I don't know where I heard it from, "An important feature that distinguishes human beings from other creatures is the group construction based on imagination." For example, primitive humans can construct a forest with fairies in the north and fairies in the south. There is a group myth of ghosts in the deep sea. As a result, human beings have evolved over time into various imaginary communities including nations, countries, and cultures.
The main content of this film is the price that people are willing to pay to maintain their imagination and the various conflicts caused by it.
Before the experiment began, everyone, for whatever reason, supported the idea of the prison experiment. However, what happened later reflects the various reactions of various people to the imagination of this small group that violated the imagination of the public.
The male protagonist is the absolute defender of the public imagination. He supports justice, tolerance, fraternity, and freedom. Even if there is a fall in the middle, he eventually becomes a defender. The old black prison guard is the absolute defender of the imagination of the minority. He is religious, kind, and honest, but after enjoying power, in order to maintain the imagination, he even pays the price of murder. And most of them are just intermediates between the two of them.
What is even more frightening is that there are not many such things in reality. The Nazis in Germany were elected by the people, and the Japanese invasion of China was a national militarism. Slavery and human sacrifice were still popular in the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and extreme terrorism is rampant in the present era. There is no shortage of "prisons" and "prison guards" in any era.
The only good thing is that we can still do something.
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