For me, this is a rather troublesome viewing. Compared with the ethics films I have watched before, the role of a psychologist is like a "God's perspective", which is a multiple-choice question of human nature for morality and career. , quite scary. In other words, the balance of human beings to rules and human nature is tilted. The following is my analysis pretending to be a professional: The film begins with a brief questioning of all the visitors, and selects subjects who are physically and mentally healthy and emotionally stable. Among them, although the psychologists adopted a random method when assigning the subjects' roles, they implied that the subjects were determined by their "traits". Each "role in a safe environment" was created. The experiment took just six days. The subjects went from having equal rights to "adapting to the role" and gave up their dignity. What is the role of the psychologist? A condoning power man, yes, in my opinion, in the latter part of the film, the psychologist is no longer just the guiding role of the main test. Even, he has long known that the experiment is not in compliance with the law, and still takes advantage of the loophole to continue the experiment. In the beginning, everyone followed the rule of "no personal attacks on prisoners", but when psychologists emphasized "role" and "authority" again and again, the good and the scum were in one thought. When prisoners put on prison uniforms, change from names to numbers, and are deprived of their individuality, they really become prisoners. Even rare resistance is used as a way to sow discord, and those who have to leave are used to intimidate those who stay to increase their fears. The rights mentioned in the film are the "authority effect" in psychology. People regard the authoritative as right and execute it according to the requirements of the authority, which is a kind of compulsive control. There's also the famous Lucifer effect, how good people turn into demons. Under the norms and constraints of various social role scripts in daily life, will we, like God's favorite angel Lucifer, unknowingly do unbelievable things to others, thus degenerating into the devil Satan? Where is the boundary between good and evil, the fragility of human nature is beyond imagination. People are all succumbed to authority, constantly lose themselves, and even go crazy. But I think of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs theory, people always have to survive in order to meet other needs. In a situation where survival is strenuous, it seems that some compromises are natural.
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