The Death Experiment was adapted from the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted at Stanford University in 1971. The story is about a group of ordinary people participating in an experiment in a mock prison. The experiment required them to be randomly divided into two groups, one was a prison guard and the rest were prisoners.
Throughout the experiment, prisoners had to obey prison guards, who had the right to impose a certain degree of "discipline" on prisoners. If any one person can't persevere during the experiment, it means that the experiment has failed, and everyone is busy. If everyone perseveres, there will be huge bonuses. We are all uninvited guests in this strange land, coming together for the common purpose of money. Even if you don't know anything about the experiment. At first, it was for money, but later it seemed that some people were no longer for money, but to show their authority, to feel arrogant and domineering, and to wear police uniforms.
In order to maintain their own power, because power is the best aphrodisiac in this world! It's addicting and crazy! At the beginning of the experiment, the prisoners who were punished for doing push-ups because of mistakes made Barris have an illusion that the group of prisoners were obedient like dogs, and that he was the owner of the dog, which also paved the way for his subsequent behavior. From the push-ups at the beginning, to handcuffing Travis, shaving his head, and a series of intensified behaviors are all designed to make the prisoners feel intimidated. At the same time to defend their power. Even if the final murder, even if it is manslaughter. Travis tried to terminate the experiment several times in front of the camera, apparently breaking the rules. But why is there no red light and no one to stop it? Obviously stopped how can you still see the madness of human nature? How can you still see where the ending will go?
But why is the red light still on at the end of the film, and why is it still stopped. Obviously, if it is not stopped and the door is not opened, there will definitely be more casualties. The purpose of the experiment has been achieved, hasn't it?
Towards the end of the film, Barris is facing an absolute disadvantage in numbers, and in the face of a group of prisoners who are burning with rage and ready to take crazy revenge, Barris even thinks that they are prisoners, they will be afraid of us, and he is The master of this turf, this is what shocked me the most. What was it that made him feel this way? Or do most people feel that way in that environment? ! Do we really know ourselves? It doesn't seem likely
French writer Gustave Le Pen once wrote in his book "The Crowd": The isolated individual knows very well that when he is alone he cannot burn palaces or loot shops, and even if tempted to do so, he can easily Resist this temptation. But when he is part of a group, he realizes the power that numbers give him, and it is enough to make him want to kill and rob, and he immediately succumbs to the temptation.
And in this film, I think it could be changed to this: The common man is well aware that he cannot exercise discretion over prisoners when he is not a policeman, and even when tempted to do so, he can easily resist the temptation to do so. But when he has a special status symbol, he realizes the power that status gives him, which is enough to make him want to be disciplined and immediately succumb to the temptation.
But then again, isn't it normal to treat prisoners with discretion? If prisoners are not afraid of guards, should guards be afraid of prisoners? If prisoners and prison guards are only equal, it is not conducive to prison control, right?
It's just that under certain circumstances, we can become another person, and circumstances make us become another person, a person we don't know ourselves, and we don't even know it! This is the horror of human nature!
In the end, everyone got the check as they wished, but didn't everyone foul? Why am I still getting a check? In the event of any violent incident, the experiment will be terminated immediately. Violence is happening all the time, but the red light doesn't come on until the end isn't it?
Maybe it just wants to see how crazy human nature can be? What would happen if the prisoners and guards switched roles? I don't think it's worse but not better either.
For thousands of years, human nature has remained human nature. Those crazy things: power, money, seemingly unchanged for thousands of years...
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