The Experiment
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Movie Reviews of The Experiment
Movie Review: Well Done
Summary: 4 Stars
This film is based on the Stanford Prison Experiment conducted in 1971 and the first part is somewhat faithful to how the experiment went. Of course this gives it the German Avant-garde treatment which makes it more interesting. The acting was good, especially Moritz Bleibtreu from Run Lola Run, and the others did a good job. Of course conducting this with Germans where study participants who play the "role" of guards quickly transform into fascists has an extra meaning. I thought Maren Eggert was good as Dora, Tarek's girlfriend. And contrary to some reviews the Dora element really added a lot to this film. I felt solidarity with the "prisoners" as they are humiliated and abused more and more as the film goes on. And what happens to the psychologists running the Experiment could be considered poetic justice. The ending was over-the-top, but it worked as a film. And just think of what actual prisoners have to endure every day. I think the wider point is the human rights issue. Here in the US we have millions of people imprisoned, dehumanized, with no real rehabilitation, and we're all the worse off for it. One thing this (as well as the actual experiment) shows is we shouldn't let Psychologists control things either...because that industry is one of dehumanization in itself (drugs, coercion, institutions, etc.) What we need is a world run by human rights activists.
Movie Review: A 4½ STAR REVIEW
Summary: 4 Stars
One of the most violent films ever produced, German THE EXPERIMENT deals with the effect of an experiment gone wrong. An undercover reporter (Moritz Bleibtreu) goes for the shock value when he passes himself as a prisoner to a mock prison detention program where all of its participants are guinea pigs. To the joy of Big Brother doctors, all hell breaks loose in no time. Loosely based on a true-life case scenario depicted in the book Black Box by Mario Giordano (who also co-wrote the screenplay), THE EXPERIMENT will please those looking for big thrills. Director Oliver Hirschbiegel delivers an outstanding movie in which psychological humiliation and physical violence take center stage. All of the actors involved do a magnificent job, especially Justus von Dohnanyi as the shy introverted guard who soon becomes the leader of the pack. His love-to-hate-him performance is as riveting and as disturbing as the film itself. THE EXPERIMENT is a hard film to swallow but one that dares not to be missed.-----Martin BoucherMovie Review: What men can do
Summary: 4 Stars
A truly scary reflection of the way a small amount of power, in this case being made a Prison Guard, can change normal people into monsters - or so it would seem. However what I gathered from the film was that the experimenters knew that the two leading protaganists would end up at each others throats. Perhaps not literally but they were chosen with that in mind.
Obviously there has been quite a bit of spicing up of the original Stanford case and the addition/distraction of the gorgeous girlfriend seemed a little out of place as well. However the film is very well directed and equally well acted. After the initial setup the tension is gradually racked up until in the second half of the movie you realise that things are spiralling out of control.
So its a riveting watch, but not a film I will want to see again quickly as it is a sad reflection on our humanity (or lack of it).
Movie Review: Experiment in prison becomes all too real!
Summary: 4 Stars
An advertisement invites men to volunteer to take part in an experiment. They say no one will get hurt and their cameras are on twenty-four hours a day. out of a group of men, some will be prison guards, the others prisoners. Those as the prison guards must not play guards, but be real guards. They do and they get too caught up in the prison play. The "prisoners" must fight back. The experiment becomes real. This film contains male nudity and some female nudity.Movie Review: Subtitles aren't bothersome.
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very good movie about a group of 20 guys who volunteer to be in an experiment where half of them are prisoners and half of them are guards. It is in German, with English subtitles, but you get used to it. The guards go a little power hungry and things get out of hand. Bleibtreu is a cool actor, maybe he'll make it Hollywood someday. Great movie but I don't think it deserves a 7.9/10 as on IMDB. I would rate it a 7.5/10.