The experiment in the movie recruited 20 strong men from all walks of life, 8 played the role of prison guards, and 12 played the role of prisoners. It was originally expected to be two weeks, and the rules were very simple. After the experiment is successful, everyone will be rewarded with 4,000 marks. The experimenters will secretly observe the changes of the subjects through monitoring, and will not intervene unless they have to. At the same time, they also warn the subjects that they will lose their basic civil rights. , the person playing the prisoner gets only a small ration of food, and everything has only one purpose - to make the experiment close to reality.
In fact, from the time the roles were assigned, the role of psychological cues has already begun to show, and the people selected as prison guards can't help but be overjoyed when they look at the various equipment. On the first day of the experiment, everyone was fine, but there was a problem on the second day, because our hero is a reporter who came here to stir up trouble. So the next day he led the inmates to rebel, and the prison guards also found that something was wrong, and immediately resorted to corporal punishment and insults to try to reverse the situation. At the beginning, everyone was for the 4,000 marks. The prison guards hoped that the prisoners would not cause trouble, and the prisoners also hoped to survive the experiment without being oppressed. It's a pity that the protagonist's provocation cannot be resisted, and the relationship between the prison guard and the prisoner has undergone tremendous changes in just 3 days. Later, the matter of the 4,000 marks was no longer a concern. Both guards and inmates seem to deeply identify with their roles and are deeply involved in them. Prison guards began to use increasingly "cruel" means to "suppress" the resistance of the prisoners, while the prisoners began to accept or suffer psychological damage. Prison guards are becoming more and more violent and aggressive based on their various privileges, and experiments are gradually getting out of control. In the end, the prison guard even controlled the experimenter, believing that the experimenter's statement about terminating the experiment was a test of their reflexes, completely forgetting that they were conducting an experiment. The cosplay show won't end until someone pays the price with their lives.
The "Stanford Prison Experiment" in reality was finally forced to stop because of anti-social behavior. People were killed in the movie. Fortunately, it was not so exaggerated in reality, but the problems revealed by the experiment were terrifying. Whether in reality or in movies, it is surprising how deeply people identify with their roles. Whether they are prison guards or prisoners, they have integrated into their roles in just one or two days since the beginning of the experiment, even unconsciously. To strengthen this identification, the behavior of the companion (male protagonist) who does not integrate is extremely repelled. They all volunteered to participate in the experiment, the groups were randomly selected, and the behavior of prison guards and prisoners was very different because of their different roles.
Another problem is the so-called "Lucifer effect", where Lucifer was God's favorite angel but then fell into Satan. The groups were chosen at random, and some of the guards seemed even suave, but in the end they showed a surprising amount of violence. Even the mildest of people can commit atrocities, which is known as the "Lucifer effect." Such a conclusion could explain many unclear questions, such as why so many otherwise polite Germans are fanatical about fascism, the indifference of people in the face of evil, the mishandling of patients by nurses, and suicide attacks. behavior of terrorists and terrorists. What's even more amazing is that the good people who become bad people don't think they are doing evil, instead they justify the means they take with the legitimacy of their ends.
Although this experiment can only provide a partial explanation, the "Lucifer effect" is actually deep in people's hearts. The influence of the environment on social animals like humans is sometimes decisive, and the role of people in society will also affect People's behavior and perception. Although the experiments in movies and reality are over, such "experiments" are actually happening all the time.
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