This is based on a true story. Back in the 71 Stanford ran a psychological "study" on how humans conform to roles. Okay so you have a study being conducted that people are going to pay you to participate in if you are selected. 26 men. About 8 will given the roll of prison guards in a mock prison set up by the researchers. The rest of the men are given the title prisoner. You have 5(five) rules to follow if you are are prisoner and 5 to enforce if you are a guard. 2 weeks and you are $14,000 richer. The stage is set.
Oh, don't let me forget if one of the rules are broken the guard MUST inflict a punishment within 30 minutes of the incident or the experiment is over.
Now with $14,000 at the end of 2 weeks you would think that this shit would involve some hustlers in it who would do what the fuck they gotta do to get that 14 grand with with ease and as smooth as possible. Well that had to be fucked up (of course, there wouldn't be a reason to make this movie without conflict).
Adrien Brody is given the title of prisoner and Forest Whitaker is given the title of guard. Now I won't say who's fault it was but these 2 guys really blossomed into 2 assholes in this experiment. Brody was the initial asshole and him being a prisoner on top of being an asshole was too much for Whitaker. Whitaker quickly pegged Brody as the ringleader after Whitaker rose to the Alpha Male among the guards and it was downhill for Brody.
I wont say all the blowed shit that occurred in this movie but I will say these muthafuckas forgot they were regular people in this "experiment". 2 days into this shit it became evident to me that this experiment wouldn't last the whole 14 days because of certain personalities/egos were in conflict.
Good movie check it out.
My critique:
4/5
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