Ms. Lesley once shared a passage - "Part of the reason we are unhappy is because we are not sincere enough. It is not easy to dare to love and hate. It takes courage to hug you across the crowd and to tear your face despite everything. "She and I both agree with the first half of the sentence, and the second half of the sentence is probably not understood, and we do not have too much empathy.
Whether a person is happy or not can be detected. The middle-aged man played by Oscar-winner Forest Whitaker in the American film Death Experiment (2010) is unhappy, even though he looks shy, has a simple smile and is a faithful believer. However, he was single for a long time and lived with his mother all the time. He was lonely in his heart. He tolerated his mother's abuse everywhere, and when he saw strangers, he pretended to be outgoing and talked.
He didn't live his life honestly enough, and he was always repressed.
Without this experiment, he would always be like this, not revealing his truest or most desired state of mind.
The head of the prison guard played by Forest Whitaker
A group of ordinary people with different living environments and personalities saw a recruitment news in the newspaper at the same time to participate in an experiment. In the experiment, participants were randomly divided into two groups. One group played the role of prison guards and the other group played prisoners. They lived together in a prison and simulated two weeks of prison life. In the experiment, the prison guards need to maintain the rules and order of the prison, and have the right to exercise a certain degree of "discipline" on the prisoners, and the prisoners must obey the prison guards. During the process, if any one person can't persevere, the experiment will fail, and everyone will be busy without a penny; if everyone perseveres, they will get huge bonuses.
The termination of the experiment is subject to the red light. So as long as the red light is not on, everything has to go on.
The head of the prison guard played by Forest Whitaker in the experiment "possesses" the highest power. This is probably a deliberate arrangement by the movie. He came into contact with himself who had been hidden for many years and found the source of "happiness". - Full control of power. Yes, he has no power in life, his mother can scold him at will, and he is alone and has few friends.
The head of the prison guard played by Forest Whitaker
At the beginning of the experiment, neither the prison guards nor the prisoners entered their identities. However, a basketball accidentally hit the prison guard, breaking the original calm. Although the prisoners insisted that it was just an accident, the head of the prison guard wanted to establish his authority as a prison guard, and he punished all the prisoners for doing push-ups.
The sweetness of "happiness" was tasted, and the head of the prison guard was satisfied. However, how can people's desire for "happiness" stop at the first time?
The second conflict came quickly. Prisoner 77, played by another Oscar-winning actor, Adrien Brody, led the revolt, flipping a plate and humiliating a guard when the guard asked the prisoner to eat his unbearable lunch. In the face of this massive resistance, the head of the prison guard did not realize that this was just an experiment, but clearly realized that "Prisoner 77" was a stumbling block that prevented him from exercising his power.
As a result, the prison guards shaved the head of "Prisoner No. 77" and even insulted him with urine. The most terrifying thing is that the red light that should have been on is still dark, and the experiment continues.
The power and pleasure of power, and the indifference and acquiescence of authority (red lights) have become the guarantee for the intensified efforts of prison guards. The life of the prisoner was at stake.
In the repression and resistance, the prisoner died, "Prisoner 77" awakened in the dark, led the "prisoners" to take revenge against the "prison guard", the prison fell into a state of out of control, the red light finally turned on, everyone gathered Beyond the mock prison. At the moment when the light illuminated, the originally frantic fight ended immediately, as if awakened from a dream. Under the sun, the prison guard's head was covered with scars, blood was flowing, but his expression was at a loss. The power he had "dissipated" in an instant, and he became an unhappy middle-aged man again.
dead prisoner
I always feel that the scariest thing about this movie is not that he was originally a good person and turned into such a bad person. Angels and Satan were originally separated by a wall, nor that he repeatedly suppressed prisoners with the acquiescence of "authority" by the worst means. , but he was actually unaware of his unhappiness from beginning to end.
He's a reality grinder. In the mock prison, he enjoyed the power of the head of the prison guard. At that time, he was happy. He did things he had never done and dared not do, and a perverted smile often appeared on the corners of his mouth, but this experiment ended too much. Suddenly, before he could feel his emotions, he was pulled back to reality. Of course, even if the experiment doesn't end, he may never notice it.
On the return car, he glanced at "Prisoner No. 77" and turned around again, thinking that he might continue to accept his mother's abuse and continue to get used to the loneliness of his life. He didn't know whether he was happy or not, he was used to the wooden state of life.
We're unhappy, partly because we're not sincere, and partly because some people don't know what happiness is or whether they're happy.
After "getting out of prison"
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