Movie Review — The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)

The Stanford Prison Experiment is a 2015 American thriller film directed by Kyle Patrick Alvarez and written by Tim Talbott. The film stars Billy Crudup, Ezra Miller, Olivia Thirlby, Nelsan Ellis, Ki Hong Lee, Tye Sheridan, Miles Heizer, Michael Angarano, Jack Kilmer, and Nicholas Braun.

The moment the writer watched this movie, the writer really enjoyed. For her opinion, college life was impressive. Perfect place to do all the thing in your head. Theories, experiments, social, we try to do all the things based on science, wordly. In the facts, we aren’t into it. We forgot that emotions, feelings, human errors, preferences. All those things lead us into highly subjective and also feel us alive, real alive. One strong reason the writer’s writing this, all because we are college student freely have their rights to explore more. Instead of doing our duties.

In this case, the writer try to explore the story of the film. Eventhough, the writer seems not to explore or spit the shits, just give the big picture opinion of her.

Basically, the film set out in 1971 with all they needs framings, settings, conditions. Mostly they took simple angle. Strictly, they set them out in that era. The writer value it based on her opinion, surely.

Then, the story was very simple where the psychologist teacher did their research. It totally described the process of his research. It told us, the background of their objects (volunteers), the scene of their experiment, how to they end their experiment. They used the story based on the facts, their true story.

The story tells the teacher’s doing their researcher about human behavior. Especially, authority user and how the institution effect to their role in some case. They set on the prison. How they use their status to run their function from their roles.

And the background of their objects (volunteers). They are students who mostly searching the money to fill the summer holiday. The writers think that their objects never make an assumption for long term. They do not know what they do, they think it was easy one, just take a role prison or guard in their story. But the story, it didn’t explain the easy one for them. They only need the money.

It didn’t run as well as they imagined. Some toke a role as prison with crime case, some took a role as guard in simulation prison. The things they had to do, roling their status in that experiment. They had to run it naturally, they had to use their status as their identity. Until by the time, their new identity become their real identity. They didn’t realize what they did, was only the part of experiment. They forgot them. As the big picture. It taught us like it when the film ended.

In the other side, the writer think that experiment is good thing. But not really good thing at the same time. This film taught us a lot or well-educating being for me, people, society. It helps us to see how people acts and uses their authority as well.

I learnt that people can easily forget that others are human -Movie