At the beginning of the experiment, everyone thought it was just a role-playing game. As long as they spent these 14 days, they could easily get a salary of 14,000 dollars. Everyone thought it was not a big deal, and even laughed at each other: "It's the beginning" "Game on". Every experimenter is a good person who has been screened for physical and mental health. They were divided into two groups, with six trial guards and the rest prisoners. At the beginning of the experiment, there was still a friendly and relaxed atmosphere among the 26 experimenters. No one expected that as the experiment progressed, they gradually entered their roles, and the huge changes slowly unfolded...... I believe everyone has an impression of that cowardly and gentle black Barris, who was the first person to get along with the male lead, and looks like a good guy. But the most startling change happened to him. Barris is over 40 and still unmarried, living in embarrassment, and is often abused and insulted by his mother. Such a "loser" in real life eventually became the leader of the prison guard, or a perverted leader. It can be seen in the film that he put on a police uniform and listened carefully to the rules set by the experimental researchers, and then he was immersed in the role of a prison guard and couldn't extricate himself. He tried his best to maintain the order between the prison guard and the prisoners. When No. 77 challenged the authority of the prison guard, he began to insult No. 77 in various extreme ways, trying to make him submit. An impressive scene is that Barris used violence to force No. 77 to recognize his "prisoner" identity. Violence inevitably leads to violence, of course, and in the end the prisoners start a revolution, and the ending is heavy. Seeing this, I got a few inspirations: There is a definition of "role-playing" in sociology textbooks: a person assumes a certain social role and acts according to the behavioral norms required by this role, which is called role-playing. Role-playing has a process: first, to understand role expectations, that is, to understand the rights and obligations of one's own role; second, role identification, accepting the requirements of role norms and willing to travel the role norms phenomenon is role identification, which is a complex The process may have different degrees of identification with the role; third, the specific process of role-playing refers to the role-bearer's performance of the role's behavior in a specific situation. In this film, the process of role-playing is the process of the 26 experimenters' role-reconstruction. They slowly moved away from their original real roles and entered experimental roles. First, at the beginning of the experiment, the staff explained the experimental rules to them, and they once understood their roles, which was the first procedure of role-playing; However, it is obvious that the roles of prison guards and prisoners have different degrees of identity; then, in the specific process of the experiment, role-playing is carried out. Here is an example of prison guards: the prison guards first determine the action orientation according to the requirements of their roles - defending the order of the prison , punish the prisoners when they violate the rules; then further choose action strategies and take specific actions according to the characteristics and specific situations of the interactive objects, the prisoners; and then reflect on their previous actions according to the reactions of the interactive objects, and then take new actions, and so on. The above is the realization process of role refactoring. Moreover, these experimenters will be relatively accepting and accepting of people of the same identity. Tolerance, creating a sense of community. People's emotions and behaviors are influenced by this identity cognition. At the end of the film, Barris and Travis, who returned to reality, looked at each other silently, and he did not expect that he would be so deeply involved in the play. But the complexity of human nature makes the experiment develop in a direction that is out of control. In this prison, the guards have absolute power over the prisoners - that's what the rules say: if a prisoner violates the rules, the guards have discretion. Power is a breeding ground for evil, especially power without supervision and restraint. At this time, the "loser" Barris in real life, Become the owner of power, he tasted the pleasure of power, and then out of control. No one could have imagined that the cowering, submissive-looking good old Barris had become dark, paranoid, and arrogant in just two days. It can be seen that everyone has a desire to control and dominate others in their hearts, and power makes these desires swell like a monster that is free from bondage, and the situation of this mock prison is becoming more and more complicated. During the entire process of watching the film, we cannot ignore the existence of "red lights". In the early stage of the experiment, the prison guards did not forget to pay attention to whether the red light was on. After each punishment, they would laugh and say, "Look, the red light isn't on, we did a good job." Therefore, their methods are more and more cruel each time, as if they are testing "where is the bottom line of the red light, but the red light has not been turned on. The prison guards are more reckless, insulting No. 77, harassing a homosexual experimenter, and even seriously injuring the fat man to death. , but the red light has been silent. In my opinion, the "red light" is a metaphor for supervising and restricting the powerful. The prison guards have the power over the prisoners, and their power is controlled by the "red light". The supervision of the experimental staff. However, this supervision has never been effective, causing the prison guards to constantly break their own bottom lines - including the bottom line of the experiment, the bottom line of the law and the bottom line of morality, and finally the experiment goes out of control. Power is to put A double-edged sword, it can awaken the terrifying beast in the heart, and a comprehensive power supervision system is essential. I think if at the beginning of the experiment, the bottom line that prison guards should not violate - this can be compared to the legal system in the real society construction; and giving prisoners the right to report prison guards - this reflects the democratic construction of the real society; plus "red light" supervision - the external supervision of the real society. Under this relatively perfect power supervision system, I I think the prison order in the movie will be better maintained, and there will be no "prisoner revolution". In the end, good and evil are not absolute, but are stimulated under certain conditions, and the environment reflects the good and evil of human nature. It has a great effect. Thinking of the word "prison", it is easy to conjure up negative words such as violence, repression, humiliation, darkness, hurt, etc. So, those who play prison guards will fall into violence and repression, and those who play prisoners will fall into violence And resistance, and then they are all confined in blood and desire, revealing the ugliest corner of human nature.
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