The story of the film is actually very simple. A "scientific experiment" called for participants, including 20 people including Moritz, a former reporter who intended to get in to get news clues with gimmicks. They were organized into two groups, with 12 people acting as prisoners. , Eight people acted as prison guards. They wanted to imitate the order in the prison. At the same time, the prison guards were asked not to use violence. The following story was full of impact. The situation began to get out of control on the second day of the experiment. In the end, it led to the tragedy of two tragic deaths and many injuries. After watching this film, it is inevitable that many people will sigh for a lifetime, "Human nature is evil!" However, from my perspective, this film has nothing to do with whether human nature is inherently good or evil. On the contrary, it shows the inclination of human nature itself. Sex, and it is precisely because it is in a neutral state, so some external forces may make it deviate from one side, for example, the role and the value shaping caused by the cognition behind the role.
From the very beginning of the experiment, the person in charge often expressed their role meaning to the participants suggestively without consciously. First of all, the number of them is not equal. There are eight prison guards and 12 prisoners. This is also in line with reality. However, prison guards have gained natural authority and ruling power. Just like the structure of a social pyramid, it is not the simple number that determines the power. In the most primitive society, a society that has established a hierarchical order, the level you are in is the key, and eight of them are placed in this dominant position. Secondly, the person in charge has repeatedly emphasized their authority to prison guards, such as the education we have received since childhood or the influence of various media, what the police should do, what lawyers should do, what officials should do, what prisoners should do, etc., each society Characters have long-formed behavior settings. Each of us has this "character attribute table" in our minds. Similar to video games, if you choose or are selected for this character, you must match this set of rules. Third, order needs to be maintained. Just like a young man who has just become a manager, your match with this role is unstable at first. You may be questioned by senior employees who are lower than your rank, so you need to take advantage of your being Granted the authority to strengthen your match with your role. In the film, at first, everyone regarded it as a game. Even though it was divided into two groups and everyone started playing and playing with each other, the hints of the characters have been formed, and with the strengthening of external forces, they gradually began to produce boundaries, just like playing a game. Similarly, since you are divided into two sides, you always want to "win" against the other side. Therefore, the prison guards began to strengthen their roles. At first they used disguised violence to insult the prisoners. They became more powerful. At the same time, it is worth noting that the other side The prisoners of actor also began to "enter into the play", gradually identifying with their status as prisoners, and beginning to become weak. A game-like experiment has truly formed such a division in just a few days.
Finally, let me talk about the uncontrollable nature of violence. The person in charge of the experiment initially believed that they could control the violence, thinking that their rules and bonuses could control the violence, but at the same time they distributed real violence tools such as batons. To the prison guard. This actually creates a contradiction. As a role with a hierarchy, there is inherently an impulse to release power downwards. In many cases, it manifests peace, such as rewards and punishments between ranks, and academic access between teachers and students. In the film, it is a more extreme situation. A certain degree of "soft violence" in life has become a real violence right here. In the recognition of the role, the prison guards actually think that they should They have such power, and the person in charge of the experiment requires them to exercise self-control. This is undoubtedly a contradiction, and it is also doomed to the fate of the experiment going out of control under the violence. Advantageous classes are often more prone to "victimization delusions" and tend to over-react to the behavior of suppressed groups. This film further enlarges the original material. In the end, the two sides are incompatible with fire and water, and the scope of the violence is even expanded to the prison guards hijacking the experimenters. In the end, the violence escalates into an infighting, a small "war", which the prison guards can maintain. The use of violence in the name of order ultimately leads to an imbalance of order, which is also an irony of the reality of human society.
In the real society, we can always see the order formed by such role power gaps. It contains too many unstable factors in the appearance of stability, which can form order reconstruction in a drastic way, or reform in a gradual way. In the film, Moritz, as a prisoner, is a thorny spoiler. He suffered a lot of trauma and began the fiercest resistance. He appeared more sober and more confused. In fact, every group is likely to have such thorns. They are the first to be suppressed by power and at the same time prompt people to reflect. At the same time, in the atmosphere of this film, it is difficult for me to pay tribute to Moritz like a lone hero in the American blockbuster, because if he is included in the prison guard team, he might become as tyrannical as the prison guard team in the film. The general role of the boss.
Recently I saw a piece of news. The reporter interviewed a 6-year-old elementary school student. "What do you want to do when you grow up?" The child replied, "Want to be an official." The reporter asked, "What kind of official do you want to be?" The child replied. , "Being...corrupt officials, because corrupt officials have a lot of things.". For example, the extreme situation caused by the role setting in "Death Experiment" is a case after all, and the role cognition shown in the news is more worth pondering. Not only the elementary school student, but also the public, the cognition of officials is probably already there. In a similar situation, on the one hand, we denounce corrupt officials; on the other hand, with the awareness of this role, once in the position, the behavior is likely to comply with this set of rules of understanding. The actual cognitive alienation of similar role codes is the most worrying. It may corrode a greater degree of social order and stability, and let the sociality of countless individual "humanity" lead to directions that we don't want to see.
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