10 Movies That Forced You To Answer Impossible Questions

1. Sophie's Choice - Which Child Would You Save?

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The true pinnacle of the impossible question, Sophie's Choice is one that is famed throughout the world of film for being the most brutal decision a parent would ever be faced with. Sophie and her two children have been sent to Auschwitz under Nazi rule, and her efforts to convince a nearby officer to take mercy on her result in a turn for the worst.

The title then reveals itself to be centred around one sadistic question: which child will Sophie save from death, and which will she send into the labour camp?

Forced to pick lest both children be sent to die, Sophie hastily lets her baby daughter be taken away and saves her son, in what we can only assume is an effort to preserve a child that has the most likelihood of surviving under the Nazi regime. Watching her sob as the weight of her choice comes crashing down is one of the most heartbreaking moments in cinema, and instantly conjures up uneasy thoughts about how the audience would handle the same situation.

It's a bleak realisation of exactly what World War 2 was, and the sick realities faced everyday.

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