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POSSIBLE SPOILERS - he had to pick a number from 1-3


If he refused to pick, or picked the wrong number out of the three, it would result in eternal damnation. He picked #2. Initially he thought it was the right number, but he was really in purgatory, and things went really wrong. The smug, wiseguy teenager told him to pick #2 at the wedding (when there wasn't a choice of 3 things). He picked #2 when the time came because of what the wiseguy told him. I wouldn't have listened to what the wiseguy said. I would have picked #1 or #3. But what's really eating me is which number would have been the correct one to pick, #1, or #3? On my way out of work every day, there are three exit doors, so I always think of this. I didn't think to post about here till today.

Is it #1, #2, or #3? Well, you know #2 was the wrong one.

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I don't know. I didn't understand what difference most of the actions of the husband and wife made. The only thing that mattered in the end was that the wife pushed the button, and she had to pay the price. All the weird sci-fi stuff that happened to the husband in particular didn't really seem to impact on the plot. But I'm pretty sure there are a lot of subtle elements here that I must have missed.

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