Our dear ones, no amount of money can replace their lives. This is an unquestionable fact. In order to protect them, we are even willing to sacrifice our lives. But what if it’s someone we don’t know? Do we really think that their lives are also priceless? And when we have to choose between the two favorites, who do we choose to survive? Is it your child? Or your partner?
Life is priceless? Bullshit! Of course life has a price!
Life has a price, and this price depends on the closeness of the relationship. The life of a stranger is not worth a million, but the life of the one you love the most is more valuable than your own life. However, sadly, strangers are also loved ones of other people. When we forget this and mark a price for a stranger, we must have forgotten that we are also a stranger to other people, and they will also mark us a price. We can easily accept the fact that a stranger's life is not worth a million, but have we accepted the fact that our life is also not worth a million?
"A Million Killing Experiment" tells us in a tortuous way that we must cherish the lives of other people, just as we cherish our own lives. Life must be equally priceless no matter how close or distant it is. The core content of this movie is very simple, but in order to make the story plausible, the screenwriter and director added a lot of magical and strange events, alluding to a god-like existence or a higher-level alien creature. Implement a humanity test on humans to determine whether humans have the value of continuing to exist. In order to expand the length of the film and tell the story, this movie adds many branches to the main axis of the story, but in fact, such branches make the audience feel more confused and procrastinated. Therefore, our right should be God's final trial before the flood and Noah boarding the ark.
The background of the story took place in 1976, when a couple received a package with a button box in it. Then a mysterious man came to visit and explained that if they press the button within 24 hours, they will receive a reward of one million dollars, but the price is that someone they don't know will die at this moment. The wife of the couple is a middle school teacher, the husband is an engineer from NASA, and the only son is still in elementary school. At first, the two couples thought this was a scam or a whole-person game, but the one hundred dollar bill left to them by the mysterious man seemed to indicate that it was unlikely that anyone would give so much money to cheat or joke. Moreover, on the same day, both husbands and wives suffered some setbacks in their work, and the originally inadequate life would be even more difficult. As a result, the two couples began to seriously consider whether to press this button. After arguing, the wife pressed the button resolutely. After all, both of them were inclined to do so, but they had never dared to make a decision. However, when the mysterious man came to the door again, gave a million dollars and recovered the button box, the husband regretted it. After seeing the ugly and weird face of the mysterious man, the husband felt a panic of fear, and vaguely felt that things might change in a bad direction. The mysterious man said indifferently, it was too late, the button had been pressed, and then he drove away.
Soon, strange people and strange things appeared in the lives of the two couples. It turned out that the mysterious man possessed special powers and was able to control people's minds, so he placed many people around the two couples to monitor their every move. But this kind of mental control is not complete, especially for people other than the elderly. Therefore, younger people occasionally experience nosebleeds and wake up from a controlled state, and these people try to help the two couples when they are awake, so that they can escape the predicament. So the two couples approached the truth step by step with fear in their hearts. The truth is that the mysterious man was originally an engineer of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. When NASA launched a rocket to detect Mars, a bolt of lightning struck the mysterious man, but the man soon came alive from death, and then he had The magical power is not old nor dead. According to the mysterious man, he is just an employee. As for who hired him to carry out the button box experiment, he refused to disclose. Based on the convenience of carrying out the experiment, the mysterious man started by controlling the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Security Agency, and then carried out experiments outside in the name of these units.
Through telephone contact with the mysterious man, the wives of the two couples were told that the button box experiment on them was not over yet, and they had to wait until the next subject was selected and the next experiment started before their part was finished. At the same time, the previous subject found the husband of the two couples and told him that in this experiment, the subjects selected were all young couples who were under 40 years old and raised a child. The former subject also told the husband that he was forced to kill his wife in the final stage of the experiment to save his daughter. The time when the previous subject shot his wife was the moment the couple pressed the button. Despite knowing the follow-up development of the experiment, the husband learned that his son had been kidnapped before he could find his wife and son. When the two couples returned home, the mysterious man came to the door again and told them that their son had fallen into an invisible and inaudible situation. They faced two choices. One was to live with this million dollars. The son lives in a state of blindness and deafness. The other is that the husband shoots and kills the wife who pressed the button, so that the son can return to normal, and the one million dollars will be deposited into the trust account until their son is full. It can be used at the age of eighteen. Of course, wife suicide is not an option.
For the husband, this is a difficult choice, but for the wife, it is very clear what to do. As a mother, she couldn't bear to let her son live like this for a lifetime. After all, she had also experienced a physically handicapped life, the kind of inner pain that she couldn't let her son bear anyway. What's more, today I will come to this point. It is because of greed and carelessness of other people's lives by parents, how can they impose punishment on their sons? So, in tears and requests, the husband shot his wife in the heart. At the same time, an unfamiliar couple was pressing the button in front of them. The husband was subsequently arrested by the police, and the rescued son stood alone by the upstairs window, silently watching the end of the ruined house.
Life is priceless? When we hear that a homeless person freezes to death on the street, and when we hear that a famous singer committed suicide by falling from a building, the degree of sadness is different after all. When you walk into an insurance company and want to buy a life insurance for yourself, you will be told that your insured amount has an upper limit, and the amount of this upper limit is related to your income and social status. Everyone says that human beings are born free and equal, but deep down in their hearts, how many people truly believe this is the truth? Although your children are precious, are they as precious as the children of high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen? Of course you think it is equally precious, but of course high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen don't think so. Perhaps this is why we often hear that BMW killed people, but seldom heard that Chery QQ killed people. Can you afford it? ?
Life is priceless? must be! Whether you are a senior official or a farmer, don't forget that you are just a stranger in the eyes of others. If you cannot cherish the lives of other strangers, other strangers will not cherish your life. In a society full of humanity and morality, people see that other people's lives are threatened and will do their best to help. Therefore, when their lives are threatened, some people will try their best to help. But in a society full of indifference and ruthlessness, when you turn your head in front of the victims, sooner or later you will find that when your loved ones suffer, you will only get a cold glimpse.
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