Review of The Experiment (2010) by Curtis L — 14 Jan 2011

This film wanted to push two ideas: first, is that people can become like animals given the right circumstances. This is true, although I believe it more in movies that present situations of actual prison or war or something that takes at least a couple of months to develop.

I found it difficult to believe that ordinary people can be raping and murdering after 6 freaking days of an experiment. In realilty, they would have all said "Hey, if we just play by the rules for 2 weeks we get 14 thousand dollars".

Also, there is no way the sociologists would have let this go on so long...not sure why they don't interveine the second the black guard guy gets beat up... anyways. The second thing they pushed on is that true ethics comes from within.

That the guy who believed in nothing but himself and hope for human kind (who they thought would make a great criminal due to his lack of religion) turns out to be true to his friends at all times, and the religious black guy (who finds ethics from another source, i.

E. God or a 'red light') goes nuts while thinking he is still in the right. I like this idea, but it seemed pretty black and white. I wish this story happened over the course of several months rather than in 6 days.

It would have been much more believable. I mean really. The guards eventually were doing obviously criminal acts all on camera and you are telling me they don't realize that they will out of there in two weeks.

It's not like a real prison where you can do whatever you want because the priosoners will never get to leave to tell the tale. Entertaining though. Fun to watch. Just be prepared to see Adrian Brody get pissed on.