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It's a well-thought-out, thought-provoking short film that's only about seven minutes long. The film won the Oscar for Best Short Film in 1990 and the Silver Award for Best Short Film at the German Film Festival in 1989. It was written by the West Delaunstein brothers.
In a surreal space, five similar-looking, expressionless men form a circle, surveying this unfamiliar place. When one of them moved a step slightly, the ground they were standing on actually tilted - it turned out that the five of them were standing on the same square board like a seesaw, and there was only a fulcrum directly below the board. will destroy the static equilibrium of the plank. At first they walked to the edge of the plank in tacit understanding, trying to keep the plank balanced, and after a while, they all took out their fishing rods to fish. One of them caught a wooden box. When he wanted to open the wooden box, the other four also wanted to find out out of curiosity, so they broke the balance and made the box slide towards themselves...
(Spoilers begin, watch carefully)
All four of them were walking around trying to get the box, but the more and more they couldn't get the box, every time one of them was about to get the box, the box slid towards the other.
Curiosity is a magical thing that inspires evil in human nature. When desire reaches its peak, here's what happens: one of them starts pushing the other off the plank...
Push once, there will be a second time... In this way, he repeatedly pushes his kind, there are fewer competitors, the box is close at hand, and victory is in sight.
After reading this, I think you, the smart one, already have the answer in your heart.
What happens when he pushes everyone off?
He and the box were on opposite ends of the plank, and he could only watch from a distance, that's about it.
Because once he moved, the balance would be broken and both he and the box would be in danger of falling.
And he wants to make sure that he doesn't fall, and he can't move just a single move. The box is on the other end of the plank, so close at hand, yet so far away.
Is this what he wants?
When he caught the box, when their eyes lit up, when they started to fight for the box, when he started to push people down... but the evil thoughts just quietly and quietly became stronger.
Evil thoughts made his double quotient drop, and evil thoughts made him reckless.
This ending made everyone ponder.
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