The film is also based on the above experiment, but the words and images leave a completely different feeling. About that book, it brought me more rational thinking; but this film made me instinctively want to resist. By the time the experiment was on day 5 in the film, I really wanted a Christina like in the book to end it all.
The moment I saw the cowardly and well-dressed black Boris getting an erection in the men's room, I was horrified that he was going to be the devil. Sure enough, he lived up to this long-lost male self-esteem. In the next 5 days, this Big Brother led several other prison guards to do things that they may never dare to do in their entire lives. From a humiliating shave until a life is gone. If it wasn't for Travis (Prisoner No. 77) who grabbed the knife stabbed by Big Brother at a critical moment, what he received might not have been a check for $14,000, but an admission ticket to the real prison.
I have to talk about Travis in this film. When he pulled out the knife inserted into his left hand with his right hand and rushed towards the fallen Boris angrily, would he stab him into the other's body? I'm not worried at all. Although the man in the police uniform on the opposite side once arbitrarily shaved his hair, once urinated on his head, once pressed him into a toilet full of sewage and nearly suffocated to death, once pierced his left hand with a sharp knife... However, Travis is a man with a real bottom line. He swung a fist that he had never fought before, hitting Big Brother in the face again and again, hitting back at all the humiliation he had given him, with a look of anger in his eyes that he had never had before.
On the return bus, Travis and Boris' eyes met. Travis hesitated to avoid his gaze. I think he's feeling confused right now? For 6 days, he put him under unprecedented pressure and humiliation, when Boris ordered his accomplices to stuff Travis's head down the toilet over and over again just to hear the "I am a prisoner" begging for mercy. At that time, when Travis hid alone in the corner of the cell, uncontrollably wrapped his body with his collar and collapsed his cheeks, could he still remember the goodwill scene when the two met? Six days ago, while waiting to enter the door of the experiment, Boris said sincerely to Travis: I think we have a special fate.
What makes the trust fade and the hideous become prominent? What makes kindness disappear and hatred surfaced? Is it because of identity alone that one is an Officer and the other is a Prisoner? In a way, the answer is that. Our human nature itself contains justice and sin, nobility and wretchedness, bravery and cowardice... All of this waits for the button of the situation to activate. If in this process, a key link - control is lost, what will the result be? , really unpredictable.
In the face of injustice, let it go, or bravely Say no, how do you judge? Travis pointed to his heart. There is no doubt that Travis is a hero throughout the film. While the other prisoners remained silent, he insisted on protecting the diabetic "illustrator", Flying Man (Prisoner No. 82), at a harrowing price. But it is such a hero who did not show too much enthusiasm when he took the initiative to show his love to Boris for the first time. "I think it's because we are all short of money" - for the "fate" identified by Boris , he responded. This reminds me of the "good mediocre people" that Professor Zimbardo said. They don't boast, exaggerate, or have excessive enthusiasm. They can be inconspicuous in the crowd, because when "goodness" has dissolved into the blood, naturally, there is no need to Deliberately speaking, doing, and acting. On the way back, inmate No.17, who shared the same cell with Travis, leaned over from the back seat and asked Travis, "Do you still think we are better than monkeys?" After a brief silence, Travis Weiss didn't look back: "Yes, at least we have the ability to change."
I couldn't help thinking that on Platform 9 and 3/4, Harry's son Albus Severus asked his father worriedly, "What if the Sorting Hat puts me in Slytherin?" Harry crouched down. Go, looking his son in the eyes: "You have two headmasters in your name. One of them is Slytherin, and he's probably the bravest man I've ever met. Of course, if you prefer Gryffindor , then the Sorting Hat will also consider your choice."
Yes, at least we can make a choice.
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