The half-faced old man who made the treasure box is clearly a liar

Barbara 2022-12-17 06:31:22

The half-faced old man who made the treasure box was clearly a liar.

1. After pressing, someone you don't know will die; 2. You will get 1 million.

Nima, you didn't say that this man's son would be blind and deaf!

You don’t mention this most important condition in the terms, but you are bound to do it again. You can only say that this old man is a completely cheating scammer, using information inequality and violence to complete an unequal transaction that seems to test human nature. Or, it can be said that this is another form of alien invasion.

Of course, I didn't say that they should press that button. After all, in the beginning, when you hear that if you press the button, someone will be killed at the same time, you should stop right away.

This is a very simple truth: if you don't want yourself and your loved ones to be killed inexplicably because of other people's greed, then you should not kill others because of your own greed.

If you press it before, don't do to others what you don't want it to. After pressing it, Skynet will recover and retribution will be unhappy.


But what I want to talk about here has nothing to do with greed and retribution, but the spirit of contract that Westerners pay most attention to. The so-called transaction in the film is basically an overlord clause with huge hidden inequality.

Using such terms to cheat people can only prove that the old man and the forces behind him are not good birds. I don't understand why many people think that this old man is the incarnation of morality, the master of preaching, the messenger of humanity test, the ultimate decision maker of human life... He is a liar at all.

The ending of the three couples in the story is of course right, but this evil old man and the forces behind him must not be ignored. If one day we encounter a similar situation, in addition to not pressing the button, but also We must fight this evil force to the end.

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The Box quotes

  • Martin Teague: Sir? If you don't mind my asking... why a box?

    Arlington Steward: Your home is a box. Your car is a box on wheels. You drive to work in it. You drive home in it. You sit in your home, staring into a box. It erodes your soul, while the box that is your body inevitably withers... then dies. Whereupon it is placed in the ultimate box, to slowly decompose.

    Martin Teague: It's quite depressing, if you think of it that way.

    Arlington Steward: Don't think of it that way... think of it as a temporary state of being.

  • Arlington Steward: I'm sorry, but I have a very busy day.