The function is relatively simple: push the red button, earn a million dollars. But there is one slight catch: in exchange for the compensation, an unknown must cease to exist. The moral dilemma is, would you push the button, risking the consequences in exchange for financial gain?
Though I confess, this is one tale I regrettably had only gone through halfway, thanks to a faulty television and reconfigured dimensional randomizer. Thus, I myself never witnessed the end result of what the couple's actions had wrought.
Curiously, however, I ponder how one can successfully transpose a story for the Twilight Zone into a two-hour film? Perhaps The Box may provide more dilemmas than what Mr. Matheson had to offer. For the problem I can only see is similar to the manga Ikigami - The Ultimate Limit, where one is randomly killed by the government at a predetermined date. Whereas one doesn't know whom might be exterminated, and if I know my delightful twists as I normally do, perhaps the unknown might be one of the couple itself.Strange, I can envision my old friend, The Cryptkeeper, maniacally laughing at this prospect. Also, if memory serves, Bender found a unique loophole with The Box when he was offered the same deal (Futurama Comics: 'Let's Twist Again.'): By bashing the box over the robot's head who offered Bender the deal.
Robot (handing the money to Bender): N-nice l-loophole!
Strange... but only oddities have occurred from such things originating from a little dimension we know simply as.. The Twilight Zone...
