Movie content review:
The film is based on the 1971 American "Stanford Prison Experiment" and adapted from Mario Jordanou's novel "Black Box".
The film begins with some scenes of natural selection, including predation and struggle between animals, insects, and humans.
Feeling: The strong eats the weak and the survival of the fittest is an objective and real environment for the survival and development of organisms. From ancient times to the present, the pyramid under natural selection will always exist. Although modern human society uses laws and morals to restrict behavior, most of these constraints are on ordinary people. It is just the rules established by the rulers at the upper level of the pyramid in order to maintain the stability of the social ecology, produce resources with higher efficiency, and also obtain greater benefits for themselves, that is, "eat meat". And human eating meat, not only includes the most basic material survival materials, but also includes spiritual satisfaction.
Travis, the protagonist, was fired, and the boss told him this: You're always talking about traveling the world, but you're always here, take it (fired) as an opportunity to fulfill your wish.
Then the protagonist participates in a demonstration with the theme Bring them home! (It is guessed that the partisan struggle in the US government led to large layoffs.) I met a girl here and had a relationship. The girl was going to live in India, and the protagonist was unemployed and had no money to be with her. Then the protagonist saw a story in the newspaper. The recruitment information: project recruitment, behavioral experiment, lasts for two weeks, no relevant experience is required, security is guaranteed, one thousand dollars a day.
Then the protagonist went to apply for the job and met Michael Barris (the leader of the prison guard behind), who was wearing a suit and attached great importance to this application.
The experiment initiator, Dr., began to explain this behavioral experiment, which needs to be observed and evaluated under the condition that everyone is imprisoned, and everyone must be tested.
Some questions about testing:
Whether there is a history of imprisonment, violence, religious beliefs, what is the basis for moral decisions, talk about one's own experience, how to view the right and wrong of all things, etc.
Among them, the protagonist said that the moral decision lies in his heart.
Barris participated in the Boy Scouts when he was a child, was on the varsity team in high school, and participated in various religious groups. He has always been very religious. When asked what he thinks of all things right and wrong, he said: If I believe in God, then I have to believe it, right? Decadent appearance), living with his mother, 42 years old this year, single.
Then they were taken to the back room, put on an electroencephalogram, and watched some shocking video footage to see if they could withstand the pressure.
A group of people were taken to prison, and the doctor explained the rules of this experiment:
(Again , safety is the number one priority , if there is a hint of violence, the experiment will be aborted)
Divide this group of people into two waves, a small number of people play prison guards, and most people play prisoners
Prisoner's rules:
1. Prisoners must eat three meals a day, and no leftovers are allowed
2. 30 minutes of entertainment every day
3. Prisoners can only stay in a given area
4. Prisoners are not allowed to speak without being questioned
5. Prisoners are not allowed to touch the guards under any circumstances
Violators must be punished accordingly ! If anyone leaves without permission, the experiment will end. If the prisoner violates the rules, you have 30 minutes to take appropriate disciplinary action. If you fail to do so, the red light will turn on and the experiment will be over. There is no reward !
Day01
No one entered the role, and the atmosphere was relatively active. During the entertainment, a prison guard was injured by a prisoner with a basketball ( accident ). Afterwards, the prison guards held a meeting to discuss whether to take measures . Otherwise, the red light would turn on after 30 minutes, and finally decided to take a small Punishment - push-ups
Barris didn't get into the role at first, acting cowardly and embarrassing the prisoner.
After taking this punishment, the prison guards found that the red light did not come on after 30 minutes, and they all smiled, proving that they were right.
Day02
When eating, there is one dish that is very difficult to eat . It is the same as shit ( the party making the rules, that is, the conflict point deliberately designed by the doctor ), but according to the rules, it must be eaten, but the prisoners are unwilling to eat it, and there is a big conflict led by the protagonist . The food was smashed.
The prison guards held a meeting to find a way, but since they could not enforce violence against the prisoners (the rules of the prison guards), Barris spoke up, saying that he had been in a fraternity before and was destroyed by all kinds of humiliation. He also did not use violence, you can refer to them This is Barris gaining the right to speak and becoming the leader of the prison guard. At the same time, his perverted thoughts are awakened and he completely assumes the role of the prison guard . (Personal guess is the mental trauma caused by being humiliated when I was young, and now I have to inflict this pain on others to achieve satisfaction)
Then at night, while the prisoner is sleeping, use a fire extinguisher to wake up, and tie the offender leader, the protagonist, with handcuffs to achieve the purpose of punishment and humiliation.
Afterwards, Barris went to the toilet and smiled in front of the mirror. His little brother also had an erection, which showed that he had found his majesty as a man. It also reflected his cowardly and suppressed pain for so many years. Once released, he turned into a demon!
Day03
Another point of conflict occurred in the morning . The protagonist's roommate No. 51 said that he had low blood sugar (actually diabetes, lack of insulin) and could not get up and might die. At this time, the protagonist strongly asked the prison guard to let him rest and give him candy, and there was a conflict!
The prison guards held a meeting and decided to teach the protagonist a lesson, tied up, shaved his hair, and urinated on the protagonist's face. (After Barris assumed the role, the perverted authority began to manifest)
After the meeting, a kind prison guard Bosch expressed his disapproval of this practice, and he will quit next time.
Day04
There are two points of conflict. One is that a prison guard is sexually motivated, and he first asks a younger prisoner to give him oral sex. The second is that the protagonist asks Bosch to help him with insulin to save his roommate (it turns out that the protagonist is confessed), and Barris drags the protagonist out for another round of humiliation, soaking his face in toilet water, forcing him to admit that he is a prisoner.
Bosch was brutally beaten by other prison guards.
Day05
After Bosch was beaten, he was taken to the prisoners in the morning. Barris announced that Bosch would be stripped of his role as a prison guard and changed to a prisoner. At this time, the protagonist silently took off his clothes, and then all the prisoners followed and took off their clothes, and began a full-scale confrontation! The protagonist said to the camera that he wanted to quit, but nothing happened, and Barris was very panicked, for fear that the experiment would end, not getting the money was one aspect, not being able to continue to play the role of prison guard and continue to exert prostitution might be his biggest worry.
The prison guards fought fiercely, and in the process, Prisoner 51, the protagonist's diabetic roommate, was hit in the head by Barris and fell to the ground to his death. The guards then detained the prisoners in separate places, with no communication allowed. (One is that the prisoners did not organize an effective resistance, and the other is that the prison guards had weapons in their hands) The protagonist was locked in a large sealed iron pipe and struggled.
After the violent conflict, the prison guards held a meeting, and another prison guard was dissatisfied with Barris's practice and raised objections, but Barris did not care
At this time, Barris also let go of music, looking intoxicated. The guard said you were crazy.
Day06
Barris waited until 30 minutes after the confrontation to find that the red light was not on, and smiled.
At this time, the young prisoner was being violated, and the protagonist finally struggled to get out of the pipe, rescued the young prisoner, knocked out the prison guard, then got the key, rescued all the prisoners, took up the weapon, rushed into the guard room, Beaten up. Barris is still immersed in the role of prison guard , trying to organize other prison guards to resist, but the number of prison guards is small, and he feels that it is impossible to win, and they run for their lives.
After being beaten, the red light came on, the gate opened, and the Doctor sent a car to pick them up. They were paid $14,000 in the car.
End of story:
The experiment was exposed by the news, and the doctor was arrested. (Dead, the prisoners probably also reported the doctor)
The protagonist goes to India to meet his girlfriend.
Core Analysis:
The essence of the experiment is to let a group of people with fixed roles (three religions and nine streams of society) play specific roles (prisoners and prison guards) in a specific environment (prison), and formulate rules to impose certain strong constraints on the two roles (violating the rules will result in the highest penalty (loss of pay), and observe how this group of people survives and changes over a two-week period.
Highlights:
1. Doctor: Rule maker , behind-the-scenes chess player, game setter
2. Rules: The purpose of people coming here, that is, the interests , is used as punishment, which produces strong binding force. The rules are also quite conflicting, which can easily lead to conflicts between the two roles.
3. Roles: Prisoners and prison guards, the roles themselves are conflicting and antagonistic, and then through the guidance of rules , it may lead to interesting changes on people, which is what the doctoral experiment wants to see.
4. Conflict points: First of all, this group of subjects has three kinds of teachings, which can be regarded as a microcosm of society. People with different thoughts, behaviors, and identities get together, and there will be various conflicts ! Coupled with the imposition of opposing roles and the design of the environment (for example, the meals are made shitty, but the rules make the prisoners have to finish them), this group of people can be led to conflict in a very short time, so as to observe everyone in the conflict. exhibited behavior.
After analyzing these points, we found that it is very similar to the society we live in !
First, the ruling class of a society (such as ZF) makes rules , which include mandatory such as law , non-mandatory such as morality , and various handed down social constraints .
Each of us is more or less active and passive in various roles (such as father, son, student, boss, etc.), and needs to survive under these rules, which can lead to punishments imposed on us by higher-level roles ( guards punish prisoners), why do they do it? One is that if you don’t do this, the red light will turn on (everyone loses their fundamental interests ). Punishment can eliminate unstable factors, so that there will be no problems in obtaining benefits; the second is that high-level roles punish low-level roles in addition to obtaining explicit and implicit material benefits. In addition, you can also get spiritual satisfaction (such as Barris).
Secondly, people are under the imposition of passive roles ( often for profit , such as participating in the experiment for money in the movie as a prison guard), and each role must abide by the rules, so even if you are not originally this role, but continue to play, your After all, the character and thinking will change subtly, and it is impossible to extricate oneself into the role. This is like the people and things that happen around us. The so-called buttocks that are often talked about determine the head . The ass is the role you play . Whether it is voluntary or involuntary, active or passive, your head will gradually become an ass. look .
It’s been almost three years since I graduated. Recently, I have been thinking about what kind of person I want to become. Your previous views on things, your kind and honest character, and how to deal with yourself in the torrent of society is to stick to your own thoughts and behaviors. , Or integrate into the society and become the so-called hated self? Will the one you hated at the beginning become the one you love in the future? It is easy to change but the old people's hearts, but the old people's hearts are easy to change, the human heart is really the most difficult thing to understand and control in this world.
When I switched careers, I was most proud of being free. I didn’t like this job. I just wanted to change jobs. The happiest thing is to follow my own heart. But people's hearts are fickle, and when there is a conflict between the will and survival and interests at the moment, how to choose? To survive in society, conflict is the norm. The so-called “remaining true to the original aspiration” is the only way to remain true. What is the original aspiration? Is the original intention really the right heart? Can your original intention guide your behavior for a lifetime to live well?
There are too many problems, too many helplessness, we can't know the result of each choice, and even our own mind will become blurred and difficult to choose. I think the original intention is just the idea you had in that specific environment at the beginning, and with the change of the environment, the idea will definitely change . Whether this change is good or bad can only be evaluated by your future self, and we don’t need to be too entangled sometimes. Your own changes, no matter how you change, you are still you . All we can do is to constantly look inside ourselves, don't let the characters drive us and become a madman like Barris.
Written on April 27, 2019
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