The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
This film is based on the actual events that took place in 1971 when Stanford professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo created what became one of the most shocking and famous social experiments of all time.
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In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.
If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.
Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.
This movie matched the experiment perfectly and while it was beautifully executed and super enthralling is extremely horrific and traumatizing to see what normal humans can become
The fact that this actually happened at a college, and Stanford nonetheless, just blows me away. Such an interesting story about what happens when people are put into a situation like this. Awesome movie
The question you will be continually asking yourself while watching the docudrama "The Stanford Prison Experiment" is this: "Why in the HELL don't these kids posing as the incarcerated just say, "F it, man! I'm OUTTA here!" And then the more disturbing question emerges. Why on EARTH did the bulk of them EVER choose to stay?
I love a thriller and this movie did not disappoint. The plot was basically a psychology lecturer (Doctor) get 18 young men to volunteer 2 weeks of their lives for $15 a day to be in a simulated prison environment. 9 become prison guards and 9 become prisoners.The prisoners are picked up blind folded and basically taken to a makeshift prison and the guards are in shifts of 3 that take care of the prisoners. From the beginning prisoners are read rules and they have been all told guards will not touch them etc.It gets totally engrossing when the guards realise they have power and they become sadistic and cruel and totally abuse the power given to them, acting out of character and the prisoners end up weak and their identities destroyed and taken away from them, 3 of the stronger ones coming to close to meltdowns and a breakdown.Such a good movie and to realise it is real made me shudder but it was totally interesting and I couldn't stop watching it. I recommend this film, its an amazing thriller and knowing it really happened makes it even more worrying.