The Box

The movie The Box came out I think sometime last year starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden. So many people said how horrible and slow the movie was and how James Marsden completely ruined his one actual serious role. I saw this movie completely different. Ok yes the acting on his part was not GREAT but the movie over all sent a very powerful but also disturbing message. The movie was pretty unrealistic but the main plot was that this man went house to house with this box. He would meet the people in the house and tell them they would get a million dollars if they pressed the button that was inside this box he was carrying around. Well, there was a catch, if they pressed it, yes, they would recieve the million dollars, BUT someone they had never met or knew would die the moment the button was pressed,.
The whole movie was based on them trying to figure out if they were going to push it or not..when in the end they finally did. They pushed the button and someone else who they did not know was killed. This movie raised a question. The man who was taking the box around, his goal was to see how much humans valued life. How much they thought a persons life was worth..even if they did not know them. This made me think, how much to i value my own life, or the lives of others? Would I give up someone elses life just so I could have the million dollars, something that will eventually run out? How much do i really care about those around me? Would I kill someone to get a million dollars or something that I really wanted? Was it worth it? This movie just made me realize how much i cared about myself instead of looking around me and caring about other people. We have got to wake up and start caring about more than just ourselves. "Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.  Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. " Phil. 2:3-4