The film is based on the famous Stanford experiment, in which 20 applicants from all walks of life are divided into two parts: prisoners and prison guards. For the next two weeks, their movements will be confined to a simulated prison, and all life The work and rest are the same as prisoners or prison guards. The only requirement is that the experimenters cannot use violence, otherwise they will be disqualified from the experiment. Like the development of every thriller story, at first everyone obeyed the rules of the game and were courteous to each other, but gradually, the dominant prison guards and the passive prisoners had class conflicts. It seems that the contradictions between classes It is the source of all contradictions, whether it is games or politics, it cannot be avoided and avoided, and it has become the initiator of all troubles.
"The Lucifer Effect" details the ins and outs of the Stanford experiment, and unlike this biographical book, two unstable elements are arranged in the film - Tarek and Porus. Tarek is a former newspaper reporter. He was selected as a prisoner in this experiment. He decided to write the content of this experiment as a report and sell it, and his task was to stir up trouble as much as possible and add fuel to the report; Ruth was the first prison guard to enter the state, and he was born with body odor. Through this, we can see how he was excluded and oppressed in ordinary life because of this innate deficiency. Whether it is "The Wave" or the Stanford experiment, we can find that often the weak in the real environment burst into amazing power in the virtual organization. Where there is oppression, there is resistance, and when this resistance erupts in the name of experimentation, its power is often devastating. Therefore, Tarek, who tried his best to stir up trouble, and Porus, who wanted to maintain order in the cell, naturally formed two forces that were incompatible with each other.
Under the director's lens, men are not good at thinking and are the triggers of violence and contradictions. They are aggressive, and all problems are solved by force. They do not have compassion for vulnerable groups but exert pressure instead. They have a strong sense of territory and class, and when their territory is violated, they are furious and resolutely fight back. On the contrary, women are more rational in their thinking, and they are more advanced than men in the way of dealing with problems. Women seem to be more advanced than men. It was the female doctor who first discovered the mental instability of the prisoners, and she was the first to propose to terminate the experiment, but these were rejected by the male doctor, because the situation was exactly the effect he wanted to pursue, and he also needed a "predictable" report. "Experimental Report. So he hinted to the guards - "as long as no violence is used", that is, all means other than violence are allowed. It was the male doctor's selfishness that caused the whole experiment to get out of control, and when the experiment was out of control, as the only important person who could end this tragedy, he was actually absent. This is the limitation of being a male character, the impulsive character creates trouble but avoids responsibility at the critical moment. And the hero's girlfriend is tall and beautiful, she is not only Tarek's spiritual sustenance, but also the savior in the whole movie. It was she who took the initiative to find Tarek, and discovered that Tarek was abnormal. When all the characters were caught in the final prison riot, it was her calm thumping and two shots to end all conflicts. She appeared as a mourner who lost a loved one, but she was able to recover in a short period of time in the development of the plot and became more resilient, which is also the advantage of being a woman.
Prison cell, prison guard room, monitoring room, represent three different classes, equivalent to a food chain, which is the "camera behind the camera" mentioned in "Intestines". When the prison guard appears in the monitoring room, it represents this The food chain has been broken. Later in the story, the female doctor was forced to wear prison clothes and was even nearly raped by a fat prison guard. Under the circumstances, who would have sexual desire? Therefore, this kind of sexual assault can only be said to be another method of oppression by men against women, and it is the most common form of oppression. Men can't outwit women intellectually, so they can only start with sex and strength, two areas where men and women are born with disparity. Does possessing the body equal to having the upper hand?
In the darkness and evil throughout, there is also a touch of warmth, but this color was eventually wiped out, by the director and by the character itself. The kiosk owner, whose dream was to earn enough money to buy a Ferrari and park it in front of his kiosk, later admitted that everything he said was a lie, he didn't have a single friend, but in prison, he put the tower Rick became his only friend, and in the letter-writing session, he wrote the letter to Tarek. The newsstand owner is a representative of the disadvantaged groups in society. When everyone is complaining or fighting, he hides in a corner; when everyone is silent, he jumps out and scolds the guards. He is kind but cowardly, powerless or even not brave. When everything is unbearable, he can only warn others by destroying himself, just like migrant workers jumping off the building to ask for wages, borrowing loan sharks set themselves on fire to escape high interest, they have no bargaining chips in their hands, There is only one life to gamble. is that useful? In this immature small environment, it is useful. The newsstand owner did use his death to arouse everyone's anger, and the jailbreak operation finally unfolded, but what about in a more complex and larger environment? What they can leave in the end is just a smear of ashes or a pool of blood. Those who they hope to retaliate by shocking their own death will not have any conscience. Those who have no bargaining chip, they are this era Cannon fodder crushed under the rollers.
How long could the experiment go on without these unexpected interventions? Was it the original two weeks or was it longer? Those prison guards who have tasted the sweetness of standing at the top of the food chain, walk out of this experiment, but they are just a member of the crowd in the street, a salesman who depends on the customer's face to make money, and a small clerk who depends on the boss's face to live, but an ordinary person. People, when they put on that blue uniform, swelled into horrific monsters.
Fortunately, at the end of the film, the damned dies and the punished is punished. It's always like this, in a stage play, the best and the worst die, leaving the grey areas to live out the rest of their lives in horror. The only question that bothers me is whether the tragedy of all this is the way the world is, or whether humans have made it this way.
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