Review of The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) by Ydnar4 — 12 Nov 2015

The young cast of prisoners and guards were outstanding in this film. Many of the young actors in the film were familiar faces but very few of them have proven themselves. The cast of young men includes Ezra Miller, Moises Arias, Nicholas Braun, Logan Miller, Tye Sheridan and Thomas Mann. All of which deliver some of the best performances of their young careers. The highlight of the whole cast however was Michael Angarano, who becomes the most demanding and abusive guard of them all and becoming an easy character to hate. It is thrilling to watch the transformation of the characters over the course of the experiment where the identity is taken away from the prisoners through a number of methods and the guards go through effort to hide their true identity by hiding behind sunglasses and baton.

Billy Crudup is great in this film as well. Phillip Zimbardo is one of the of the most knowledgeable but controversial psychologists of all time. Crudup also begins to see and change in himself as the film continues on. Crudup once again gives a brilliant performance.