Whether it’s an adaptation of a real thing or not, it feels so fake

Santino 2022-11-01 10:38:38

Those who play the jailer may commit crimes during the experiment, but will they be so bad? The difference between real jailers and fake jailers is that the real jailers last for almost a lifetime, with the entire system behind them as the backstage, while the fake jailers will not be there after a few days. Without any backstage, they are not afraid of revenge after the experiment ends when they commit a crime. ?

The prisoners are the same. Even if the real prisoners are released, their social status is still low, and they cannot resist the jailers under the control of the whole system, but the fake ones are different. They only need to say "You kid wait for me after the experiment is over when they are teased by the jailers. Don't clean up you!" Those jailers must not dare to do anything better, but none of the prisoners' experimenters said this when they were treated badly? Are you a big fool? Especially there is a person who has actually been in prison. It is too easy to threaten the jailer.

And the most important point is that both the jailer and the prisoner are experimental subjects and both want to make money, so there will be a check on each other. If the jailer is too cruel, the prisoner can completely threaten with withdrawal, which means I can’t make money. You don't even want to earn it.

In short, the experimental subjects in the play are completely caught in ambivalence. On the one hand, they completely enter the experimental role, completely forgetting that the current state can only last for a few weeks. It can be said that they are deeply involved in the play. On the other hand, they always know that this is an experiment, and they want to quit the experiment when they can't stand it. It can only be said that they are too dedicated, or they will be completely involved in the play, or they will be completely out of the play, it seems that they have never thought about mixing experiment and reality.

The last word is "double-blind". If a subject knows too much about the content, it will not have the desired effect. The prisoner and the jailer know that the other party is fake, so there will be no excessive actions. . If they are unaware of each other during the experiment, tell the prisoner that the experimenter is a real jailer so that they can experience the life of the prisoner; tell the experimenter that the jailer is a real prisoner and ask them to pretend to be a jailer, so that the drama may appear. In the situation. Because the prisoner has scruples in his heart, but the jailer is gone.

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The Experiment quotes

  • Nix: Expert in the penitentiary system, are you boy?

    Travis: I just watch a lot of Discovery Channel.

  • Archaleta: Justice is what keeps us safe as a society. Ordered law.

    Travis: Justice is what starts wars. And eye for and eye for an eye. It takes a turning of the cheek for this species to evolve.

    Archaleta: Ah, so you're the one who knows what it's going to take for this society to evolve.

    Travis: I'm just regurgitating what people have been saying for a long time.