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Wow, what a masterpiece!!!

posted 9 years ago by mirogster
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!!!Possible spoilers!!!!

At about 3/4 of the movie, I was asking myself "Wtf Zimbardo?!!!"
But at concluding scenes, my admiration to him grew even more!
I always loved his books and what's he actually doing - discovering human (psychic) nature(& traveling the world giving lectures etc). He and his teams did tremendous job during all those years and experiments.
Huge huge respect for him!!!
And this movie IMHO, did the best job to show the facts as close as they happened. Great movie!!!

[–] DeafTard 9 years ago

When I first read about this real life experiment sometime in 1998, I was just absolutely shocked yet fascinated by it at the same time as well.

Then the first movie about this experiment which was "Das Experiment" aka "The Experiment" was released and I saw it in 2002 I believe. Great film by the way and I highly recommend anyone to see it before watching "The Stanford Experiment" but both films are great in their own way.

I'm just glad that the experiment was ended sooner than later thanks to the wife who told her husband who ran the experiment in the first place to pull the plug on it because I bet he would of kept it going for the full 2 weeks.

[–] Gobobo 9 years ago

Yeah, he did a great job in advancing scientific study, just like the Japanese and Nazis did in WWII.

[–] elgatony 9 years ago

That was the point. That ANYBODY, American, German or Japanese would be corrupted by power and be submissive in the face of authority. That's why none of the guards stood up to "John Wayne" and why the prisoners, once they were broken, never resisted again like they did the morning of day 2. Same thing happens in death camps and prisons all over the world. The shocking thing is how fast these smart kids (who knew it was a fake prison) suddenly believed they weren't going to be set free and how fast they broke.
Also of note is how the psychologists and "guards" managed to fool even the kids' PARENTS. Much like the way the Nazis fooled the Red Cross into thinking everything was basically okay at Auschwitz.

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