Platicsco Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Teringer An Exercise In Nonsense

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Dantae Hiruma 'The Experiment' is based on the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, in which 24 Stanford students took on the roles of guards and prisoners for a psychological experiment in 1971. And within a period of only 6 days, those students had adapted to their roles so well that the conductors had to shut down the experiment prematurely. The experiment was seen by the conductors as an example for their hypothesis that the personality traits of prisoners and guards are the chief cause of abusive behavior in prison. However, it has since gone through quite a lot of criticism for many things including the ways the conductors influenced test subjects through their instructions, and the fact that students who volunteered for the experiment were mostly aggressive and authoritarian. It's also notable that BBC attempted to replicate this experiment in 2002 but did not get the same result.So in short, the Stanford Prison Experiment is not really an interesting discovery as it aspired to be, and so is this movie. Compared to the real-life experiment, the movie is even more ridiculous since it eventually ignores the test subjects' salary, one of the driven factors in the original experiment, and more importantly, it fails to mention the experiment's goal, and therefore makes the whole thing rather pointless. As the result, the only thing that the movie has 'proven' is violent people will act violently given the chance, a fact that can be seen in almost all thriller/action movies ever. The execution, fortunately, is a bit better that the premise. It's actually very suspense and gripping at times, and the characters' progression, at least within the first hour, is quite logical. The acting, however, was much less convincing. I've found myself laughing at some scenes that were supposed to be serious due to the terrible supporting cast. It also contains some very implausible details like how unprepared and understaffed the conductors are, or the relationship between the main character and his 'girlfriend'. I especially question the parts with the girlfriend, because I'm still not sure why the movie makers even felt that they needed to have her in the movie. As far as I can see, all she does is dragging the movie out, and showing some nudity.In conclusion, 'The Experiment' is a quite entertaining movie with a unique setting, but that's it. There's nothing really groundbreaking, or interesting about it. If that's what you expect, then I recommend watching a documentary on the original experiment instead.

asnac There's some grainy footage on youTube of the Stanford Prison experiment - it's worth watching either before or after seeing this film, to see how closely they tried to follow it. For example, the humiliating gowns that the prisoners had to wear are identical to those at Stanford Prison. How do you make a film that is entirely about men in a prison, interesting to women? Or indeed to a wider audience than just those interested in the psychological experiment? What this director did was contrive a female lover for one of the prisoners. The film cuts to her every ten minutes or so. Her role is loom around looking sad or anxious or concerned (she really is no deeper than that), and occasionally take her clothes off. They also invented a female, youngish employee of the laboratory, who is also always anxious and concerned, and also manages to lose her clothes at one point.This film envisages the original experiment going much further than it did, with the violence becoming extreme in the last half hour, leading to lots of running around from one peril to another. (I found it hard to retain my attention, as the interesting stuff had all been done and I expect they only put the chase scenes in to widen the audience appeal.)

lord woodburry I was impressed with this German made film which I found to be superior to its American copy starring Sean Penn later produced.This film is based loosely on a US sponsored experiment in which a prominent psychiatrist ran amok creating a prison in the basement of a noted liberal University. However differing from the real life experiment in which the participants, recruited from students between semesters received rather small emoluments, the movie version claims that the test subjects, recruited from newspaper ads were offered stupendous incentives for their collaboration.The film correctly states that volunteers were assigned roles and that as the experiment went on the participants fell into the roles that were given them. Indeed at one point the 'guards' kidnap one of the staff and throw her behind bars.In this version, a MI undercover agent has been inserted in the scenario in the role of a prisoner to act as a controller. He knows an escape route and can break up the experiment if he has to.There is a feel-good ending in which the mad scientist behind the experiment comes down on charges.In real life that never happened. Jocularly speaking of it a quarter century later, the real life psychiatrist hosted a US sponsored college course on psychology.

imdb-9387 I was excited to see a dramatisation of the famous Stanford experiment, as I've heard a lot about it. This version is set up pretty well, good cast, promising. I was surprised by a couple of odd "plot devices" in the first half hour: odd romantic meetings and high tech gadgets, but still giving it the benefit of the doubt. However, the second half diverts massively from the true story, thereby completely missing the point of this psychological folklore. Especially as I was expecting this to be mostly documentary of the experiment, I was horrified as it drifted more and more into Horror territory. And then a US remake too?!?!?! AVOID!!!!