FILM: Moral Questions in Thrillers

I love when thrillers have some life or death situation that brings up ethical questions. Check out the plots of these two:

In the thriller Run for Her Life, a district attorney (Dermot Mulroney), whose daughter needs lung transplants, goes to extremes to procure a donor after learning that she's low on the official U.S. waiting list. He crosses the border into Mexico in order to buy his way onto their list. The catch is that these Mexican donors are involuntary. He must choose between saving his daughter or saving hundreds of children who are being killed for their organs.

Richard Kelly (Southland Tales) has also written a perplexing thriller called The Box, starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden. They will play a married couple who are presented with the opportunity to save their ill child by a stranger with an even stranger box. If they press a button, the box will bestow upon them $1 million. But it will also cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world. The real catch is that they only get to have the box for 24 hours, so they have to decide quickly. Check out this short film on youtube. It has pretty much the same theme and the guy with the choice has a good question: What if the person who dies is the person who pushes the button?

Both movies are an insight into the human soul and a pinnacle point for the characters who must decide whether they are capable of murder--involuntary or not.