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Hailee 2022-11-03 00:16:09
Watch this first before watching The Wave, Death Experiment. This one is the most realistic documentary, without too much modification. It restores the whole story and narrates the matter itself. The background of the time, the dialogue between the two sides after the experiment, and the development of the matter are slowly coming. Comparing these three films, the two death experiments are more like answers to the Stanford experiment. The more revealed information is what the director would do if he became the protagonist of the death experiment. The American version directly chose heroism. This version is about the real world, events that will happen around you, there are no fancy lights and basketball rings, the experiment is a small broken house in a school building, there are a few nerds behind the monitor, should you stop it, should Should they be punished, should they be harsher, should they really treat themselves as code-named prisoners and prison guards, the original intention was to experiment, and in the end everyone entered the role and turned into a perfect excuse to commit atrocities with their original intentions. Didn't notice either. After the experiment, everyone returned to normal life, and the dialogue between the violent prison guards and the prisoners at that time was quite real. When the prison guard talked about that time, he also wondered why no one resisted, and his words became more and more bad but no one stopped him. It should be said that some people resisted at that time, but they were suppressed by the professor. After that, no one resisted. Instead, they became more and more numb. and
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The Stanford Prison Experiment quotes
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Jesse Fletcher: You brought me here to legitimize this experiment and there's nothing legitimate about this place, Phil.
Dr. Philip Zimbardo: You're right. You're right. I didn't explain it well. Prisons, they represent a loss of freedom, literally and symbolically.
Jesse Fletcher: Yeah, but that does not explain why they're wearing dresses. They're wearing dresses, Phil.
Dr. Philip Zimbardo: Yes, I understand. Uh, we're trying to strip away their individuality. Make them uniform. Feminize them.
Jesse Fletcher: Feminize them?
Dr. Philip Zimbardo: Yes. Feminize them. Take away all the things that make them them. You see, we're trying to understand how an institution affects an individual's behavior. We're trying to do something... We're trying to do something good.
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Karl Vandy: It's easy for you to say, 'Oh, I wouldn't have acted that way', but you don't know. That's - that's the truth. You don't know. And now I know what I'm capable of, and it hurts.