Movie Kolrus - Battle of the Decades - The Conclusion

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Das Experiment (The Experiment) 2001
Dir: Oliver Hirschbiegel

Heard of it - Yes
Seen it - No

My Rating: 6  IMDB Rating: 7.7

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250258/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0




Synopsis [Courtesy of IMDB]

For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.

Review

Interesting idea apparently based on true events. I thought the acting and direction were good. I thought though that the actions of the characters were not really true to life. Now that is fine in movies if you are making something fictional though based on true events I just wonder how much of it was made up. I haven’t read the story so I could be talking complete nonsense. It does get pretty gritty in the 3rd act. I think there was an American remake of this starring Adrian Brody, can’t remember too much about it though I know I’ve seen it. A decent pick and one I wouldn’t have watched otherwise.

Trivia

Although no one died in the Stanford Prison Experiment on which the movie was based, the experiment was prematurely ended after six days out of a planned two weeks. The college students assigned (randomly) to be prisoners were "withdrawing and behaving in pathological ways" as a result of the degrading treatment they received. Quite a few scenes in the movie actually happened in the original experiment, including the early fire extinguisher scene and the prisoners being forced to clean the toilets by their bare hands.