I just thought the premise was stupid in general. I know people in large groups are not always the smartest, but even ordinary people are capable of basic math. You have a group of over 530 people put together. Their captors walk among them with machine guns, backs to the prisoners. Only one can win the game. That means you have only a 1/535 chance of survival.
What is the incentive to play the game at all? Most should realize that they have almost no chance of survival. Their best chance would be to work together to get the machine guns from the guards walking among them in a tightly packed space, try to time things to wedge the doors, and attempt to riot and escape. You have better odds of survival doing that than playing the game.
It doesn't seem to really dawn on the characters. Yes there are probably some who attempt to fight the guards, but you know in cinema land it's just a few who are quickly put down.
However, I don't buy that. Everyone in that room has to realize they have next to 0% chance of survival if they play the game. The whole premise of the show is that no one can do math (not even the stock broker character) and figure out this basic odds.
Why play a game where you have a 0.01% of survival when your odds of escaping if everyone riots and becomes uncontrollable dramatically increases? Also if no one plays the rich people's game would be spoiled. They'd have to do something. Are they going to kill or torture you just because you won't play? They were going to do that anyway.
I just thought the premise was stupid in general. I know people in large groups are not always the smartest, but even ordinary people are capable of basic math. You have a group of over 530 people put together. Their captors walk among them with machine guns, backs to the prisoners. Only one can win the game. That means you have only a 1/535 chance of survival.
What is the incentive to play the game at all? Most should realize that they have almost no chance of survival. Their best chance would be to work together to get the machine guns from the guards walking among them in a tightly packed space, try to time things to wedge the doors, and attempt to riot and escape. You have better odds of survival doing that than playing the game.
It doesn't seem to really dawn on the characters. Yes there are probably some who attempt to fight the guards, but you know in cinema land it's just a few who are quickly put down.
However, I don't buy that. Everyone in that room has to realize they have next to 0% chance of survival if they play the game. The whole premise of the show is that no one can do math (not even the stock broker character) and figure out this basic odds.
Why play a game where you have a 0.01% of survival when your odds of escaping if everyone riots and becomes uncontrollable dramatically increases? Also if no one plays the rich people's game would be spoiled. They'd have to do something. Are they going to kill or torture you just because you won't play? They were going to do that anyway.
Kind of like a metaphor for what’s going on right now.