The film is based on a true story.
Zimbardo, a professor at Stanford University, "built a prison" at the university for an experiment and recruited volunteers, all of whom came for $15 a day. The professor and his team selected 24 healthy volunteers to start the experiment.
When the "prison guard" and the "prisoner" put on their respective uniforms, subtle changes began to occur in their hearts, and the "prison guard" who got power entered the role very quickly. They are the gods here, and what they think is right is the right thing. Prisoners rehabilitated".
All the "prisoners" stand in a line, listen to the rules, and must abide by them! Can't be questioned! Absolutely obey! Everyone started reporting their number, no, it's too quiet, louder! Again! Don't look at your number! Again! It's too slow! Again! Is it funny! All are 10 jumps! Full weight! Otherwise, let's report it once by singing! Do it all over again... not bad! fast again! Loud again, what is the number on your right, xxx? Do not you know! Do 10 push-ups, 10 jumping jacks! Is it fun to count today? Who said it wasn't fun! Do you think it is heroic for you to tell the truth! Put me in a small dark room!!!
Think about it in the little black room, everyone wants to sleep too, fold your bed so that everyone can sleep! Is this a good idea? Again!
After such a night, the "prisoner" also began to enter the role, and everyone silently obeyed in the face of the dictatorship.
Prisons are three "prison guards" who take turns on duty. Different "prison guards" have different rules. Everyone has to be careful, otherwise they will all be punished. These practices of "prison guards" are all to establish their own supreme power, and "prison guards" keep saying It's for the "prisoners" to get better.
Each "prisoner" has a different personality and bottom line, some are thorns, some are passive resistance, some are patient and obedient, the three "prison guards" use various tricks and methods to humiliate, corporal punishment, differentiation in order to rule by autocracy The "prisoner", the "prisoner" became more and more submissive, and the experiment became a real prison.
When power is unchecked, good people can turn bad.
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