Sunrise story
Five college students exploring an Aztec site struggle to decide who they must sacrifice after knocking over a jug filled with blood and enacting a curse that causes the sun to go out. Directed by: Tim Matheson. Story by: Katrina Cabrera Ortega, Frederick Rappaport.
14 total · 4 choice · 6 major · 4 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| choosing who dies and who lives | choice | Five college students deliberated whom of them should be sacrificed to countermand an ancient Aztec curse. |
| sacrificing a friend to save one's self | choice | Five college students deliberated whom of them should be sacrificed to countermand an ancient Aztec curse. |
| the good of the many vs. the needs of the few | choice | Were the four college students justified in sacrificing a fifth among them to save their own skins, and perhaps the world? |
| what if the fate of the world was in my hands | choice | Five college students came to think that it was up to them to make the sun reappear in the sky before the Earth froze solid. |
| Ancient Aztec mythology | major | Five college students succeeded in enacting an Aztec curse that caused the sun to go out, or it seemed. |
| catastrophic solar event | major | An Aztec curse seemingly blotted out the sun and humanity was hours from an icy doom. |
| facing death | major | Five college students faced the grim prospect that one among them would have to be sacrificed to countermand an Aztec curse. The young woman who drew the short stick was doomed to be sacrificed. |
| hexes and curses | major | Five college students accidentally unleashed an ancient Aztec curse that blotted out the sun, it seemed. |
| human sacrifice | major | To countermand the Aztec curse and bring back the sun, the students had to sacrifice a human. |
| supernatural existential risk to civilization | major | An Aztec curse seemingly blotted out the sun and humanity was hours from an icy doom. |