I could have gotten out.

wexler274, i think you missed the point of halkings' comment

the idea of a "message board" on a site like this is to discuss movies. if you have never watched a movie and then questioned what you saw then i think you are missing out on a lot.

back to the discussion at hand, wexler274 actually has a point that some of the cameras were inaccessible. but, if they had just destroyed all the cameras in the hallways they could probably have avoided the others.

as for starting a big fire in the place, i question how effective that would be. it seemed to be mostly stone floors and plaster walls, so there wouldn't be a lot to burn. and they might have died from smoke inhalation.

regardless, i agree that they didn't give escaping nearly enough of a go. for one thing, when they were using the table as a battering ram it would have been a lot more effective if they had turned it on its side. it's a shame they didn't have a physicist in the house.

oh, and bricks aren't indestructible.

Wow, what is like to be as brilliant as you.

One question, with the walls seeming to be over 30 feet high in the main room, can you also grace us with your knowledege of how they could "sweep" those too...

If only there were fimmakers with your intelegence all films would be perfect...

I'm going to paste what I wrote above as it applies here

This film has a very heavy "What would you do?" type of plot. These people are in an interesting theoretical situation and it's normal to sympathise with them and try to figure it out. It's fun to put yourself in there shoes.

You're right. Perhaps Big Brother's intervention could be prevented through some play acting on the participants part. First they would need to figure out some way to communicate outside of Big Brother's eyes and ears. Perhaps the fire I suggested would create a suitable dead spot without it being obvious that this is the intention.

Actually with that in mind, here's a totally different plan of attack. Fake 8 deaths. Get a plan together in which everybody fakes their death. If the quality of BB's video feed is the grainy stuff we saw in the film, this might not be all that hard. The hard part would be planning it, hence the camera and mic free spot created by the fire. It might seem difficult, almost impossible to fake the 8 deaths but with your life on the line don't you think you could muster the ability?

Interesting. I thought up of another way. Pretending to get killed. With loud music on, whisper plans of staging eight murders. The cameras weren't good enough to see the difference if somebody would drop down and get covered by one of the black curtains. Then, when the door opens, you all rush to freedom. At least, that's assuming there is no next room. :P

I'm assuming that the people writing here have just seen the movie, right? If not, ------SPOILER ALERT-------!!!!!!!

As we saw at the end, these weren't the only set of people involved in this game. We are left to assume that the 1/2 dozen or so other people holding briefcases all came from a similar situation. That is, they were probably stuck in a big mansion with 8 other people as well. If you consider the enormity of this situation, you'd soon realize that attempting to escape is pretty pointless.

Consider these points:

1. If they are in a compound of multiple mansions, then the monumental task of working through a thick wall would have to be repeated over and over again until you get to the actual outer wall.

2. If the mastermind behind this had the means to build multiple mansions, then he would certainly also have the means to make the outer wall incredibly thick.

3. I think there might not have been an air circulation system. Remember, the point is for these people to all die in there, not sustain life. They continued to complain about it getting hotter and hotter. The mastermind could have just started them out with some oxygen, then sealed it tight.

4. The other people with briefcases all seemed to be clutching them tight. The fact that they had gotten there first and had time to peek inside, alludes to the fact that there probably really was money inside. This just further illustrates just how plentiful were the resources of the mastermind.


Regardless, if they were going to die anyway, I feel that every spare moment should have been spent digging a hole through somewhere. They could have started destroying cameras and microphones in a single room. Then they could have "acted" like they were giving up. This way they would have their secret area to work on an escape, while still spending time in the rest of the house to make it look like they're not even trying.

Exactly. I think someone would be suspicious of 5 mansions in a field built facing each other where they connect at a central hub structure, with bricks piled up outside the windows.

This thing was most likely an underground compound built out of steel and surrounded with concrete.

If you were a character in the movie, you might follow the OP's thinking and attempted to escape, but as a poster having seen the movie, and the ending, you should understand that escape was probably not very likely due to the enormity of this overall structure containing 5 mansions.