They each changed their clothes. Prisoners wear a uniform one piece linen skirt + no underwear, equipped with their own numbers. Prison guards wear police uniforms and a pair of glasses, and implement a three-person shift system. As the prison director, Professor Phil has repeatedly emphasized that the prison guards should guard the order of the prison.
On the first day, the prison guards asked the prisoners to report their number. In the prison, no one had a name, and they were matched by the number. At first, each prisoner didn't take it seriously and did not obey the command very much. There is a very radical prison guard who probably wants to maintain order in the prison at this time. He started punishing the prisoners, making them jump, squat, and repeatedly torture them. Prisoners at this time were probably just doing their best for $15 a day.
Among them, 8612 has a strong personality. He started arguing that the prison guards have no right to do this, let everyone do things they don't like, and violated his human rights. As a result, he was locked up. Then, he got out of the confinement and started to flee, but he didn't escape, was caught back, and locked up again. He began to pretend that he was not feeling well and wanted to go out. The warden saw him and ignored his pleas. He went back to the confinement room. During this period, the prison guards had become selfish, or the prisoners felt violated and rose up to resist. As a result, they were suppressed. The prison guards began to torture people again. They were not allowed to wear clothes. Give me a bucket of urine...8612 couldn't stand it anymore, he said he would not let him out, he would self-harm, and then 8612 was let out. And 8612 is quite handsome.
But the professor told everyone that 8612 went to other places. Some people believe you may complain, but facts and science are not at all different. Among them, 819 and 8612 are very good. Before 8612 goes out, tell him that he will come to rescue him when he goes out. As a result, 8612 never came, and 819 began to collapse, in a trance, and began to suspect that it was true and that he was a sinner.
On the fifth day, I felt that all the prisoners were submissive, and the prison guards were still looking for trouble, and they liked to torture people. The warden did a mock parole, and everyone was weird, and they just wanted to be released regardless of salary. At this time, the professor as the warden felt sorry for his experiment. After all, he planned to do it for 2 weeks and refused to agree. A male graduate student below him told the professor that we have become part of the prison, and perhaps we have achieved the desired result. He suggested stopping.
Then, the professor and his student and girlfriend also said, you are torturing these children. During the argument, the professor also said my prison. The friend's daughter was speechless, and she hoped that the professor would stop. They started arguing and the professor casually said my prison. Girlfriend is speechless and says you are crazy. You've gotten too deep into the character.
Then the girlfriend left. The professor continued to watch him monitor. At this time, the person who came in in place of 8612 was detained by the prison guards because he did not eat sausages. He said there were no human rights here and a breach of contract.
The prison guards began to torture 2093, who had always had a good attitude, but because he did not speak swear words, he was tortured by the prison guards and forced him to speak swear words. They even had them perform same-sex confessions and simulated animal sex.
The professor looked at such a picture, covered his face with his hands, took a deep breath... and decided to stop the experiment.
The experiment was carried out for only six days. That's it.
Professor Phil later wrote the book, The Lucifer Effect: How Good Guys Became Bad Guys, discussing what turned a group of law-abiding college students into vulgar-speaking, rude-behaving prison guards? Why would another group of college students be willing to Obedience? How much difference does a suit and identity make?
At the end of the film, the person playing the prison guard said so. I don't think I'm bad, I keep increasing the punishment, I just want to see where your bottom line is. And then you never resisted. I'm really not bad.
This movie is thought provoking. Rights are human nature. When you have the power, become a prison guard, and manage individuals with various characteristics that are disobedient, how do you show your authority without losing mercy? When you are stripped and put on the same clothes as others, how do you protect you? characteristics without challenging authority?
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