perversion of human nature

Human nature is ugly, I forgot where I read the sentence: "Absolute power equals absolute corruption." Das Experiment is a German drama, the story tells about an experiment: divide dozens of people into two groups, and one group is a prisoner The other group worked as prison guards; the experiment was not a game, it took place in a prison. When prison guards have absolute power to manage prisoners, when prisoners must abide by the rules of the prison and obey the orders of the prison guards. The subjects of the experiment were recruited by newspaper advertisements, and the purpose of each person was different, but the main purpose was to get a good reward after the experiment. Everyone has different backgrounds, such as taxi drivers, unemployed people, managers, etc. On the first day of the experiment, everyone carried out the experiment with a play mentality. The prisoners became the prison guards as friends, and the prison guards also played with the prisoners.

But starting from the second day, the host of the experiment warned that everything should be carried out as real and not to play, and the problem came out. . . . . . The prison guards treated the prisoners with severe methods, and the prisoners also resisted with various small gestures. The more the prisoner resists the prison guards, the more perverted methods will be used to manage the prisoners. On the 3rd and 4th day, some people could not resist the abuse or all kinds of white terror cloth and asked to leave the experiment.

Under the deepening prejudice between the two sides, the prison guards even used violence that could not have been used! Some of the prisoners could not stand the white terror cloth and had mental problems. Because military representatives among the prisoners came to secretly investigate the experiment and deliberately disobeyed and even provoked the prison guards. As a result, the prison guards even joined forces to kidnap the remaining staff members on the night when the experiment host left the prison due to an incident, and then resorted to various violence. and abusive practices to manage prisoners. By this time, it was no longer as simple as an experiment. Of course, it didn't end well. After a night of confrontation, several people died and many people were injured.

The film is very well done, showing the perversion and ugliness of human nature. Human nature will indeed be deceived by power, and when you have power, you will do all kinds of perverted things. The doctor who conducted this experiment also had a problem. In fact, in the middle of the process, he could see that the participants were deteriorating and took it seriously; but the host did not stop the experiment, and the result was irreversible. In order to achieve the goal, regardless of other people's life or death, isn't it a kind of ugly human nature? The most terrifying thing is that this movie is adapted from a true story!

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