The Stanford Prison Experiment
July. 17,2015 R
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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Such a frustrating disappointment
Excellent, Without a doubt!!
I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
A 'true' story about fraudulent researchers led by a chief fraud. Except that it doesn't show any of the fraud and hence is not that 'true'. The outing of Zimbardo, the chief researcher as a fraud may be a bad thing for the movie but a good thing for science.
Disturbing film leaves you wishing for more clarity but I guess you can interpret the results for yourself. Maybe the director pulled his punches in the end for it lacks a real resolution. But this may be one movie where the director knows it's best to present the facts without interpretation.
The idea for this movie is good. It could have been exploited better. Nevertheless it is worth a watch and there is some good acting. it puts the psychological in psychological movie, but again, it could have been better if it didnt try to stick close to the real events.
The Stanford Prison Experiment movie portrays a real-life event instigated by the psychology department of Stanford University.In essence, the department decided to conduct a social experiment within which a bunch of students would be contained within a mock prison and would either take the role of prisoner of prison officer.The students were made to 'become' the role, and the movie covers the progression of how each student morphed into the mentality of either prisoner or police officer. It gets very brutal, and is somewhat amazing that it was ever allowed to take place past the first day (it lasted 6 days instead of the planned 14).The movie is historically accurate and does a great job of installing a sense of claustrophobia and a fear in the viewer. Upon viewing, some of the scenes seem far-fetched, but quick research will tell you that the scenes were based on actual events.A movie that will keep you gripped and appalled simultaneously.
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