap in a puzzle to complete it, or when you see materials being spread over other materials to their complete coverage such as spreading mortar between bricks.
This is probably the most interesting architecture channel on youtube right now. Not a single boring second really. Fortress (1992) was also a cool futuristic supermax prison. And by the way you should do an entire episode about the magnetic car network in minority report (+similar concepts)
Fun fact the Cubans basically a Canadian student film mean on a budget of less than a quarter million dollars. Make it one of the highest grossing movies compared to its budget of all time.
Great video! The pathetic guy in Cube is played by Canadian actor David Hewlett who went on to play Dr. Rodney McKay on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis as well as over a 100 other movies and shows.
You should talk about some game architecture, like the underwater facility in SOMA, Columbia in Bioshock Infinite, or Night City from Cyberpunk. Love your content!
I am amazed each time you publish a new video. You make things so interesting. But more importantly, you allow us to see things differently. Blending architecture with psychology, sociology and environmental realities is nothing short of genius ! Thank you !
Watching your videos with the emotions you put it, facial expressions, acting, philosophy, an incredible editing (the list could still going on) leaves you with such a deep feeling, so many thoughts, a will to discover more and read/watch the references from a different angle. I think your channel is one of the top on this platform. "Top" from a perspective of how many elements are combined, planned/thought, narrated and the most important - a content that makes you feel different about culture, psychology, sociology and how important is the role of architecture in our society. Thank you.
The most dehumanising thing about the end of THX is that he SPOIILERS escapes not due to wit or skill but because the computer said here is how many resources I'm will to expend capturing him and he's just about to be captured and the computer calls a holt it is not worth spend the small amount more to capture him
"you ain't gotta be in jail to be doing time" ....Krazy "2 Pac" 1996 when i saw the Cube for the first time as just a kid i was fascinated by that concept
I dont know if you know about Jacob Geller here on RUclips but I feel like it's a channel you would find interesting. He does video essays on various subjects explored by mainly games but which also involve and reference many other artistic mediums. This video actually got me thinking about spaces in games. Some noteworthy ones being Portal 1 & 2, ECHO, Outer Wilds, Manifold Garden, Iron Lung, and The Exit 8. I think on some level, you could say they all involve overcoming our own minds to progress through space. I know Jacob occasionally does collaborate with other creators on the platform so it would be cool to see what the two of you would produce.
Glad I already watched all the movies, I realized I missed quite a bit when I watched them after seeing your analysis. Great video. Also, "the worst she can say is no" her: 5:20 sorry, couldn't resist 😂
This was the coolest - juxtaposition of buildings in movies which were made to move the human body and not just house them, thus the nature of humans is also shaped and changed... super fun, love your videos.
Hey Dami here's one I'm not sure you have spoken about yet, but Logan's Run seems RIGHT up your alley! I loved that movie as a kid when my dad would show me old scifi movies. Essentially, I won't ruin the plot for those who may not know about it...but they live in HUGE dome cities after a post apocalyptic (nuclear I believe) war. Everyone is raised by the computer which also controls everything else important in society. There is no government as such, but just the computer who organizes and orders humans into their various roles in society. People are still free to do as they wish within the rules of society of course and in fact, most people merely enjoy life as hedonistically as possible really. Yet, when someone reaches the age of I believe 30 or is it 33...they are sent for Carousel and "Rebirth" which serves as their religion more or less. Ironically, being a movie from the 70s, your designation to know when it was your time to go to Carousel was your Zodiac birth sign and some number after that. Everyone is born or...created by the computer through I believe like genetic cloning (so you would be continuously recreated I think as Dami 1, Dami 2, Dami 3) and your hand has a gem on the inside that turns Red when your time is up and you must go to Rebirth (which is actually a giant laser that zaps the participants in a ritualistic fashion as the audience cheers believing they are going to Rebirth and so on). Those who discover this and that they're being lied to are called "Runners" who flee the system and "Sandmen" like the main character, must hunt them down and take them out. I don't want to spoil any more of the story but I think it would be PERFECT to cover on your channel! The architecture is of course, very scifi and ironically, most of the scenes within city buildings was filmed at shopping malls in the 70s! It looks like some mixture of shopping malls, Disney World's Epcot and vision of Tomorrowland that Disney had and then a good mix of other influences as well. I can say this much, essentially it's a giant "allegory of the cave" situation in which the ENTIRE city is a prison of sorts to keep people inside away from the outside world to keep them contained, happy, and ignorant that in fact, the outside world survived the war and nature had begun flourishing again. It's actually similar in some ways to a Vault from Fallout only far more grandiose. Here's a short clip that shows what the city was supposed to look like ruclips.net/video/09MXFw2rMFg/видео.html Oh and how could I forget, the legendary Michael York plays the main character!
@BookWyrmOnAString an internet animation, a young girl named Emily is visited by a version of herself from the distant future, and it's a society that is solely preoccupied by the perpetuation of existence. Mankind has explored many avenues to this and it has brought a great deal of depravity into our lives. Future Emily is a third generation clone of Emily and the cloning process is imperfect so the defects have compounded across the generations. The artist seems to really focus on this idea of endless perpetuation and that something kept going forever will become distorted overtime and only someone who observed the beginning will understand what was lost along the way. I wish i could remember his name though.
I was so excited to hear you talking about the platform! It’s one of those movies that really got to me, where the setting was as much a character as those in the story!
The Platform was predictive programming, being released just as we entered 2020 where we would ALL live out our own Platform in every home, showing us who was higher and who was lower. Test complete.
i always loveeeee your videos so much. ive never been interested in architecture but you make it soo interesting. You hooked me after your brutalism video. I always feel so creative after learning from you.
6:40 There's a video game, one of the Farcry series (Farcry 4), where the games puts you in a room and the bad guy says: "I'll be back in 30 minutes and we'll talk" or something similar. The vast majority of players feel like they are in danger and will take the opportunity to escape. If you don't, the character returns, you talk to them, get what you want and the game ends.
It's only shown for a short time in the film (Captain America: civil war), but the federal super-max prison called "the Raft". It's in the middle of the ocean and is capable of submerging under the water to keep its location secret and to keep the prisoners from escaping.
The Cube reminds me of another movie "13 Ghosts" which is about a clockwork house built to trap ghosts in it. Similar visuals of glass walls and gears. But more like a funhouse of mirrors.
Ancient Greece had the first steam powered object, a metal ball partially filled with water, above a flame, with two little steam nozzles to make the ball spin. And they also had a solid physical, and mathematical understanding of gears.
@@EllieInTheRain With her formative knowledge and research team, They can pinpoint where ancient technologies took off in the hands of somebody else. What if they were the hands that advanced their own technology?
@@ericsiemienczuk7217They did not, however, have metallurgy capable of containing pressurised steam, sufficiently plentiful fuel to sustain high temperatures over long periods, or social conditions that made mechanisation more desirable than existing alternatives Technological advancement is non-linear and cannot be said to have "almost happened early" in any meaningful sense
The prisons I thought of right away are the prison ages in the Myst series of games. Yes those puzzle slideshows from the 90s. The architecture of Myst and Riven could be an entire topic on its own as they are designed by text (in the lore of this world) and are in a way 'architecture as puzzles'.
The thumbnail of this video changed so many times, and the title once too?, that I keep coming back to it like "wow another upload already!" You're killing me here
Love your videos looking into these fictional arch. or looking into this huge futuristic concepts but i do miss when u went over more grounded topics :') as an arch student, those videos made me fall in love with architecture, these are a bit hard to relate to... but still really interesting!
11:15 The shape of the table was important. This reminds me of the legend about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. I quote wikipedia: The Round Table at which they meet is a symbol of the equality of its members, who range from sovereign royals to minor nobles. Please watch the movie Excalibur from the 80s. Its about that legend and if i remember right, king Arthur said something about the table.
I was reminded of the Wikipedia article on parliamentary chambers, and how their design informs a country's legislative process. Definitely something I'd like to see this channel cover.
fantastic and inspirational as always, seriously every time i watch one of your videos i come up with a new idea to make in ue5, keep it up you're doing amazing videos!!!
Hey, Dami!! Could you make a video on "why you should become an architect in 2024" and "why you shouldn't become an architect in 2024"? I have doubts about this, but a video like this from you would help a lot 🙏
Interesting episode, very well done and some interesting philosophical thoughts too. I remember a one-man theatrical play with an empty stage one chair and the player. The whole play revolved around a description of such a repetitive prison. So as a spectator the prison was created in my head like reading a book. At the same time on stage his movements were like a dance passing from room to room. It worked quite well but I don't have a reference.
In Andor, they are building components for the Death Star’s planet destroyer laser array. This laser would later kill Casian. They could be building other stuff too.
Okay, are you literally combing my search history to come up with video topics? I was randomly looking up if there was an actual 3d map of the "known" rooms from Cube like ... 12 hours ago. Are you ... The Algorithm Incarnate? Should I fear your dark and terrible powers?
I love this. The first two especially, Cube is one of my go to indie flicks and I still love it for so many reasons. And the use of the panopticon (and evolutions of it) are great for sci-fi. I use it in my own books (specifically Books 5 and 6, Hell's Razer and Shattered Pantheons) as an enemy facility that my heroes have to rescue POWs. I'd be exteremely curious of what you think of its description and design.
Brilliant video! You covered some of my favorite films. Great analysis. You could have included The Matrix, where the "prison" is an entire virtual world. Another great Canadian move starring one of the main actors from Cube is called "Nothing". Here the characters find themselves in an endless empty white void, which could be seen as an infinite prison consisting of the ultimate non-space. I agree with a previous post that Dark City is another great example of a kind of prison with Cube-like dynamic structures. Thanks again for the video, and keep those thought provoking ideas coming!
Gotta love your channel. As a filmmaker, studying each art is a duty and you certainly analyse stories as the product of worldbuilding. Quite literally world building.
Thank you for all of the work you do. It’s so fun exploring fascinating psychological concepts blended with architecture as a whole new idea. You’ve done something very special.
Great video! I have not seen the last one but the premise described reminds me of Equilibrium with Christian Bale. Thank you for talking about Cube. I got so excited. I often quote this movie, with "it's astronomical!" being my favorite.
Another brilliant, absolutely brilliant video. Hats off to the team! Looking forward for the next ! Movies are such an amazing source of architectural comments 👌🏻 Why not try something related to post apocalyptic settings ? Like a society built on the ruins of another ? There are so many different movies covering the topic and so much can be said ! Thanks again !
This was such a great video! A prison concept i found interesting is the Sappers from The Will of the Many. Basically the society works because people cede a part of their "will" to the hierarchy which powers both things like trams and systems, but also allows people further up the hierarchy to be incredibly powerful. Those in the sappers for serious crimes cede so much of their will that they are basically non responsive, while others ceding less slowly develop dementia-like symptoms.
I just really enjoy this person's content. Everything is explained in such an easily digestible fashion, I feel like I want everything explained to me this way.
5:00 I live in a city that has a building which rotates 360 degrees, located here in Curitiba, Brazil. When the building was launched, it was quite successful, but due to the extremely high maintenance costs, it was deactivated. Anyone who wants to know more can just search for ‘rotating building in Curitiba.’
I think you could make an argument for playgrounds, particularly ones like the McDonalds play pens of the late 90s or DZ Discover Zone, being environments and architecture that are designed to be accessed in three dimensions. You climb up tubes, back, down and around, across monkey bars, wade through ball pits, spiral down slides, etc
On a more personal level,I have observed over the years the supression of people simply thru the design and inclusion of amenities ( or lack there of) in housing be it a home, an apartment or less.) Lack of detail in the building,rules forbidding any color but white,more rules about what can be displayed on walls ( if any) and limits as to what you can display,live with around you on a daily basis.Interesting to watch the surroundings chase a person from their own living space,make them doubt their ability to chose,create a vibrant, nurturing environment... psychologically beat them down into an inferior lesser...some are able to defy all odds but they are usually those that have lived outside the parameters of a "box education" nontraditional family, or just have the proper genetics.You are a remarkable creator and presentor,with a keen curious eye.Thank you for sharing your work.
I HUGELY admire your analysis and philosophies on architecture. I literally wonder what the possible motivations behind random building in my area are because of this channel. You and your team are doing a fantastic job! Thank you!
I think the Maze Runner is a very interesting type of prison. Where you are incentivized to keep yourself a prisoner, just because the very much planned escape option is a scary unknown. It taunts, mocks the prisoner by regularly opening the path to escape.
Maze Runner is such a great film, I enjoyed it WAY more than I thought I would! Probably because honestly, the name is a bit dumb. "MAZE RUNNER" lol. Hmm, will this story possibly involve mazes, and running? Just like Snow Piercer, awesome movie that took me by surprise, but kinda dumb name. Just imagine the movie trailer voice guy trying to sell it to you, "Coming to a theater near you... SNOW PIERCER" lol. My autocorrect dictionary doesn't even think piercer is a word haha.
Don't forget the giant killer machines.
This may sound off topic to you but I really disagreed with how she put inaction is sometimes harder than action I think it may generalize human perceptions little does psychology favor action, yes but I don’t think it will ever contrast to our ability of reduction. Any inaction is a reduction that is why the characters probably thought the architect was a villain. I hope you enjoyed my thought have a good day.
it wasn't designed as a prison, though. you are meant to escape
Is that the hunger games type movie with the kids?
Black Mirror episode "Fifteen Million Merits" was basically a prison where the cell walls were TV screens the inmates were forced to watch or had to pay to skip, and the only way out was to win a talent show.
Black Mirror explored other prison concepts. See episodes "White Bear" and "White Christmas"
Black Mirror even has “Crocodile” about the architect who made the “15 million merits” building as a place for unemployed people to find purpose- people say in the story “15 million merits” that they were on wait lists to get in.
Still not over the horror of White Christmas.
Love that Back Mirror episode because ads are force fed to them which they need to pay credits to skip ads ... Remind us of anything ... Ha ha ha ... Yes you're a mind prisoner and a hamster ... Ha ha ha
Yes except it wasn't a prison, it was just a self-contained society. But I can understand misremembering it as a prison for obvious reasons haha
@@JinKee Wow! I totally missed she designed that building!
Excellent topic! I would add Dark City to your list, it's a movie that frightened me a lot when I was young, the architecture of the city, the moving buildings, Dark City uses it in a brilliant way, but also horrifying. I've also seen Cube and THX 1138 when I was young with my brother, Cube is one of my favorite films, a beautiful plot, I loved the connection between math and architecture. Plus it has some unforgettable deaths in a movie, a bit violent
I love Dark City
The only thing stopping it from being perfect was the annoying kid (I don't mind the narrative voice or explanation in the beginning)
Excellent flick, that one.
“Shut it down! Shut it down… FOREVER!”
Dark City is best watched in the European cut, not the American cut with the VO.
That… rather ruins the film, some say, although I did first see it in that incarnation, even in the UK.
Im fascinating about the movies just watched also the Japanese remake but i was disapointed i witnesses something interesting BUT i don't want to spoiler.
The jail cells of the Eyrie in A Song of Ice and Fire are terrifying. The castle is built high up a very tall mountain and the cells all lack a fourth wall. You’re always free to “leave” by jumping off the cliff if the solitude becomes too much and neither you or the guards are allowed to utter a single word to each other. It’s literally built to induce madness and what we call in French _“l’appel du vide”_
Also, different cells have differently angled floors so if you are not careful you can accidentally roll out of the cell and fall
The cell floors also slope outwards btw
The inmates in Andor were building the parts for the massive reflector dish of the Death Star, as alluded to in the final episode.
Not just in the final episode, but in the post-credit scene.
I don’t know how to feel when your favorite RUclipsr makes an error about Star Wars.
Nowhere near as bad as how I feel about Disney trying to keep the sequel trilogy canon all while going back to the Galactic Civil War Era(with basically the same status quo and aesthetic) and attempt to bank on characters who’s credibility depends on the defeat of the empire and totally undermined by the rise of the first order
You can laugh at me all you want but youll echo me when Disney buys out your favorite franchise and does the same
@@gaurav91pandey The message remains intact: And mistake? The Death-star is functionally a tool of imprisonment, it is a threat against all planets - obey the empire, or your planet will be destroyed. It is not a traditional prison - but it is, in effect, one that imposes upon people.
3:57 A perfect example of a structure designed to be navigated in three dimensions (which also uses a system of handles like a jungle gym) would be the International Space Station.
there is also the "FLIP" which is a sience ship that can change its orientation.
didn't know this existed. It's really frightening to see it tilt. Thank you @@Hangman404 for your comment !
Infinity Chamber (2016) - Fun movie with an interesting prison concept. Prisoners are kept in a single room with an AI to handle their care, both physical and mental. The prisoner has to befriend the AI and convince it to let him out when something goes wrong on the outside and supplies stop being delivered.
Interesting! Will check it out!
I read your description and I put it on immediately, I don’t know what got over me, but man, that was a great watch! Effed with my mind a couple times, for sure, but I loved this!
I never thought I’d see another Infinity Chamber fan in the wild. I loved that movie and it’s always stuck with me even though no else seems to know it.
@@DamiLeeArch THE line project is scale back to 2.4 km. Make video on it.
Fascinating and fun as always! Cheers :)
28:24 these are often called liminal spaces - spaces that are not created to be permanently used and become empty inherently, but you rarely see them empty because they are transitional. This can make them really creepy to be in, both when occupied but specifically when alone, because you feel as you are changing the purpose by occupying a space that was not made to be stayed at.
LiminalSpace are amazing and the are responsable for the concept the idea of the Backrooms.
The idea that you can glitch through a wall or the floor and end in this strange place which is huge .
Depending who you ask there are the so called Levels and with the levels you have different place's to be. A parking garage and electrical complex, pipes which get Warmer and even hotter.
There are also the poolrooms
Depending who you ask they are either part of the backrooms or they exist independing from the backrooms.
The poolrooms are a place of interconected rooms entire of white tiles water and supposed natural light (maybe the Sun through a Window)
It's a contrast to the slightly creepy backrooms.
@@CUBETechie wow that's cool - I was thinking more of liminal spaces that are real but don't feel real, such as hallways in large buildings, or schools at night
I guess yeah, the backrooms is a classic liminal space because we clearly aren't meant to be in it, hence the strangeness: if not creepy, then out of place
@@ArsonTheShroom That last sentence about "not meant to be in it" gave me flashbacks to The Langoliers
1995 Horror film based on Steven King's work.
@@Valdray haha I mean liminal spaces give those vibes in some ways:]
I think liminal spaces were used in a book Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall (2007). I was expecting to hear a reference to the book when she started talking about non-spaces.
The cube, Cube 2, and The platform are some of my favorite movies of all time. Their use of spaces as the basis of the plot were brilliant.
I agree, as a kid, The Cube scared me soo much
The circle is great too.
Cube 2 was mostly lame and forgettable, for me at least. Now, Cube Zero - that was a masterpiece!
The fact that they called it "the Cube 2" and not The Cube² feels like a missed opportunity
What about the movie Sphere? Let's not discriminate.
Doctor Who episode, "Heaven Sent" in which the 12th Doctor was imprisoned in his Confession Dial - a closed timeloop cut off from the universe. Perhaps the greatest episode of the 9th series. The way the Doctor eventually escapes is mindbendingly unfathomable.
Punching his way to freedom yah
IIRC
In the manga/anime "deadman wonderland" Tokyo was destroyed by an earthquake, so Deadman Wonderland was created, a prison designed to function like a themepark on its surface, the inmates maintain the park and compete in games for the entertainment of paying customers, some of the proceeds go to funding the reconstruction of Tokyo while the rest goes to running the prison and funding military experiments which the prisoners are subjected to
I love Deadman Wonderland and it's concept, I wish it was more popular, unfortunately the plot and ending was kinda meh
I 150% forgot about it.
flordia=running to mexico and flordia,then saying mexico is just rapeists,and not talking about their horrible crime problem
batman would work all the time trying to fix,and then call the justice legue because his team cant stop the nationlistic sociall change of the state,
so they need big help.
amanda waller starts killing people like amanda waller useing people like amanda waller to kill.
(shes either a anti hero,anti villian,
or a the ends type villian,but you see her like a hero not like a villian.
the new suside squad movie showed me how bad she is.i didnt know she would do that.its the 1 with the 2 main guys sociall fighting and fight the same way.).
IMO there is a bigger difference but i might be wrong since Deathman Wonderland walks the way of battle manga / anime. Meaning the battles are the important part and the rest is what lead to everything. But it also walks away again, which i highly appreciate.
But i have to rewatch since i read reviews and they described the ending different to what i remember and what i remember was very sad.
Anyway, the reason for the prison fights were for entertainment of a certain audience.
EDIT: I think i remember the Manga Ending since the anime did not follow to the end.
@@sriracha_sauce Which ending Manga or Anime?
What a ride! I'm starting to realize more and more that you aren't actually an architect. You're an architect, a cinephile, an incredible movie (and TV) reviewer, a bibliophile, a historian, a romantic realist, and a weeb lol. I love your videos, not simply for the raw content but for your interpretation of the things around you. You have such unique views on things, and a remarkable ability to express them. You and your team are doing a crazy impressive job at producing these, and I swear each video is better than the last. I love the tiny little touches of humor and sometimes even outright nerdiness that you bring into your projects, even if some viewers might not ever notice. Your voiceover for the "Day in an Imperial Factory Facility" orientation video was unquestionably top-tier!!! Thank you for being you DamiLee! 😁
Theres actually a mansion i think in Cali that is a circle and actually fully rotates. They had to run plumbing through this crazy system to jeep the gray, waste and clean water seperate while also allowing the house to fully rotate freely. I forget exactly but the guy literally designed his own plumbing system that is able to freely spin while leaving all plumbing connected the whole time. Its really freakin cool.
Tom Scott made a video about the rotating house and its unique plumbing. It's very cool!
@tayet6875 yeah that's who it was! 😅 of course it was a Tom Scott video. Definitly a really fascinating one.
Yes, it's in San Diego.
There are towers that have rotating platforms like the Fernsehturm in Berlin. It has a restaurant and a bar so plumbing and electricity is very much necessary. Rotating building designs are not that unknown.
@@c_karis_1 Almost all have such utilities built into a non rotating inner core. The house is built so the utilities are in the rotating section.
What a great video. One more interesting concept from an dystopia is a novel from Yevgenij Zamjatin - Us, where every person is given an apartment but every single wall is transparent, accenting on the the big brother/ panopticon idea. Dystopias are always a great source for this type of architectural context.
Us is a fantastic novel!
wait, that reminds me of a mr beast video where he make 100 ppl live in glass rooms and make them compete and vote each other out. I knew it felt pretty dystopian!
The Eureka California Jail (which you can see with Google Earth), is a post-modern building which combines Humboldt County's Superior Court and it's jail. During the "Occupy" movement almost 20 years ago, protesters "occupied" the sidewalk outside the jail so we could both hear prisoners screaming from their little windows, and talk to litigants on their way to court. It was/is a real-world, postmodern dystopian environment. I always thought it would make a good set for a dystopian science fiction film.
Does anyone remember the name of a youtube series from around 2008-2012 about a group of kids who were trapped in rooms with puzzles they needed to solve as part of a gameshow. Each rooms puzzle was personalized for the kid in the room, and held a clue for how they get out of their rooms and win the game. The main character of the series is in his own room with buttons that allows him to talk to each of the kids in their rooms, i believe he was given the name The Operator. There was a deaf girl in one of the rooms, making communication difficult. There was one kid that was given a stationary bike in his room, and later finds out that it powers the lights for all the rooms.
This video sparked my memory of this series. At the time(and maybe because I was younger), this series was phenomenal. Every episode better than the last. Releasing on a weekly schedule, it had me as excited to watch as I was for a new episode of something on tv.
theres the escape room movies
That'd be "The Vault". It had a resurgence in popularity about two years ago after a video titled "The Riskiest Show On The Internet" (which is where I heard it from).
The discussion during The Platform section reminded me of a time at work when we switched out our long rectangular tables in our board room and replaced it with a large circular table. Extras would sit along the walls of a large square room. The idea was inspired by "dim sum" where we often went for lunch. One day after the eating part of our lunch ... we were sitting around the table (round one of course with a lazy Susan in the middle) drinking tea ... we were discussing some critical business topic and we had such a great discussion the conversation went on for an extra hour ... "the boss" surmised that the table played a key role in enabling this rich discussion so he ordered the big round table for the boardroom. Thanks for the memory !!
Love the Cube, but I loved the Platform even more. Something about the simplicity of it made it so much more evil. And the whole mind-trip that technically there's enough food for every prisoner (so it's not actually evil), but people will be greedy when given the opportunity, so they end up making it evil on their own. Except there's way more floors than they thought, so really there's not enough food, so it really is evil.... man, I gotta watch that again. Thank you for reminding me of what it's called!
Movies that illustrate their theme through architecture is a great topic for this channel.
"The Platform" in particular is a pretty clear metaphor for class. Even in universe it is using inequality to turn prisoners against each other, and it seems pretty obvious they wanted to make a point about how real life inequality turns real life people against each other.
"The Cube" is pretty clearly more about torture than imprisonment. I bet the people who made "Saw" are fans.
Well i have to force myself to watch The Cube and any Saw Movie, but i agree, they have a similar sensation to me.
The Platform seems fascinating, but again, i have to push myself watching people suffer.
I think "Cube" brings up the idea that the Cube doesn't actually have a purpose - even one so empty as sadism - because it none of the people who built it knew what they were making or why they were making it, and now that it does exists they put people inside it because what else are they going to do to justify the fact that they made it? A mindless system of institutional violence, reproducing itself in a mindless system of architectural violence. I think it extends the theme Dami mentioned, that the architecture suggests a puzzle to be solved, when actually realising that there is no secret meaning is the key to escape.
I've been using your videos to inspire locations for my Eldritch horror D&D campaign. It's been working extremely well to balance these locations with the light-hearted fun and playful moments. My players been loving them.
When I started watching this channel like 8 months ago I never expected I'd enjoy it so much. Good video and thanks for the entertainment!
Recognized the scene from the thumbnail immediately. Love your grounded, real-world, and intelligent perspective on the sci-fi worlds we're surrounded by!
I really enjoy the way she says words. would love an audiobook read by Dami
I think her voice cracks really would not let it feel stale at any point. Always makes me smile (because I find it funny and endearing)
Weird considering how many she mispronounces
@@thatotherted3555 maybe that's why they like it
@@gottes1stsenpai30 That hadn't occurred to me. It's certainly possible.
I think it's the way she annunciates her consonants, she hits every letter and provides the space necessary to accentuate hard stops. It's satisfying because it feels like the full word is being expressed, sort of like the satisfaction of filling the final gap in a puzzle to complete it, or when you see materials being spread over other materials to their complete coverage such as spreading mortar between bricks.
This is probably the most interesting architecture channel on youtube right now. Not a single boring second really. Fortress (1992) was also a cool futuristic supermax prison. And by the way you should do an entire episode about the magnetic car network in minority report (+similar concepts)
Yes I did here a bit :) ruclips.net/video/G5GL836kpls/видео.html Thanks for watching!
Fun fact the Cubans basically a Canadian student film mean on a budget of less than a quarter million dollars. Make it one of the highest grossing movies compared to its budget of all time.
Great video! The pathetic guy in Cube is played by Canadian actor David Hewlett who went on to play Dr. Rodney McKay on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis as well as over a 100 other movies and shows.
You should talk about some game architecture, like the underwater facility in SOMA, Columbia in Bioshock Infinite, or Night City from Cyberpunk. Love your content!
The architecture in Control is sooooo interesting because of how it uses it in certain areas.
Pathos-II is SUCH a good idea
NaissancE is also Worth of playing or at least watch lets plays or walkthroughs
I am amazed each time you publish a new video. You make things so interesting. But more importantly, you allow us to see things differently. Blending architecture with psychology, sociology and environmental realities is nothing short of genius ! Thank you !
Can you please narrate everything from now on? Books movies podcasts idc just narrate
her content is around interesting architecture, it's more than just narration :) but i agree her voice is so soothing!
You a big fan of vocal fry and mouth noise?
I love the way she talks
She’s sounds like my fiancé who who’s a therapist who has the cutest lisp 🥰❤
True.. Save money on melatonin
Watching your videos with the emotions you put it, facial expressions, acting, philosophy, an incredible editing (the list could still going on) leaves you with such a deep feeling, so many thoughts, a will to discover more and read/watch the references from a different angle.
I think your channel is one of the top on this platform. "Top" from a perspective of how many elements are combined, planned/thought, narrated and the most important - a content that makes you feel different about culture, psychology, sociology and how important is the role of architecture in our society. Thank you.
The most dehumanising thing about the end of THX is that he SPOIILERS escapes not due to wit or skill but because the computer said here is how many resources I'm will to expend capturing him and he's just about to be captured and the computer calls a holt it is not worth spend the small amount more to capture him
I love how much your personality came through in this video! Made me smile.
Same! The little "Actually..." blurb on the andor chapter made me chuckle too hehe 🤓😋
"you ain't gotta be in jail to be doing time" ....Krazy "2 Pac" 1996
when i saw the Cube for the first time as just a kid i was fascinated by that concept
I dont know if you know about Jacob Geller here on RUclips but I feel like it's a channel you would find interesting. He does video essays on various subjects explored by mainly games but which also involve and reference many other artistic mediums. This video actually got me thinking about spaces in games. Some noteworthy ones being Portal 1 & 2, ECHO, Outer Wilds, Manifold Garden, Iron Lung, and The Exit 8. I think on some level, you could say they all involve overcoming our own minds to progress through space. I know Jacob occasionally does collaborate with other creators on the platform so it would be cool to see what the two of you would produce.
NaissancE is amazing
Glad I already watched all the movies, I realized I missed quite a bit when I watched them after seeing your analysis. Great video.
Also,
"the worst she can say is no"
her: 5:20
sorry, couldn't resist 😂
This was the coolest - juxtaposition of buildings in movies which were made to move the human body and not just house them, thus the nature of humans is also shaped and changed... super fun, love your videos.
Woah just discovered your channel recently but I fell in love the moment I watched the first vid, keep it up!!!
Thanks!
This might be your best video yet. I am impressed. Thank you!
Hey Dami here's one I'm not sure you have spoken about yet, but Logan's Run seems RIGHT up your alley! I loved that movie as a kid when my dad would show me old scifi movies. Essentially, I won't ruin the plot for those who may not know about it...but they live in HUGE dome cities after a post apocalyptic (nuclear I believe) war. Everyone is raised by the computer which also controls everything else important in society. There is no government as such, but just the computer who organizes and orders humans into their various roles in society. People are still free to do as they wish within the rules of society of course and in fact, most people merely enjoy life as hedonistically as possible really. Yet, when someone reaches the age of I believe 30 or is it 33...they are sent for Carousel and "Rebirth" which serves as their religion more or less. Ironically, being a movie from the 70s, your designation to know when it was your time to go to Carousel was your Zodiac birth sign and some number after that. Everyone is born or...created by the computer through I believe like genetic cloning (so you would be continuously recreated I think as Dami 1, Dami 2, Dami 3) and your hand has a gem on the inside that turns Red when your time is up and you must go to Rebirth (which is actually a giant laser that zaps the participants in a ritualistic fashion as the audience cheers believing they are going to Rebirth and so on). Those who discover this and that they're being lied to are called "Runners" who flee the system and "Sandmen" like the main character, must hunt them down and take them out.
I don't want to spoil any more of the story but I think it would be PERFECT to cover on your channel!
The architecture is of course, very scifi and ironically, most of the scenes within city buildings was filmed at shopping malls in the 70s! It looks like some mixture of shopping malls, Disney World's Epcot and vision of Tomorrowland that Disney had and then a good mix of other influences as well. I can say this much, essentially it's a giant "allegory of the cave" situation in which the ENTIRE city is a prison of sorts to keep people inside away from the outside world to keep them contained, happy, and ignorant that in fact, the outside world survived the war and nature had begun flourishing again. It's actually similar in some ways to a Vault from Fallout only far more grandiose.
Here's a short clip that shows what the city was supposed to look like ruclips.net/video/09MXFw2rMFg/видео.html
Oh and how could I forget, the legendary Michael York plays the main character!
The inmates in Andor were creating parts for the Death Star. ;)
"I am a third generation Emily, and I am pleased to report that the cloning program is going well, with very little mental deteroriatikns"
My spoon is too big.
Silly hats only
"Dead bodies"
What is this a reference to?
@BookWyrmOnAString an internet animation, a young girl named Emily is visited by a version of herself from the distant future, and it's a society that is solely preoccupied by the perpetuation of existence. Mankind has explored many avenues to this and it has brought a great deal of depravity into our lives. Future Emily is a third generation clone of Emily and the cloning process is imperfect so the defects have compounded across the generations. The artist seems to really focus on this idea of endless perpetuation and that something kept going forever will become distorted overtime and only someone who observed the beginning will understand what was lost along the way. I wish i could remember his name though.
I can believe him. He’s Dr Rodney McKay from Stargate Atlantis. Same character basically, just different scenario.
I was so excited to hear you talking about the platform! It’s one of those movies that really got to me, where the setting was as much a character as those in the story!
The Platform was predictive programming, being released just as we entered 2020 where we would ALL live out our own Platform in every home, showing us who was higher and who was lower. Test complete.
i always loveeeee your videos so much. ive never been interested in architecture but you make it soo interesting. You hooked me after your brutalism video. I always feel so creative after learning from you.
What's crazy about the slave built prison is that it's completely constitutional IRL
I LOVE CUBE. This movie blew my mine when I was in my 20s and i saw it for the first time.
I absolutely love the way you're thinking!! I'm glad I found your channel x
Oh the Cube thumbnail alone gets a Like from me. A forgotten masterpiece.
I so agree! Awesome awesome movie, in my list of sci fi films named for geometric features. Have you seen the sequel?
bah! haven’t forgotten-think on it often!
Cube is top 10 scifi horror
Same! It got me too🤩
a tesseract cube 👽👽👽💯 🪽
6:40 There's a video game, one of the Farcry series (Farcry 4), where the games puts you in a room and the bad guy says: "I'll be back in 30 minutes and we'll talk" or something similar. The vast majority of players feel like they are in danger and will take the opportunity to escape. If you don't, the character returns, you talk to them, get what you want and the game ends.
ok but i actually love the editor's note at 20:48
please dont make it a one-time gag
Dennis Villenuves short movie 'Next floor' (2008) is really similar to the Platform. Awesome video btw, Dami
I recently found your channel & instantly subscribed because of such amazing & informative content ❤ thanks for sharing such amazing content
What a thoughtful and well put together video. Your script and editing are very high quality, I learned a lot❤
It's only shown for a short time in the film (Captain America: civil war), but the federal super-max prison called "the Raft". It's in the middle of the ocean and is capable of submerging under the water to keep its location secret and to keep the prisoners from escaping.
One of her best videos so far, love the use of good movies to convey the understanding of the concepts and broaden my knowledge.
What an awesome concept for a video! Beautifully done
Your passion and excitement is very refreshing. Thanks for sharing, all of it - the beautiful, the awe inspiring and the twisted
The Cube reminds me of another movie "13 Ghosts" which is about a clockwork house built to trap ghosts in it.
Similar visuals of glass walls and gears. But more like a funhouse of mirrors.
Love the passion and nerding out about Andor/Narkina 5. Keep showing this fun side of yourself!
I have a video idea: Points in architectural history where a culture was just a few steps away from what could have been ground breaking discoveries.
if they never made the discoveries how do we know if they where only a few steps away from them
Ancient Greece had the first steam powered object, a metal ball partially filled with water, above a flame, with two little steam nozzles to make the ball spin. And they also had a solid physical, and mathematical understanding of gears.
@@EllieInTheRain With her formative knowledge and research team, They can pinpoint where ancient technologies took off in the hands of somebody else. What if they were the hands that advanced their own technology?
@@ericsiemienczuk7217 That is a good example.
@@ericsiemienczuk7217They did not, however, have metallurgy capable of containing pressurised steam, sufficiently plentiful fuel to sustain high temperatures over long periods, or social conditions that made mechanisation more desirable than existing alternatives
Technological advancement is non-linear and cannot be said to have "almost happened early" in any meaningful sense
The prisons I thought of right away are the prison ages in the Myst series of games. Yes those puzzle slideshows from the 90s. The architecture of Myst and Riven could be an entire topic on its own as they are designed by text (in the lore of this world) and are in a way 'architecture as puzzles'.
Literally watched Cube yesterday for the first time.
How'd you like it?
@@VanBurenPhilips Enjoyed it! Creative use of space and limited actors to create a huge scope
My first contact with the movie was Cube 2 Hypercube and then i found the other movies
The thumbnail of this video changed so many times, and the title once too?, that I keep coming back to it like "wow another upload already!"
You're killing me here
Another fantastic film Dami. Thanks
Love your videos looking into these fictional arch. or looking into this huge futuristic concepts but i do miss when u went over more grounded topics :') as an arch student, those videos made me fall in love with architecture, these are a bit hard to relate to... but still really interesting!
She's a lovely quirky girl 😊
video update on my project is on the way ;) they just take way more time to make!
Dami Lee you are reaching a new level of presentation! Perhaps being the spokes person for the Architectural Industry.
11:15 The shape of the table was important. This reminds me of the legend about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. I quote wikipedia: The Round Table at which they meet is a symbol of the equality of its members, who range from sovereign royals to minor nobles. Please watch the movie Excalibur from the 80s. Its about that legend and if i remember right, king Arthur said something about the table.
I was reminded of the Wikipedia article on parliamentary chambers, and how their design informs a country's legislative process. Definitely something I'd like to see this channel cover.
fantastic and inspirational as always, seriously every time i watch one of your videos i come up with a new idea to make in ue5, keep it up you're doing amazing videos!!!
I've explored some prisons like these in real life, they're crazy!
Hey, Dami!! Could you make a video on "why you should become an architect in 2024" and "why you shouldn't become an architect in 2024"? I have doubts about this, but a video like this from you would help a lot 🙏
TREE CITY.. Do that next.. There's a weird idea of people living in on and around Gaint trees Shaped by man?? Umm wtf Could go wrong?
Interesting episode, very well done and some interesting philosophical thoughts too. I remember a one-man theatrical play with an empty stage one chair and the player. The whole play revolved around a description of such a repetitive prison. So as a spectator the prison was created in my head like reading a book. At the same time on stage his movements were like a dance passing from room to room. It worked quite well but I don't have a reference.
No Oldboy? 😂😂😂😂😂
One of the best episodes yet.
Well at least they weren't Oubliettes! 😁
Wdym I’m having so much fun in here!
You should meet my room mate Jerry!
🦴🦴💀🦴🦴🦴
In Andor, they are building components for the Death Star’s planet destroyer laser array. This laser would later kill Casian.
They could be building other stuff too.
Okay, are you literally combing my search history to come up with video topics? I was randomly looking up if there was an actual 3d map of the "known" rooms from Cube like ... 12 hours ago. Are you ... The Algorithm Incarnate? Should I fear your dark and terrible powers?
I love this. The first two especially, Cube is one of my go to indie flicks and I still love it for so many reasons. And the use of the panopticon (and evolutions of it) are great for sci-fi. I use it in my own books (specifically Books 5 and 6, Hell's Razer and Shattered Pantheons) as an enemy facility that my heroes have to rescue POWs. I'd be exteremely curious of what you think of its description and design.
Read the Manga Blame! You're welcome.
Brilliant video! You covered some of my favorite films. Great analysis. You could have included The Matrix, where the "prison" is an entire virtual world. Another great Canadian move starring one of the main actors from Cube is called "Nothing". Here the characters find themselves in an endless empty white void, which could be seen as an infinite prison consisting of the ultimate non-space. I agree with a previous post that Dark City is another great example of a kind of prison with Cube-like dynamic structures. Thanks again for the video, and keep those thought provoking ideas coming!
Nothing could be an alternative ending to Cube? 😉
Gotta love your channel. As a filmmaker, studying each art is a duty and you certainly analyse stories as the product of worldbuilding. Quite literally world building.
I love these videos that goes into the physiological affects of Architecture, I use them for inspiration in my Dungeons and Dragons world
Thank you for all of the work you do. It’s so fun exploring fascinating psychological concepts blended with architecture as a whole new idea. You’ve done something very special.
Yessss, i was waiting for The Platform to be discussed here!
Another great video overall!
Out-freakin'-standing !!! Hands down one of your top 10 best videos of all time.
Merci!
Great video! I have not seen the last one but the premise described reminds me of Equilibrium with Christian Bale.
Thank you for talking about Cube. I got so excited. I often quote this movie, with "it's astronomical!" being my favorite.
I enjoyed this video! Prison architecture definitely makes an impact to the population within.
Looking forward to the next video!!
Another brilliant, absolutely brilliant video. Hats off to the team! Looking forward for the next !
Movies are such an amazing source of architectural comments 👌🏻
Why not try something related to post apocalyptic settings ? Like a society built on the ruins of another ? There are so many different movies covering the topic and so much can be said !
Thanks again !
I forgot about the Cube movie. Movies like that are so good. They aren't like the typical horror/thriller movie.
Excellent work - it clearly took a lot of time and effort to put this together, and it shows :)
This channel is so underrated! Please keep this awesome content coming
This was such a great video! A prison concept i found interesting is the Sappers from The Will of the Many. Basically the society works because people cede a part of their "will" to the hierarchy which powers both things like trams and systems, but also allows people further up the hierarchy to be incredibly powerful. Those in the sappers for serious crimes cede so much of their will that they are basically non responsive, while others ceding less slowly develop dementia-like symptoms.
I just really enjoy this person's content. Everything is explained in such an easily digestible fashion, I feel like I want everything explained to me this way.
5:00
I live in a city that has a building which rotates 360 degrees, located here in Curitiba, Brazil. When the building was launched, it was quite successful, but due to the extremely high maintenance costs, it was deactivated.
Anyone who wants to know more can just search for ‘rotating building in Curitiba.’
every single in depth movie review in this is fascinating. I had no idea of Lucas' 1972 film. will watch it soon!
I know his style well enough to know that it's probably worth watching... Now to find actual free time to do it.
In imagery it feels like Brave New World, but mood is more akin to 1984.
I think you could make an argument for playgrounds, particularly ones like the McDonalds play pens of the late 90s or DZ Discover Zone, being environments and architecture that are designed to be accessed in three dimensions. You climb up tubes, back, down and around, across monkey bars, wade through ball pits, spiral down slides, etc
On a more personal level,I have observed over the years the supression of people simply thru the design and inclusion of amenities ( or lack there of) in housing be it a home, an apartment or less.) Lack of detail in the building,rules forbidding any color but white,more rules about what can be displayed on walls ( if any) and limits as to what you can display,live with around you on a daily basis.Interesting to watch the surroundings chase a person from their own living space,make them doubt their ability to chose,create a vibrant, nurturing environment... psychologically beat them down into an inferior lesser...some are able to defy all odds but they are usually those that have lived outside the parameters of a "box education" nontraditional family, or just have the proper genetics.You are a remarkable creator and presentor,with a keen curious eye.Thank you for sharing your work.
I HUGELY admire your analysis and philosophies on architecture. I literally wonder what the possible motivations behind random building in my area are because of this channel. You and your team are doing a fantastic job! Thank you!