The Black Button: Would You Kill a Stranger for $10 Million if You Couldn’t Get Caught?

A confused man given a dubious task with monumental monetary rewards by an evil genius overlord. Anyone else immediately think of daily meetings in the White House?

isn’t that the plot of an old twilight zone episode? a woman is offered cash if she presses a button and kills a human being – someone “she doesn’t know”, and in the end she presses it and as the guy leaves she asks him what will happen now and he says he will give the button to someone else… someone “she doesnt know” dah dah dummmm. lol

Point of useless trivia: what looks to be a case of money is actually a case designed to keep tools in, probably picked up at your local hardware store. I own three exactly like it myself

But yes, if the situation was a serious one and not set up like the one in the video I would sure push it. Roughly three people die every second around the world, what’s the difference if it turns into four people for one second?

That was my favorite Twilight Zone episode.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Button%2C_Button_(The_Twilight_Zone)

Ha, lux beat me to it!

Twilight Zone’s Button, Button Episode:

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlEZ7N37KNw
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q6Q49VdFRE

What if you bump into the button on the way out the door after saying “no thanks”?

Haha…At first I was hesitant because I couldn’t really kill somebody the dirty way. When I realized all there was to do was press a button, yes, go for it!

I definitely wouldn’t be able to press the button. Hell, I have trouble killing bugs.. and if I do by accident.. I feel bad about it lol.
I couldn’t even imagine what it would be like to know that I killed another human being. Even if that person was vile and evil and deserved to die, I would still feel weird knowing that they died by my hands… ya know?

I would probably do it. Also, the acting in that Twilight Zone episode is really awful.

id kill the guy offering the money and just take it so i could get the key and then push the button on my way out anyway

It’s hardly plagiarism; similar premise but it’s totally different (and considerably better, IMHO) than the lame Twilight Zone ep. The writing’s more solid, the guy behind the desk is amazing, the religious undertones are a nice touch, the white room, it all works a lot better. It’s an old idea anyway, this is just the best incarnation I’ve seen of it. Great vid from some talented guys!

No, I wouldn’t hesitate to turn down the offer, so it would be a very short film indeed if I was the protagonist.
I have less respect for an anonymous killer than a public one, and I think that those who would press the button are probably jaded about the worth of a human life because their own lives are so miserable.

The film was awesome. It made life difficult through a simple example, in this case a simple decision. Well, perhaps it wasn’t that simple…but I really enjoyed the plot. It was awesome.