This prison trial selected top students from Stanford to become prison guards and prisoners according to the method of flipping a coin, and began a two-week "trial". To be honest, the film did not explain the purpose of the trial from beginning to end (just say Want to remove personality, feminization?), preliminary research, design parameters, variable settings mentioned by colleagues, and expected results. From the viewer’s point of view, it seems to be experimenting for the sake of observation. This unclear original intention, before we can figure it out, was shocked by simple and rude code names, confinement, and corporal punishment. The curiosity of perception transformed into Disgust and fear, the fear here is not the fear of the movie itself, but the fear of the treatment the prisoners will receive next.
Sure enough, beatings, not letting sleep, 100% obedience, and ultimately the use of various dirty words and extreme insults of various actions, some people began to collapse, some tried to resist, but most people chose to obey, and their eyes changed. It has to be blind, the action becomes a machine, and even the parole rights that could have been fought for are dispensable. The "experiment" at this time is called "out of control" in the script, but in fact it is called "I don't know why". The direction of human nature has begun to change. Most of the prison guards enjoy it, while the prisoners are forced by all kinds of hardships. Even when the number of prisoners is dominant, the prisoners start Believe in yourself is a cause for sin. What went wrong? It's just a random coin toss, but why it feels that the selection of people is just right? Unfortunately, there is no chance to tell the guards and prisoners to erase their memories, exchange positions, and see if they still match like this. But I believe there is not much difference.
This is not the case in society. When you are outside the collective of vested interests, all kinds of grievances, all kinds of gossip, all kinds of low tide and irony; but when you are a vested interest, you also lament the injustice of public opinion, and that of non-interested people. Rude and unreasonable, and self-inflicted, so self-knowledge. This "experiment" is actually a bit wasteful. The distortion of human nature is due to the influence of the external environment. Whoever is born with knowledge of etiquette, justice and shame, can't even estimate his urine and bowels, who has the ability to consider this; whoever is born to like to take arrogance and grabbing is not acquired. Insufficiency is a last resort.
Going a step further, we must face whether we must survive in society. Some people would think of Marxism-Leninist communism. Everyone is equal, but success has never been seen. It is the capitalism’s interests that come first. A brief appearance of prosperity. What should we do? Maybe the scope of society is too big. When small areas are no longer united, and they are independent, can they find some balance, but a small prison does not mean that the human nature is no longer pure.
what to do? Of course, the "experiment" itself cannot tell us, and the reality has not taught us that in today's society, who has not been troubled and troubled, all the problems of money and non-money are, in the final analysis, the diversity of the development of human nature. And this kind of diversity, obviously there are many parameters, and the variables are even more numerous, and there will never be an absolute result.
Therefore, there is only one way, and that is a strong inner heart. When your inner heart is not affected by the external environment, then the parameter is zero and the variable is zero, you can predict the result, but is this the best way? . Obviously not to me. Isn't half of the joy of life lie in the uncertainty of the future? This leads to another topic, dare to bear the uncertainty, so it is still a balance. Be willing to endure various endings while exercising a strong heart.
Of course, I did not "test" to verify whether I can not be distorted. After all, to achieve the so-called inner strength, there is still too much to practice to endure the ending.
Maybe one day, we will film a "Madu Survival Test" and verify it. Not here...
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