Everyone is the subject, and every day is in the experiment

Gabe 2022-04-04 09:01:08

After watching the film, I suddenly found the answer to many things in life. Why do you want to get married when you reach a certain age? Why get married and have children? Why work hard? Why listen to the teacher? Why follow the rules? In fact, these are all like the experimenter in the elevator who saw others facing the wall and turned to the past, and the line experimenter who echoed the public and answered the wrong answer. Many people obviously don't want to get married, but why do we just follow the public to choose to get married at a certain age? Especially in China, you have rarely heard such remarks as "I chose to marry him because I love him", and more of it is "Everyone is married, so I will get married"; "This blind date object It feels good, so let's end it ";" The eldest is not too young, it's the age to get married"... Wait, so what is the right age? What is supposed to be married? Why even do men and women marry? And why even get married? By analogy, many big or small things in our life are actually just because we have to obey this social rule. We live in this kind of experiment every day, and each of us is the subject of the experiment, and this is the The obedience in human nature that is discussed in the film, whether it is obedience to the public or authority. After careful consideration, this is not a complicated experiment, but its conclusion is so shocking and terrifying. This is not only limited to psychology, but has reached the realm of philosophy.
But more importantly we can change, change. The data in the experiment is actually that 65% of the people chose to obey, and it did not reach 99%, which shows that this obedience is not the nature brought by completely immutable genes, but that there are still a large number of people who have their own complete independent thinking, as in the last sentence of the film, and I think that sentence is the essence of the whole film: "You can say that we are all puppets, but I think we are puppets with thinking ability and consciousness, Now that we realize that we are in control, then perhaps the ability to think independently is the first step towards freedom.” - Stanley Migram, yes, the ability to think independently is the first step towards self and freedom. So this movie is not a nutritious fast food that only instills chicken soup and no methodology, but a complete set of theory and methodology that can really allow you to understand and put into action at the end. As for whether you will think deeply and put it into practice, it is your own business. It is also your own choice to choose to be a puppet or yourself.
In fact, I quite admire people who can evaluate this film from a professional point of view after watching it, because I am completely attracted by the content of the film, because I am not a psychology student, and I didn’t know anything about this experiment before. The story of the film is the first time I know this experiment and the conclusion, and these shock me far beyond the film itself, what lens, what lighting, what script, what editing, what photography, WHAT! ? ? Who cares in front of such a great experiment??? Shouldn't you think about how you can find your true self without being a marionette, a killing machine, or an agent in real life?
Well, when it comes to movies, I think it's a different way to combine documentary-like biographies with traditional movies in such a subtle and pleasing way. But it itself is a film about the thesis experiment theme + personal biography, you can make it more vivid and you can make it! Why don't you go to heaven!
OK. bye. You of God.

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Experimenter quotes

  • Stanley Milgram: I believe we are puppets with perception, with awareness. Sometimes we can see the strings. And perhaps our awareness is the first step in our liberation.

  • Stanley Milgram: Human nature can be studied but not escaped, especially your own.