Sunday 9 June 2013

Day 160: Room 8


A new prisoner is brought into a cell in a Russian prison where he finds a man and a box. The man isn’t all too friendly but the box offers him a chance to escape.

At only just over 6 minutes long and with maybe less than 100 words spoken, it managed to be instantly fascinating. Inside the box is a smaller version of the room the two men are now in but it’s not just a replica, the smaller versions of them are real and do exactly what they do. The new prisoner is, of course, amazed. But very quickly he realises that if he opens the box then he can jump out and escape the prison. When he does, however, the man in the room traps the now smaller version of the prisoner in a matchbox and throws him in a drawer with lots of other people trapped in matchboxes. Clearly this has been done numerous times and it all seems to end the same; the prisoner tries to escape and is captured. The man seems almost disappointed that it has happened again, like he wanted the prisoner to react differently. Presumably the prisoners involved were imprisoned because they had broken the law, but all of them want to escape rather than face their punishment. Even if someone knows they’ve done wrong, if they’re given an opportunity to avoid punishment, would they take it?

Very interesting. I’d recommend watching it, you can find it on youtube.

8/10

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