[Movie] 16004 [1.21] "Stanford Prison Experiment"

As an orientalist, my curiosity about the Stanford prison experiment is far greater than the practical and social significance behind the experiment, because under the atmosphere of public opinion in mainland China, I am afraid that no one would dare to conduct an experiment for academic purposes. Although the comments about this experiment repeatedly mention the Lucifer effect made by Professor Zimbardo, the leader of the experiment, I feel that the Lucifer effect is more like a pseudo-academic that academically transforms basic common sense, regardless of behavior. The study is also from the perspective of psychology. I don’t think the Lucifer effect is innovative. It only uses words to specify the inducing effect of the environment on behavior.

In fact, if we are talking about the Lucifer effect, we have to mention realistic arguments. I think the American prisoner abuse incident, the Nanjing Massacre, and even the Cultural Revolution are much more powerful than the Stanford prison experiment. The most critical issue is objectiveness. degree. The film claims to be very faithful in restoring the details of the Stanford Prison experiment. Therefore, we can observe a little bit from the film or the transcripts related to the experiment-Zimbardo himself exerted a destructive influence on the rigor of the experiment:

When the prisoners first uprised, the prison guards were at a loss when it was Zimbardo, and it was not the prison director who told the prison guards to "make good use of power". This is the same as the director who is on the mirror to teach the actors to act. The manager Intentionally inducing prison guards to use violence;

both parties who play prisoners and guards know that there is video surveillance, but when the guards are on the camera and the prisoners are being abused, the administrator has never come forward to stop it. If the prisoner knows that the abuse is permitted, it is a real prison, which is a dereliction of duty.

To sum up, I believe that this experiment is both a failure and a success. The failure is because we have seen more of the results of an experiment deliberately guided by Zimbardo. The success is that the results of the experiment are actually the same as the arguments that Zimbardo wanted to get. Unanimous. In this way, I think the experiment is meaningless. The prison guards will torture the prisoners, not because of the subtle influence of the environment on people, but because of the instigation and very obvious instigation of the warden and Zimbardo. So the argument proves that the Lucifer effect is not reversed, and my final conclusion is that the Stanford prison experiment failed and is meaningless.

A very boring drama. It also proves that there are too many movies that are well-made while also proving the Lucifer effect. It is strange that this drama has 7 points. It is a waste of time and needs to be deleted.

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