The original story, a little like WW Jacobs's supernatural tale The Monkey's Paw, resolves its intriguing premise with elegant swiftness. This film, directed by Richard Kelly, is based on the 1970 short story Button, Button by the science-fiction writer Richard Matheson (author of I Am Legend) it later became a Twilight Zone television episode. could it? But what sort of weird Mephistophelean bargain would they be making? What harm could it do to humour this wacko and take his cash? This crazy box with the red button couldn't really kill someone. Oh lordy, what on earth are they going to do? Who is this person? A madman? A government agent? Marsden and Diaz do have financial worries, though, and the man's money is real enough. He politely explains that Cameron and her husband, played by James Marsden, now have 24 hours to think it over. But he cannot push the button himself, it has to be them, and if they inform the police or anyone else, the deal is off.
Langella explains that if she or her husband consents to open the dome and push the button, someone, somewhere in the world will die – someone whom they don't know. This impassive and mysterious man has had a strange package delivered to her home: it is a box with a perspex dome on top containing a red button. In 1976, he arrives at the home of Cameron Diaz, wife of a Nasa employee – and he has something other than sex on his mind. This time it is Frank Langella, playing a man with an appalling wound to the side of his face, dressed in an impeccably suave suit and somewhat jaunty hat. And yet it is a lot of money, so gosh, would I? Would I?īut it is not Robert Redford.
Oh, heavens to Betsy, you are probably thinking, it's that Robert Redford back again, the incorrigible old goat, making another of his indecent proposals: a sackful of cash in exchange for the chance to let his expensive trousers and pants pool round his ankles while he puts you on the receiving end of a one-off rogering. In this one, an ageing man with a horrible face approaches a happily married woman with a proposition that could earn her $1m. T here are some films that confront the viewer with profound ethical dilemmas, agonising moral choices.
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