Compared with other things, I am interested in some very original things shown in this film.
This group of people was originally equal, and they participated in the experiment for money or other purposes. OK, so far, there is no difference in the identity of everyone, that is, the mice participating in the experiment.
Subsequent groupings cause this equality to be broken. The orders of the guards must be carried out, and although prisoners have certain rights, they must act according to the orders of the guards and obey the arrangements. There is also an equality condition here, that neither side can use violence. But the hidden inequality is that guards have tools of violence, prisoners do not.
What happened after that was very interesting. The prisoners took this as a game and challenged the authority of the guards. After the guards entered this role, they thought they had to be suppressed. This was not only out of the psychology of completing the experiment at the beginning, but also because of the guard's personal privacy after being insulted. Love, and a kind of "dignity" born as a guardian of oneself. As a result, the guards began to suppress with fringe violence, an action that was not opposed by the experimenter and worked well.
After a period of silence, the prisoner began to rebel again, because he still thought it was a game, dissatisfied with his role, and could not tolerate the guard's high status as a suppressor after entering the state.
Both sides have their own leaders, and it looks more and more like real life. Those in power adopted various means to maintain their privileges, trying every means to make prisoners obey and not allow resistance; civilians gradually began to languish, most of them gave up resistance and accepted the setting, while a small number still resisted fiercely.
The trick used by those in power is to make the rebels lose support or even be excluded by making other civilians bear the consequences of the rebels.
When I saw this, I couldn't help thinking that when they just participated in the experiment, they were still a group of equal people, some cowardly, some timid, and some in need of money... But in a few days of the game, they quickly showed infinite Close to the reality of social class struggle and change process.
After the experimenter completely lost control of the experiment, the guards were completely stunned. They had tools of violence, and they used violent means to forcibly suppress all behaviors that they disliked. The petty townspeople have become the violent powers we take for granted that even they have complained about countless times before.
This film does a good job of revealing how good people turn bad when they have power, and we can even get a glimpse into the stratification of social members and even more terrifying things.
But the movie looks a little boring, I'm really sorry for my expectations.
2015.9.18
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