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That’s the element most accurate to the book in the entire movie.Tarkovsky's interpretation of the Wish Granter was interesting. It didn't grant your wishes, it granted your deepest desires. Therefore if by nature you were greedy and you wanted to wish for a good deed, you'd only end up with endless wealth, because that's what you truly desired.
Red wanting to be as selfless as the man he had just murdered, rather than fixing whatever debilitating genetic degeneration is happening to his own daughter is the twist ending. Red spends the end of the book wishing for peace and prosperity for all man because his personality has been warped to fuel his own deepest wish.