I watched a very thought provoking movie last night
called, Return to Paradise. It
involves 3 young American men vacationing in Malaysia. They have a great time
living on the beach, smoking dope, drinking and plenty of women in this beautiful
paradise. But soon it comes time to go back to civilization, New York, and
their lives. They borrow a local’s bicycle for the day to go into town for one
last time. On their way back to the beach that evening, they have an accident
and the bike gets damaged. Two of the guys tell the third guy to just get rid
of the bike. He says he can’t. He borrowed it and has to return it, but one of
the other two guys takes it and throws it into the Jungle. The next morning the
third guy says he’s not going back. He’s going to stay there and work for an Orangutan
rescue center. One of the other two guys gets careless about the dope they had
and leaves it out in the open as they say their goodbyes to the third guy.
Two years later, the other two guys have returned to New
York and lost touch. One guy is driving a limo in Manhattan. The other guy is
engaged to be married and working a good job. A woman shows up and gives the
limo driver some disturbing news. Their friend back in Malaysia was arrested
over the bike after they left. The police found their drugs and he was charged
with drug trafficking. In Malaysia that is a death sentence. The woman, who
turns out to be the condemned guy’s sister, has worked out a deal with the prosecutor.
If she can convince the other two guys to come back and be arrested, the
condemned man will be spared and the two men will each have to serve 3 years in
prison. If only one of them returns, that one will have to serve 6 years in
prison. The woman has no deal in writing, only a verbal agreement and their friend
is due to hang in only a matter of days.
So here is the question: What would you do and why? I’d
love to hear your reply.
Food for THOUGHT…
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