"Death Experiment" is a movie based on a real psychological experiment. The experimental designer took the subjects to a mock prison, made them randomly play the roles of "prisoners" and "prison guards", and promised them that the experiment would be safe, and they only needed to spend two weeks in the mock prison, and during the Following the pre-set code of conduct for their respective roles can be rewarded handsomely.
The subjects quickly entered the play. As soon as the "prisoners" entered the role, they called themselves and each other by the numbers on their clothes, while the "prison guards" once put on uniforms and held batons, seemed to have obtained a kind of power. In the beginning, the "prisoners" used tricks and verbal jokes to offend the "prisoners", and gradually they began to spread this power into the "prisoners" eating rules, forcing the "prisoners" to finish eating they didn't want to. s things. When the "prisoner" showed resistance, the "prisoner" showed a sadistic pathological personality. Considering that they are not allowed to harm the "prisoner", they try to humiliate the "prisoner" within the bounds of the rules.
It is hard to imagine the great influence of the environment on people. Two people who were originally friendly, after belonging to different power classes, will quickly become hostile parties.
The feeling of having power is like an excess of dopamine, which puts the person in power in a state of high, almost insane, and it can weaken people's empathy and morality, especially those who have been humiliated by power and believe in this order of power. , once in power, he inflicts this humiliation on others.
When the "prison guard" and the "prisoner" had an accidental friction for the first time in the film, the "prison guard" distorted the facts and interpreted it as a provocation. The "prisoners" were therefore required to do push-ups as punishment, which made them feel a sense of disrespectful humiliation. However, the party in power has the absolute right to interpret what happened. Once a certain "prisoner" begins to compromise and submit to the "prison guard", other "prisoners" will have to choose to conform under the pressure of the environment. But instead of earning respect and peace, their submission would lead to a deeper level of contempt from the "prison guards." Interestingly, after the "prisoners" gave in, in order not to cause cognitive dissonance, they had to comfort themselves that doing push-ups was not so humiliating, but beneficial to physical fitness.
When "prison guards" found that their actions had no cost and no consequences, they abused their power even more recklessly. After a "prisoner" in the film gained a sense of power, his sexual desire increased and he attempted to sodomize another "prisoner"; Self-esteem, a kind of mental rape; they also violently forced the male protagonist to say "I am a prisoner", psychologically destroying his personal will.
This is actually because power is an imaginary product, it does not actually exist. However, when a person or group is conceptually empowered, he unconsciously wants to obtain the manifestation of this power in the real world. That is to say, those in power gain this false sense of power through their control over others, and these violent acts are a means of turning power into reality. (To focus, in the experimental world, those in power gain a sense of power through sex and violence, and in a patriarchal society, men also gain a sense of power through sex and violence. )
However, precisely because power does not exist, what those in power fear most is to be questioned and challenged, and these questions and challenges force them to face the fact that "power is illusory". In order to maintain their sense of power, they speak eloquently in an attempt to make the lower ranks accept fate and rules. But once they encounter resistance, they will release the evil in human nature, even at the expense of others' lives.
The male protagonist once said before the experiment that when justice cannot be achieved, the victim should be patient, so that society can progress. But after experiencing the violence in the experiment, he realized that these so-called predecessors' philosophies were bullshit.
They should resist!
This world does not advocate violence to solve problems, not because it is more civilized than primitive society, but because those in power don't want to tell you that whoever masters violence masters power (think about why Grandpa Mao said that the barrel of a gun comes out of the barrel regime). They want you to be decent and reasonable, but only the weak will be reasonable, the strong do not need it, they use violence, and they use violence all the time as a potential tool that can be used in emergencies to make the inferiors submit.
However, when the "prisoners" united and violently resisted, the former "prison guards" realized the illusion of power and fled.
The horror is that this real experiment was only carried out for six days, and was forced to terminate in the alienation of human nature and crazy violence. As soon as the subjects left this simulated environment, and there was no power distinction between people, they immediately realized their absurdity, and everything seemed to return to the original time.
What's even scarier is that when the "prison guards" first entered the game, they called the "prisoners" girls, ladies, and bitches. Yes, for the subjects, it was just an experiment, a game, but for women, the situation in the game was their real world.
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Women have never been told that there is a direct link between physique and status, and that violence is a solid backstop for power. They only tell women to stay white and thin and not to confront men violently, but I always believe that every woman should train her own muscles and skills. It is for them to try to experience the power of their own body, the physical power will further strengthen her psychological power, and the convergence of the two powers will form a subtle aura, which will save her from most of her life. Offend and violate. As the male protagonist in the film said, "At least we can resist", but what about women? Do they have the ability to resist?
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