The Box (2009) Hey what's up guys.
Today I'll show you a Science-fiction-Psychological Film: "The Box"！
Spoilers ahead, watch out and take care! One early morning, a woman named Norma and
her husband, Arthur, wakes up to the sound of a doorbell. Norma goes to check who's at the door,
only to see a package by the door and a black car driving away. Norma is confused about
what happened, and wonders what's in the box. Arthur also gets curious, and decides to open
it up at breakfast. the son helps his dad open up the package to find a wooden box with a big
red button. There is also a message from a man named Mr. Stewart. The message tells them that
he'll come by later in the afternoon. As the family finishes their breakfast,
the son goes to school, while Norma and Arthur go to their work. At Norma's school where her son
also studies, she gives a lecture to the students. One of the students, Feetish, notices that Norma
seems to be limping. Feetish then exposes that Norma has a disability on her foot, which causes
her students to be shocked. After that, the bell suddenly rings, as Feetish walks out and looks
at an embarrassed Norma with a creepy smile. Meanwhile, Arthur arrives at his job at the NASA
Headquarters. He arrives during an interview about the upcoming Mars expedition to find an ancient
civilization. Suddenly, a reporter asks a question about why the National Security Agency or NSA is
involved in the expedition. This makes other reporters follow her lead on a scoop. However,
their questions are left unanswered, and Arthur continues to his workstation. Back
at Norma's school, the headmaster tells Norma that her son's tuition discount
will be canceled for unknown reasons. She's shocked by the news and prepares to leave,
only to notice that the headmaster is suddenly bleeding, as he apologizes for the bad news.
Later on, Norma tells her problems to a co-worker, worrying over their financial
situation now that the discount has been canceled. She also worries about how to tell this bad news
to Arthur. At NASA, Arthur is talking to his co-workers, while making a prosthetic for his
wife's foot. He tells them how she lost her toes due to an accident, and how the doctor neglected
her treatment making the damage permanent. After finishing his story, he excitedly receives
a letter about his application for a slot on the Mars expedition. Unfortunately,
the letter brings bad news, as Arthur didn't pass the application examinations. He talks
to his superiors about this news. However, they can't do anything about it, since he failed the
psychological evaluation. Arthur then insists he aced the exams; but bad luck keeps on coming after
him. At their house, as bad luck continuously keeps on coming for the family, Mr. Stewart,
the man who gave the message from the package earlier, visits the house with a solution.
Norma invites him to come inside the house, but is shocked at his half-burnt face as he offers her a
deal. The deal will also be kept secret between the couple. The deal states that they'll receive
a key. The key opens the box's lock from earlier. There, they'll be given two options, to press the
button in exchange for one million dollars at the cost of someone's life they don't know, or to let
Mr. Stewart retrieve the box unpressed tomorrow. After stating his deal, Mr. Stewart hands her
100 dollars for hearing him out. Norma finds the deal suspicious, and asks who his employers are.
However, Mr. Stewart isn't allowed to tell her about it. After the conversation, Mr. Stewart
leaves and lets Norma think over the deal. As Arthur gets home, Norma informs him about
the deal Mr. Stewart made. He also finds it suspicious and sketchy, since they're now in a
conveniently desperate situation. At first, they decide to hide the box till tomorrow,
so that Mr. Stewart can take it back. Meanwhile, somewhere at NASA headquarter, a rocket engineer
gets a call from his wife, telling him that their daughter was kidnapped. While this is happening,
someone suspicious is watching the rocket engineer as he rushes back home.
Back at Arthur's residence, the time is near for Mr. Stewart to take back the suitcase. Norma gets
second thoughts about losing one million dollars. At last, she snaps and presses the button,
justifying that it's just a box. Just then, news of the rocket engineer's wife dead at their house,
alerted the police to the crime scene. This just means that Mr. Stewart was probably not lying
about the box. the rocket engineer seems to have run away with a briefcase while holding a gun.
The police then assume that it was a homicide, and make the rocket engineer a suspect. As the police
search the house, they find the couple's daughter locked inside the bathroom.
Shortly after the rocket engineer's homicide, Mr. Stewart arrives, and gives Norma and Arthur their
one million dollars, and tells them someone they don't know has died. The guilt reaches
both of them, and they try to return the money. However, Mr. Stewart tells them it's too late,
as he takes the box to give the same deal to a different couple. Mr. Stewart warns them to keep
the deal secret even after their deal is done. As he drives off, the couple is left speechless.
Meanwhile, the police station discovers the connection of the rocket engineer to
NASA headquarter, and starts investigating the facility and its staff. At the couple's residence,
the guilt of the couple slowly fades, as they use the money to fix Norma's limp. After that,
they celebrate at a rehearsal dinner, where they enjoy themselves with their friends and
relatives. But things start to get weird, as Norma and Arthur spot Feetish, who oddly
makes a peace sign to them. Shortly after, Arthur gets called to receive a gift from the club host,
only to find Mr. Stewart's picture haunting him and Norma as they open the gift. Outside the
venue, a figure watches the event from afar. After a while, Norma gets a call from Mr. Stewart,
who tells her that her husband is starting to break the secrecy of their deal, since he's been
investigating Mr. Stewart's car license plate. He tells Norma that trouble is soon to follow,
as they've been breaking the deal's secrecy. Norma apologizes and tries to make it up to him;
but Mr. Stewart tells her that her conscience will help her at the right time. Since the
couple gets paranoid after Mr. Stewart's warning, Norma and Arthur get sensitive.
Arthur confronts Feetish after discovering that he embarrassed his wife in class. Feetish apologizes,
and says that he doesn't want the misfortune on them. However, as soon as Feetish apologizes for
the bad luck the couple received, his nose starts bleeding. After causing a scene, the couple heads
home, until their car suddenly shows a warning that there's no exiting the punishment. Just then,
the valet does a peace sign as well, which confuses the couple as they leave.
At the couple's residence, the son shows the babysitter the articles his dad has of the
planet Mars found in the basement. like his dad, He believes that unknown technology is
similar to magic. Little did the son know, the babysitter knows the truth behind their bad luck,
since she's an aware employee of Stewart's plans for them. As the couple arrives home, Arthur
offers to take the babysitter to her home. On the road, they talk about Mars and the civilizations
that exist there. She adds that the civilization they're looking for is closer than they think;
and those civilizations are keeping an eye on the human race, testing them. the babysitter mentions
that Arthur looks guilty about what he has done when he pushed the button. This triggers Arthur,
and he realizes she knows about the box. the babysitter then tells him to look for clues in
his basement, to find a solution to their problem with Stewart. However, she goes unconscious,
as she tries to reveal anything more. Arthur checks up on her, as they arrive at
her place. He then finds out that the babysitter's identity is fake,
and her real name is revealed to be Sarah. Suddenly, Sarah wakes up and gets a nosebleed,
the same way the others have been experiencing before. Before leaving the car, she manages to
tell him that he should look at the picture he got at the event, and to find the article in
his basement that leads to his solution. As Sarah walks back to her home, people inside
the motel look at her strangely, as if they're cameras, eyeing her every movement. As Sarah
arrives in her room, it reveals that she has been assigned to watch the Arthur family by her
employer, Mr. Stewart. This means that her identity as the babysitter, truly is fake,
and is made to spy on the family. Later on, Arthur and Norma discover that
people they've talked to in the past who have been getting nosebleeds, are all connected to
Mr. Stewart. They are his employees, who've been watching their moves since the beginning. As
they go back to sleep, Arthur remembers Sarah's words from their conversation, and recalls his
basement article on NASA. He recalls that Mr. Stewart was a part of NASA in the past.
Arthur heads to their local library, to dig up records on Mr. Stewart. Stewart is aware of this,
and warns Norma about her husband's actions. Norma then demands to see Mr. Stewart in person;
but Mr. Stewart tells her that he is already in front of her. Suddenly, a stranger by her window
looks at Norma, confirming that Mr. Stewart is not ordinary, and that his employees make him see
what they see. Also, it shows that revealing any information about Mr. Stewart's actions behind the
curtains, will make them faint or nosebleed. Norma tries to shake off the paranormal event in
her mind. She takes a grocery trip with her mother. However, she's suddenly approached by
an employee of Mr. Stewart, who pities her and reveals information about him found in
the library. Soon after, the employee faints after revealing information. Norma heads to the library,
where Arthur currently is as well. There they both find out that Stewart was
once a NASA employee, that died after getting struck by lightning. However, instead of dying,
he came back as something else. After discovering this, Mr. Stewart's employees start leading Arthur
and Norma to different locations, separating them. Norma is led to Mr. Stewart, who reveals
that he's employed by higher beings, testing on humans to determine their worth on earth.
Meanwhile, Arthur is led to a place with three altars. Mr. Stewart's wife then guides Arthur
to choose one altar that will lead to their family's salvation, but one to his death.
Suddenly, water pours out from the altar, and Arthur gets amazed by this technology,
realizing that Mr. Stewart must've come in contact with the Alien civilization.
After that, Mr. Stewart holds Norma's hand, which makes her go into a trance back to her
home in bed. On the other hand, Arthur chooses an altar, and suddenly gets teleported to Norma's
side. The son is shocked as the teleporter makes him fall, and soaks the house with water. After
they meet with Stewart, the couple takes time to process the information at a wedding dinner.
Meanwhile, the NSA is revealed to know the true existence of Mr. Stewart and his employers
all along, and that they've been allowing Stewart to test on families working for NASA,
with the box test. Mr. Stewart then reveals to NASA that the tests with the box are to
determine whether humanity should be preserved or not. He hints that to pass the test,
one must ignore their desires to protect the greater good of their species, the humans,
so they shouldn't press the button. After revealing that, Mr. Stewart makes his
move. He kidnaps Norma's son at the wedding dinner, while Norma witnesses it. Meanwhile,
Arthur encounters the rocket engineer, who tells him about a way to kill Mr. Stewart. However,
that plan is useless, as Arthur's son is taken hostage. The couple is then called to
their house by Mr. Stewart. He informs them that their son is deaf and blind permanently, unless
they take their last chance at the test. They're given two options. Arthur kills Norma,
and their son goes back to normal, with a high-interest account for one million dollars. Or,
take the one million and accept their son in his disabled state. Norma offers to kill herself;
but Mr. Stewart doesn't accept it just like that. Arthur threatens to kill Mr. Stewart; but he'll
only lose everything if he does. They then realize that their dilemma represents purgatory now,
where they decide whether to atone for their mistakes by sacrificing one of the sinners,
or ignore their mistake and let someone innocent suffer in their place.
Norma accepts her death to save their son. while they listen to their son cry for help,
Arthur prepares the gun to shoot his wife in the heart. The scene shifts to another family's home.
A couple is presented with the same deal with the box Arthur and Norma had first. The couple
eagerly presses the button. At that exact moment, Arthur kills his wife. As he cries over her death,
his son goes back to normal. While on the other hand, Mr. Stewart continues the box test to test
couples with a single kid, in the same way the Arthur family experienced.
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