THE BOX . . . would you press the button ?

At first I really resented what a local channel has done. They dubbed all movies into tagalong (Pilipino dialect) It sounded wrong, & it felt fake. But then, almost a year without cable can change your perspective.

Every day at 3:15pm is movie time. At times they’d show really awesome movies, & most of the time I think it’s movies nobody even bothered to watch LOL . Well, yesterday was a find. It was titled THE BOX, starring a very young & still sexy ( not skinny to the bones)  Cameron Diaz & “Cyclops” - James Marsden . I have seen this guy in a couple of movies but sad to say I don’t remember his name, so I had to look it up just to complete my intro. He’s also the prince charming in the movie “Enchanted”. 

What would you do if somebody gave you a box? This box has a button. You & your spouse will have 24 hours to think on whether you would push the button in that box. Why ? Because once you push that button, somebody you DON’T know will die. In return you will get ONE MILLION DOLLARS in cash. 

Quite a predicament huh? Well the movie really started out interesting, then it went confusing. To tell you honestly until now, I don’t get it. It seems like an alien related movie. I don’t know if it’s because it was dubbed that it didn’t make much sense or it’s the story line itself. But in a nutshell, in the end, even if you got the money, something will screw you up that the spouse who didn’t push the button will have to chose between his wife or his son. In the case of this movie, it was always the wife who pushed the button. You will have to shoot your wife dead so that your son will be miraculously healed from being blind & deaf. The kids are normal happy kids, then they will be abducted & returned to their parents deaf & blind thus causing the choosing. 

All of the husbands chose to shoot the wife for their child. For that they will be imprisoned, & the child left in the care of someone from the “organization” who promises to care good care of them. The one million will be placed in a trust fund which he will be able to receive once he reaches 18. The organization is NSA involved with Human Resource Exploitation. Confused? Well, I am.

My only solution to this enigma is to look for the movie & watch it in English hahaha maybe then I’d really get the story right. It’s a good watch, Why ? Because it will make you wonder, WOULD YOU PRESS THE BUTTON ?