"Death Experiment" is a film based on the "Stanford Prison Experiment" by the American psychologist Professor Jimbard on the theme of human nature. The story is actually very simple. In order to satisfy scientists’ curiosity about unknown fields, a group of people were recruited from the society to participate in a so-called scientific experiment, and they promised that after the experiment was successfully concluded, everyone would get a generous sum. The honorarium. As we all know, experiments like this with the human body as the research object are the most common in the medical field. When a new drug is about to be marketed, drug reaction experiments must be done in a certain audience group, but most of the experimental objects are in urgent need of such experiments. When patients who are treated with drugs face the choice of death or first-line survival, such experiments have nothing to condemn, but rather have a specific humanitarian color. However, "Death Experiment" uses a lot of money as bait. In a disguised and voluntary manner, it uses private detention and soft violence/force to study the psychological and behavioral responses of human beings under such abnormal conditions. Of inhumane scientific experiments. History has proved that all inhumane experiments conducted under the guise of science are pseudoscience.
When these groups of people are given special identities, opposition also arises. One side is a prison guard who has been given power, and the other side is a prisoner who has lost his freedom and has a low identity. Under the situation of relatively concentrated power and diametrically opposed identities, the contradiction is particularly obvious and acute. What is wrapped in suits and shoes is not necessarily the truth of civilization. When people are at the lowest level of society and are accustomed to humble status, once they are given special rights, the evil side often erupts more purely and thoroughly. At first, the group of people who participated in a game attitude in order to reward, lost their freedom, and the status and power of the two sides were extremely disparity, and their psychology slowly changed. As prison guards, they started with persuasion and mild punishment on the grounds of non-violation. When they saw prisoners cowardly letting go, they got a sense of satisfaction they had never had before in this kind of control, so that later , Gradually indulging in the superior sense of superiority spawned by rights and obliterating conscience, resulting in escalation of violence, exceeding the rules and bottom line, and eventually leading to bloodshed.
When the film lashes out at the ugly side of human nature without evasiveness, it also unsparingly promotes the glorious side of human nature. Prisoner No. 77 played by Adrian Brody, after repeatedly challenging power and rules, and being humiliated and beaten repeatedly, his emotions finally broke through the line of rational defense and led the prisoner to launch a riot. In the film, when freedom and speech have been manipulated by those in power, and their dignity and rights have been trampled upon, almost everyone has become the silent majority, and being at peace with everything is inseparable from human inertia and weakness in the bones. However, it is worth celebrating that there are always restless people like Prisoner 77. Because of this, ideals and hopes are even more precious and worthy of the name.
Adrian Brody's performance in the film can be described as easy, it is another great explosion of acting after "The Pianist". In the movie "The Pianist", with his thin body and melancholic eyes, he vividly portrays an artist who has suffered from the persecution of the Nazis. In "Death Experiment", it subverted the previous image, with a strong iron fist and unyielding tenacity, it perfectly shaped a strong and flexible, rebellious and bloody man.
The experiment is over, and the door that symbolizes rights and freedom is suddenly opened, but it also exposes the ugliness and goodness of human nature to the sun. Everyone is heartbroken, and they have nowhere to hide in the face of the openness and *** of nature. Just like the scenes of animals that are fast-changing at the beginning of the film, in fact, humans may have evolved only self-righteous wisdom and stronger selfish desires, but the animal nature in their bones has not changed. In the end, the film ended in romantic love and beautiful scenes. This warm and affectionate scene brought a complete end to the whole film. This ending may not be deep enough, but everyone yearns for beautiful things, and they all like to indulge in happy imaginations and do not want to wake up. This is also the human side.
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