system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[Time Bandits] Why did the parents touch the evil at the end after the kid specifically told them not to?
gpt
Their banality is their evil.  Their obsession with mindless consumerism  has blinded them to what is happening to their son.

A child is just an appendage to them, a necessary evil to be accepted in their monotonous, conformist pigeonhole.

It doesn't occur to them that he could know anything of value, even less plausible that he could warn them about something dangerous.

They are animals in a zoo.  Something new comes into their cage and of course they touch it.  They are the monkeys in 2001, with less brains and even less future.

Also Sean Connery made them do it.