I'm NOT a prisoner!!! F*CK YOU!!
First of all, in this movie we observe that it is not just the police and the prisoners. On day1, the most eye-catching thing is not the conflict between the two parties, but the dominators—the experimenters. They presided over the experiment and made the rules, but after an accident happened, they turned a blind eye to the unfair punishment—the red light never came on after half an hour. This makes people angry. As people who operate under the rules, their behavior is restricted and they lose their freedom, and the reason for their submission is that they trust the experimenter to give justice. But on day1, these so-called scientists have revealed their true colors-they are the ultimate BOSS. When a behavioral psychological experiment can control people's tolerance limits at will, know the life and death of people ruthlessly, and play with the test subjects between the palms of the hands, can we deny that these test subjects are not white mice? This is the price needed to explore the laws of science and pursue the truth? And these costs are to provide 1,000 yuan a day to ordinary people desperately in need of money in the name of "wishers are hooked," and then put them in the Colosseum to observe oppression and counter-oppression? This is dog shit. So I think the conclusion is a horrible flaw for the experimenter's judgment. In the later inhumane (note: this is related to humanity!) the exposure of the psychological experiment actually reduced the price of the whole movie, and this tragic experiment became an accident. Actually, otherwise, the prison inside is actually a small society, or a microcosm of the world, and what happens in the prison is a phenomenon that has existed since human society, so the thought content expressed in this movie is almost perfect. We have watched too many such movies about human nature, and we know what will happen just by looking at the introduction. It is the experiment itself that really allows the thought content of this film to develop in depth, not the conclusions drawn after the experiment. At least, in my eyes that may be biased, the theme of the movie is not only about human nature, but also an examination of human spiritual civilization and political civilization.
First, the experimental rules and scientists in the eyes of the police are actually the state machinery in reality. Think about it, anti-Semitism, Nazis, Cultural Revolution, KKK, can we say that the entire German nation is a scumbag? Can we say that all the Red Guards should be shot to death? We can say that white people are all A group of cold-blooded and brutal creatures whose brains were kicked by donkeys? Some people and some people are just sacrificial objects under the frenzy of thoughts. The system in their time is deformed. When some or even a small group of people do whatever they want to provoke troubles (blonde men), but there is no related punishment, the moral concepts of others are gradually weakened and they all act. Play the role of adjudicator and judge (black leader), flaunting his correctness under the guise of an institution. As Jung said, the collective unconscious. When behavior is no longer just the behavior itself, but a wave of cohesion is formed, everyone’s personality has been blurred, they are just a symbol-collectivism is popular, he can hide the devil in everyone’s heart, for these In the devil's defense, personal consciousness has been weakened; and the system is precisely the legitimate reason for their indulgence. But those who insist on their inner morals are eliminated by this group, and even become the target of being slaughtered (little black youth).
Second, the experimental code in the eyes of prisoners is a kind of trust, which can be said to be the belief in people's spiritual world in reality. These people who have undergone the experiment, including Travis, do have financial difficulties, but they agree that there is an important prerequisite for this experiment, that is, security. Their consent is based on trust. Regardless of whether these trusts have clear guarantees, signatures, and contracts, the most ironic thing is that the ugly human nature that the observer intends to observe has clearly hit itself. They are the gods who are looking at everything. When mankind is still in the initial stage of struggle, the indifference of these gods actually heralds the betrayal of his followers and the collapse of their beliefs. So Travis said I'LL KILL YOU to the camera inside the closed iron pipe, and was foreshadowed from the beginning. Why do people need faith? In particular, why do some people need religious beliefs, Jesus, Allah, and Buddha even more after experiencing all kinds of hardships? It is not because people believe in the existence of gods, but the beliefs in their hearts with gods as the background provide support for their persistence and forbearance. They believe that the sufferings of this life are saved for future generations, they believe that they are children of God, and they believe that they will be saved after suffering. Entering heaven and gaining eternal life-they find excuses for living in the world after suffering and impermanence. Excuse. Also because gods do not exist, everyone can interpret them in his own way. So why is there Mahayana Buddhism, Hinayana Buddhism, Chinese Zen Buddhism and Tibetan Tantric Buddhism, Catholicism and Calvinism; why Jerusalem, the city of peace, has been beaten by Judaism, Christianity, and Islam for thousands of years. Everyone actually believes that they are right, more or less, but their beliefs are too short and thin, and wearing the cloak of religion, even if they are short and thin, they shine. This is also the righteous rhetoric of the police in the later period. It has nothing to do with compliance and money. This is a question of faith. Unfortunately, in the experiment, these beliefs were substantiated and concretized. Yes, as "prisoners", I believe they will really come out to uphold justice, they promised. But they did not. "I'm strong, I'm growing, and God is helping the bastard to back up"!
On the other hand, the police, their settings may not be random, who knows. There are four main characters: the black leader is the fission of the lamb to the big bad wolf, the dissatisfied blond man is the executioner of the fox and the fake tiger, the young black man is the martyr who defends his conscience, and the eyeliner is a helper, and the rest can be ignored. . First of all, the black leader, in real life, he is a small person, a small person who doesn't go well. No money, and it happened that the mother was sick, was discriminated against by chickenshit, and seemed to have impotence (this is a serious joke, just to make up for the lack of female roles in the experiment, the absolute advantage of male power). He is not a strong man. It can only be said that the system gives him the power to live and kill. From the beginning to the end, he is the defender of the system. During the experiment, he no longer has his own personality characteristics and character image. He is no longer alone. , But a symbol, a symbol, a symbol of those in power. So I called him the black boss because I really didn't remember his name. What he did was defend the rules of the experiment. This is an extremely responsible person. Even though he was assigned to a group of prisoners at the beginning, he still followed the rules, did not resist, did not fight back, and endured silently. Sadly, he lives under power. The greed of power will always be countered by power in the end. Yes, there are many kinds of power. The power borrowed from the ruler is used to order executions and rewards and punishments is the power of hierarchy. There are many violent reactionary people at any time to beat your head and blow your head is also power, the power to life and death. After he published an impassioned tirade, his physical reaction allowed him to get the sweetness of power. So, after watching the blond man punish the prisoner, the black leader, with his rich experience of being abused by the powers, boarded. He became a leader after reaching the peak of power. The screenwriter here played a bit, why did the blonde man only become a helper at the beginning? Because his pursuit is just pleasure, the pleasure of abuse of the weak (again patriarchy), the black leader is different. He supports the system, and the system also supports him: Don’t everyone want money, then we should experiment Carry to the end, come on, don't care if you are wronged, insisting on two weeks is the kingly way. This is his theoretical basis. It's just that he is too involved. The helplessness in reality made him eager to find a sense of accomplishment in the virtual experiment, shuttled under the convenience of the system, directed the humiliation of the prisoners, the execution of the "traitor" black youth in the police, and the despicable persecution of Travis. However, he is always a weak person, solitary and empty-handed when he is empty-handed, he is humbly humming, because he is worthless; when the upper body of the yellow robe is pregnant with jade and purple, he turns his hands to cover the clouds and the hands to rain, because power supports him . He has never had his own personality, just a humble servant who is muddled in the big background. In the process of torturing Travis, he was not a cheerful face of a villain, but he appeared just and awe-inspiring, but also embarrassed; in the returning carriage, his eyes flickered, and he also had a weird expression that he wanted to recognize that he had forgotten to say. He does not have his own moral bottom line and spiritual standards, and the only criterion for reference is the red light.
As a humble and insignificant pessimist, I strongly believe that in the history of mankind, the conflicts and tumults, violence and struggles between crowds (crowds!) are all slow-motion long shots; peace and beauty are just a moment. Look at the peasant uprisings, political movements, ethnic cleansing, class oppression. Oppression, uprising, oppression, uprising, this is the original driving force for the wheels of human civilization to roll forward. Otherwise, if the people are old and dead, the earth will always be slash-and-burn cultivation. But then calm down and think about it. If the movie ends at the moment they leave the experimental site, there is no worthy of the crimes of cruel and inhuman experimenters. Then, the human civilization on the earth for so many years really has no value of nostalgia, then, part of it The optimist thinks he must drink hatred and swallows his voice, dying to be unable to. Well, let me just say that, the theme of this movie is human nature, not ugly human nature. That black young man abide by his own moral code. He took risks for the prisoners. Unfortunately, he hated the difficulty of being alone. The combination of moral position and actual position was too sensitive. In the end, his heroic behavior became a tragedy with tears and tears. The insulin novelist (the living is gone, let him be a novelist) from beginning to end, he is not just a weak person, he is a dreamer, a fly man, and a true flying man. His relationship with Travis reflects the compassion and compassion in human nature.
Not to mention the male protagonist seems to be uncomfortable. This is a hero with a fresh and fragrant soul. He has many things to say, such as self-salvation tattoos, a girl who accidentally falls in love with a girl, the agreed location in India, a red prayer bead wrapped around his right hand, and so on. But I can't tell, I won't show off. Almost all movies that use struggle as a clue have an image of defending justice (sorry, only in my short film viewing history). For example, Shawshank's Redemption, X-Files, A Good Life, Schindler's List. The discussion about "humanity" is concentrated in Travis, and the others just stop at it. This is, if Travis is on the side of the police, will there be oppression and violent resistance? I think there will be. Of course, it is not necessarily the root of human inferiority. There is another possibility that the sense of justice is pale and weak. Add another hypothesis that the blond man and the eyeliner are prisoners. According to the character of the characters, we can't guarantee that there will be no prison riots. Travis is a good guy. He rose up to fight for justice. He said that the basis of human evolution is tolerance. This is not only justice, but also a kind of great mercy and compassion. But he is a sad man. So he can't be Li Kui, can't carry two big axes to chop people's flesh and blood, nor can he be Lu Zhishen, can't be bold enough to make a bloody way with insulin chubby on his back. When injustice came to the table, his justice was trampled like a persimmon, and Travis leaned in the corner and wept, hoarse. Be patient, almost crying, this kind of brutality is not comparable to SAW). The prisoner with 88 tattoos, looked at the situation indifferently, analyzed the evolutionary chain, and could not bear it before he shot. Hey, this is the real God.
(Looking back after a year and a half, the anger just after reading it was really big at that time)
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