Not long ago, Hongyanxiu saw that many people in the media were recommending a reality TV movie about Darren Brown .
Created by British psychological magician Darren Brown, the show explores whether a person can go to life-threatening extremes when influenced by their surroundings.
To put it bluntly, it is to show a sense of "social subordination" ,
This awareness can come from a very authoritative individual, or a group of like-minded people,
In fact, Hongyanxiu still agrees with this kind of rhetoric. After all, history and some areas do exist in such a phenomenon.
For example, in the ancient centralized system, the emperor was portrayed as the true son of heaven, and the mandate of heaven could not be violated.
For example, in modern society, the problem of running a red light and crossing the road, because everyone is running a red light, the herd mentality makes many people follow the trend.
But these do not represent all, the foundation of its establishment depends entirely on "individual interests" !
Individuals based on human beings will make two choices when they are subject to "loss of interests": resistance and escape ,
These two choices also depend on the proportion of the individual's foreseeable loss of benefits.
If the loss is large, it will be resisted, such as an uprising, and if the loss is small, there will be a variety of escapes, such as violating morality and ethics, and obeying and protecting yourself.
And for this Darren Brown reality show experiment, but want to use environmental impact,
Let an ordinary person kill another irrelevant person within 72 hours ,
Obviously, the element of performance is greater than the display of human nature, and the gimmick is greater than human thinking.
However, liars rely on acting skills, and reality shows rely on challenging the bottom line , and Darren Brown has done it again!
Darren Brown's performance once again amazed and stunned countless "melon-eating crowds", but Hongyanxiu felt that it was just a wonderful magic show.
Darren Brown did express the horror of "social submission", but there is also a certain degree of performance and exaggeration.
First of all, Darren Brown is now a famous British psychology researcher and magician,
The perfect combination of the two can actually split into two physiques: life mentors and charlatans ,
His name itself is an "influence", just like in the third season of "Sherlock", he hypnotized Watson for a few seconds as himself, earning Sherlock precious time to cover his fake death.
So, Darren Brown itself can represent a theory ,
And this theory will not cause serious doubts to many people who are familiar with and love him.
Plus at the beginning of this reality show, pretending to be a policeman, asking a male employee of a coffee shop over the phone to push a stroller away to rescue hostages from an audience of young female kidnappers,
When Darren Brown solidified his theory with a small experiment, we couldn't help but admit his theory.
In such a specific environment, if you believe, the first consideration is still "loss of profit",
If the sense of justice is overwhelming, you will do it, if it feels that it will cause loss of profit, you will hesitate,
But the environment set by Darren Brown, if you think about it, is very clever!
First of all, the kidnapper is a young woman, who is weaker than the male clerk.
The second is to push the stroller away, which is much less dangerous than subduing the kidnapper.
So Darren Brown's "social submissiveness" proved, in fact, not so "conclusive" , just the starter of a big meal.
Then came the selection of "actuality actors" for the 72-hour killing show, Darren Brown using "herd mentality" ,
However, the three actors kept "standing up and sitting down", and then observed whether the many "authentic actors" would imitate themselves.
Then, a 29-year-old single male Chris was selected from these self-imitation "real sex actors" to conduct this reality show experiment.
In fact, this process of selecting "authentic actors" was put on the screen, and its role was to promote the development of the plot.
More importantly, it reinforces and consolidates Darren Brown's theory of "social compliance" again.
Everything is ready, it is the packaging of the environment scene,
Invite famous personalities such as "Doctor Who" David Tennant and "Tide Lord" Martin Freeman to virtualize a charity project.
Then, hold a charity auction dinner with Chris assisting charity project director (actor) Tom,
For Chris, Darren Brown needs to use some environment, psychology to influence him, control him,
For example, informing Chris to attend a charity auction dinner without informing him that he needs to wear formal attire,
Then tell him that he needs to help carry bags and serve those big bosses and high-ranking people, making him aware of his low social status.
Then, through the interface, take away his mobile phone to prevent the outside world from affecting him,
In a commanding tone, he asked him to insert a sign of vegetarian food into the meat. In short, it was all hints of details, which influenced Chris to be a walking dead who only obeyed his orders .
Then I found an actor who became a big boss to come to the scene before the charity auction dinner, and suddenly died ,
In the face of an unexpected situation, the charity project director (actor) Tom asked Chris to remove the body first and not call the police, so as not to affect the entire charity auction dinner.
Then, without giving Chris time to think, let him pretend to be the big boss who died suddenly and speak on the stage.
After that, let things not calm down for a moment, and reversed again, the wife of the big boss dressed up as Chris arrived,
Tell them: "Her husband has sleeping sickness and is dead!"
He also told them that when her husband attended important occasions, he would always carry a voice recorder with him. When Chris was relieved, he found that the body of the big boss had disappeared.
Then, the big boss suddenly appeared, very angry, using the tape recorder as evidence, to report the whole incident,
So, all the staff and Chris gathered together to discuss countermeasures,
The unanimous opinion of everyone is to kill the big boss, and unanimously recommend Chris to do it himself and push the big boss off the high platform!
In the end, yes, Chris didn't do that,
To tell the truth, a dinner party in the upper class, what's the matter with Chris, because the interests of the event party are threatened, they will kill? No matter who it is, it won't do it.
When the big boss died suddenly, the charity project director (actor) Tom's "order" to Chris was not "social submission", but emotional communication.
But these details, the reality show will not let fans have time to think about it ,
Darren Brown immediately chalked Chris down to "the lucky guy" because there were four "authenticity actors" in the trial,
The gender is also two men and two women, very scientific, the same process, and the other three people pushed the big boss off the high platform!
Chris's ending is perfect, in this reality show, we see the kind side of human nature,
However, it was implicitly proved that 75% of the people in the "social compliance" test applied to this theory ,
When you think about it, it is extremely terrifying, but if everyone thinks about it, if it is themselves, will the same process really do it!
I'm afraid Hong Yanxiu won't do this, because from the perspective of the proportion of personal interests lost, it seems that he has not suffered much loss.
After all, he just didn't call the police in time. This is also to realize the big boss's charitable wish, and there is a recording pen to prove it.
Many people may think that
In this reality show, Darren Brown keeps events in reverse, so that Chris has no time to think about these questions,
And "social conformity" does apply in a certain large-scale environment, but in the small environment of this reality show, there is no comparison.
"Social conformity" does make people think about human nature,
But Darren Brown's reality show is the same as the variety show that puts certain actors in acting competitions, killing strangers in 72 hours, too fake, too fake...
Nowadays, liars rely on acting skills, while reality shows rely on challenging the bottom line and using gimmicks as leads to attract our attention.
As a beauty show for the people who eat melons, Darren Brown once again successfully used psychology to perform a wonderful magic trick.
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