Film Night

A group of friends decide to have a quiet night in on a Friday for once. They've all spent most of their money this month and so staying in to watch a DVD seems like the most practical and enjoyable way to spend evening whilst they wait for pay day on Tuesday. Whilst they all enjoy going out carousing, talking about girls/boys, eating pizza however, they find it quite difficult to decide upon which DVD to watch.

4 of them would quite like to watch the version of Hard Candy. Two of them have seen it before and love it. The other two have yet to see it but quite like the idea of paedophile entrapment, as the film has been described to them. They're fairly easy going when it comes to films though, these two, and would probably watch anything.

2 of the party would quite like to watch The Shawshank Redemption. One has seen Hard Candy before and hated it. The other has not seen either of these two films, but really doesn't like the sound of paedophile entrapment.

1 of the party is a bit avant-garde and would like to watch Un Chien Andalou. They're just a bit avant-garde and really like the idea of avant-garde eyeball slicing. Failing that though, they'd be quite up for The Shawshank Redemption on account of it being the highest rated film on imdb.com.

1 of the party would like to watch The Wrestler due to its critical acclaim. They really like critically acclaimed films, so they wouldn't mind The Shawshank Redemption either.

1 of the party would really love to watch The Great Escape. Epic tales of defeating incarceration are really their bag. Shawshank would go down pretty well.

They group of friends decided to cast their votes. As you can see, Hard Candy was the winning film, amassing 4 votes. This meant that there were 5 fairly disappointed people who had no interest in watching this film, who would all have been up for The Shawshank Redemption, plus another 2 who would have been happy with it.

If only they had decided on a different way of choosing a film to watch. Then they wouldn't have been exposed to Hard Candy on what would have otherwise been a lovely, quiet night in.