The Stanford Prison Experiment

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Call Number: Blu-ray Drama Stanford
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Pittsfield Branch, Traverwood Branch

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Based on the true story, "The Stanford prison experiment."
Widescreen.
Billy Crudup, Michael Angarano, Moises Arias, Nicholas Braun, Gaius Charles, Keir Gilchrist, Thomas Mann, Ezra Miller.
Stanford University professor Dr. Philip Zimbardo, who, in 1971, cast twenty-four male student volunteers as prisoners and guards in a simulated jail to examine the source of abusive behavior in the prison system. The results astonished the world, as participants went from middle-class undergrads to drunk-with-power sadists and submissive victims in just a few days. Based on a true story.
Blu-ray, widescreen presentation; requires Blu-ray player.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Good submitted by andye on August 4, 2019, 12:30pm Liked

Should have been better submitted by Will O on August 30, 2020, 10:48am This should have been a lot more interesting given that it's based on a true story but it was both too long and repetitive in that it kept just showing the same sort of scenes over and over to the point where it ran together and also didn't go into enough detail about anyone beyond the experiment.
I think it went too broad for me and it would have been more interesting if there had been more of a main protagonist on the prisoner side where we follow them before the experiment so we get to know and empathize with them and what they go through during the experiment. Or be with Zimbardo more beforehand so we can see the gradual decline and how it gets so out of hand without him realizing it. But because there isn't anyone to really root for or connect with at the start but especially toward the back half the emotional impact got kind of diffused for me and I wasn't as invested as I should have been given how interesting this was on an intellectual level.