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Have you noticed that Europeans and Americans are interested in the theme of prison.
As early as 2005, the United States launched the God-defying drama "Prison Break". This drama should be regarded as the first time that netizens across the country have been chasing American dramas since the beginning of the Internet era in China.
"prison Break"
Not only jailbreak, but there are still quite a lot of European and American movies and TV dramas about prisons. What I want to introduce to you today is a prison-themed drama.
"Death Experiment"
"Death Experiment".
This movie was accidentally discovered by the editor when I was temporarily in a drama shortage and couldn't get the spirit to watch the new movie . Because it is a prison theme, although the editor himself has no particular love for this theme, he has always been very interested, because I feel that in the The prison is a closed environment that is completely isolated from the outside world, and the unusualness of everyone in it. The combination of these two elements creates an environment. It can be said that even if the plot is not mentioned, the prison itself has a unique storytelling. Good conditions, and especially screenwriters or directors who are not confident in controlling the theme of the big pattern, and are afraid of showing their timidity, are especially suitable for practicing with similar themes.
Looking at the cast again, oh, there is an actor that the editor likes a lot, Adrien Brody, so the editor of the drama drought decided, that's it!
Adrien Brody
The film is based on the 2001 German film of the same name , and the story is based on Mario Jordanou's novel "The Black Box". However , after watching the movie to be introduced today, in order to ensure the accuracy of the content, I also roughly watched the German version of the movie of the same name, and I can tell you that the difference is quite big. It is not so much a remake of the German version as it is based on the novel "Black Box".
The inspiration for "Black Box" is precisely from the controversial Stanford Prison Experiment in the history of psychology. The editor still knows a little about this experiment, which will be discussed later.
Travis , who was recently unemployed , saw a job posting in the newspaper, with a salary of $14,000 for two weeks. After a look, it turned out that this was an experiment initiated by an institution. The researchers claimed that the experiment would be carried out in a state prison, including Travis . The 26 participants, including Weiss, were divided into prison guards and prisoners. The prison guards had to manage the prisoners according to strict rules, and those who disobeyed the orders would be punished.
It was originally thought to be a rich role-playing game, but as the experiment progresses, the will to power is gradually manifested, and everyone seems to be lost in the role, and gradually, participants are assigned as prison guards He began to lose his mind, and began to indulge in the illusion and desire for power that he could control the life and death of criminals at will.
And a group of participants who were assigned to the role of prisoners, represented by Travis, were indignant about this. They tried to resist, but they aroused the desire to kill and pervert control of the "prison guards" headed by Mike. , they did their utmost to humiliate the "prisoners", and even urinated on Travis' face, trampling the dignity of the "prisoners" to a terrible degree.
The conflict between the two sides became more and more intense, and finally, after one of the "prisoners" died unexpectedly in order to protect Travis, it finally reached the point of life and death. In the end, everyone rushed out of the prison, the experiment ended, and everyone seemed to have returned to their normal lives. The designer of the experiment was arrested for experimental manslaughter, but all the participants in the experiment left indelible memories in their hearts. .
In the final analysis, this is a drama about human nature . What happens to human nature when one or a group of people is given supreme power in a completely closed environment (that is, when the power system is not subject to outside interference) .
In fact, I don't think there is much novelty in the plot, because it is just adapted from books and some experimental facts. In the real history of psychology, the truth of the "Stanford Prison Experiment" is even more bloody.
As a narrator who is not a major in psychology at present, the editor has always been impressed by the "Stanford Prison Experiment" because it is so real and cruel.
In 1971, Stanford University psychology professor Philip Zimbardo built a mock prison in the basement of the university and recruited 24 volunteers to complete a 14-day experiment. These volunteers were randomly divided into two groups, 12 people served as police officers, and the other 12 served as prisoners (there were only 9 people in each group during the experiment, and 3 people were backup).
Although the story in the first half is not exactly the same as the one in the movie, the experience is almost the same without changing the medicine. It is still the abuse of the "prisoners" by the "policemen". However, later, in the real experiment in 1971, everyone, from the experimental participants, to Professor Philip himself, and nearly 50 spectators who came to watch the experimental process, all were affected by the experimental process being too real. They have forgotten that they actually have the right to stop the experiment at any time.
Until later, one of the experiment organizers found out from the surveillance video that the "policemen" would use various inhumane means to abuse the "prisoners" at night, and one Harvard professors stopped the experiment firmly, and the experiment finally stopped when everyone woke up and realized that they were beyond the limit. However, most people, whether it is the test volunteers or Professor Philip himself, have been affected by this experiment to a lesser extent. You can check the details, and I won't say much.
Sometimes the editor will think that the world we live in is orderly and well-organized, and most people seem to be normal people with a similar appearance, but who knows, the nature of everyone hidden behind the mask?
Just like Mike in the movie, he clearly looked like a nervous normal person before entering the experimental prison. Who knew that he would be completely unable to control himself in the end and completely indulge in the false illusion of supremacy?
I think this idea is scary. Sometimes I even wonder if it's the real delusion that the calm life of the river crabs at this moment, people seem to be very normal and get along well, because no one of them can meet the opportunities provided in the movie and the Stanford experiment. . If one day, we have such an opportunity, what will happen then?
You can't get caught in such an idea, or you'll doubt your life just by thinking about it.
However, as far as the matter is concerned, "Death Experiment" can only score about 6.5 points, the main reason is that the characters in it are too pale, and the key point is: the fluency of the plot is quite poor. Whenever I talk about the topic of fluency, the editor has to take out "The Players Behind the Scenes" some time ago as a negative example, but don't think that this problem is only found in domestic movies, and the same is true for foreign movies.
The real Stando Prison Experiment is an existence that can make people feel chills just by looking at the text and a few black and white pictures, and "Death Experiment" did not succeed in making the fear caused by this profound human nature very good. To put it simply, both the characters and the plot are too superficial to see the deep meaning.
But it's okay, as a film to pass the time by chance, "Death Experiment" at least has a passing score, so as not to make the editor cry and waste time and slap myself. In other words, the editor is going to watch "I'm Not the God of Medicine" tomorrow. At present, the film has not been officially released, and the word-of-mouth has already exploded. Thinking about it, I have some expectations, hehe.
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