THE BOX: Why Do Movies Make Everything So Complicated? (VIDEO)

In the upcoming Cameron Diaz flick "The Box," a suburban couple with a young child receives a simple box as a gift. A stranger tells them that if they press the button inside they will receive $1 million, but it will simultaneously kill someone they don't know. According to the film's producers these characters "find themselves in the cross-hairs of a startling moral dilemma and must face the true nature of their humanity."

Fortunately for Mark, when he gets a visit from a stranger with a box for the following Funny or Die video, he has a much easier time with this choice.


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[VincentRose]

He should have gotten 6 million dollars

[RealityBaseCamp]

Then he could find the person who died . . . and rebuild them!

[Ken Freedom]

That made me hurt with laughter.

It's actually a pretty ridiculous question. In the time it took you to watch that video 210 people on this planet died. In the time it takes you to reach out and press the button, five or six people will die anyways. One more seems rather trivial.

However, they're offering you $1 million. You can put $60k in a low yield low risk trust fund and support 10 children from cradle to adulthood through a charity organization, thus saving 10 lives, and still have $940k to go crazy with.

That's not much of a moral dilemma. 10 people's lives saved in exchange for one more person added to the 153,000 or so people who die everyday, and you get rich too? I say push the button.

[skantea]

???

But if it's me presing the button, and I don't know you.......

get it now?

[thefooligan5]

Well you just communicated so I would argue that counts as knowing on some level.
;)

[bzb]

Now this is funny my stomach hurts with laughter.

[Zech Ehnert]

verry funny

[rivergirl301]

Actually, the idea of pushing a button and getting $1 million, but someone dies, from the 1980s book "The Book of Questions" buy Gregory Stock, PhD.

[vorpalmusic]

This is a far older idea. One similar incarnation of it is from a short story in 1902 called "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs.

[AbsolutDemocrat]

This was a half-hour Twilight Zone plot from the 80s. How can they drag this thing out for 90-120 minutes?

[wolfmason]

The same can be said of every single M Night Shamalamadingdong movie.

In fact, i think all of them would have made great 1/2 hour episodes. Too bad...

[plooger]

Eh, I think the first two were entertaining throughout, but I've definitely viewed the rest as overextended Twilight Zone episodes, and at least one script that should have been tossed in the bin.

[Ray E]

I hope the people dying were CEO's and some other politicians

[rivergirl301]

I hope they worked the health insurance industry.

[audadvnc]

That guy should go work for Blackwater!

[JustinL]

HuffPost's Pick

These two are part of a Canadian comedy troupe called Picnicface. I've seen them preform live and they're stunningly hilarious.

[thefooligan5]

And Mark Little, the guy in glasses, just won the Comedy Network's recent stand-up contest which awarded him a $25,000 purse. Pretty sweet! He definitely deserved it and the whole of picnicface deserves their own show akin to Kids in the Hall.

[JustinL]

Oh he won? Cool! These guys are so much funnier live.