The Experiment
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Christian Berkel, Moritz Bleibtreu, Oliver Stokowski, Stephan Szasz, Wotan Wilke Möhring DVD: Region Code 99 Audio: English (Subtitled); German (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1 Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 119 minutes DVD Release Date: 2003-07-01 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: Sony Pictures |
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Movie Reviews of The Experiment
Movie Review: The feel good movie of the year!!
Summary: 3 Stars
LOL, okay maybe not the feel good movie of the year. "This movie is a trip" said the Blockbuster clerk when I was buying this, and yeah I agree. I don't know quite what to make of this movie. I have my undergraduate degree in psychology so I'm familiar with some historical psychological experiments gone wrong. In addition to the psychology experiment many of the reviews reference that took place in 1971 @ Stanford there have been other experiments conducted that show how shockingly horrible humans are capable of acting when given power over others. When you think about how something like this is not only completely possible but goes on every day in every country in one way, shape or form, then the movie becomes less enjoyable. Plus, I could have done without all the male nudity - where's the women's prison version?! ;)
At least the movie was not grotesque. I was concerned after I had purchased it that it might turn out to be some torturous gruesome flick, but it isn't. It's more along psychological lines of humiliation, torture and power.
One thing that I thought they missed on this movie was the background of at least the main "prisoner" and the main "guard" which have the power struggle during the movie. It was explained that these two people were selected for the experiment and put on opposite sides because they wanted the confrontation between them, but we don't have any background on their personality development so we can understand why they have fallen into these roles. And the side story we get about the main character's girlfriend is just silly and really adds nothing to the storyline.