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The Stanford Prison Experiment
Drama, History, Thriller
In 1971, Stanford's Professor Philip Zimbardo conducts a controversial psychology experiment in which college students pretend to be either prisoners or guards, but the proceedings soon get out of hand. Based on a true story.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers drawn to psychologically gripping true-story dramas about power, group behavior, and the dangers of unchecked authority.
- Tone
- tense, bleak, cerebral
- Payoff
- unease, reflection
- Pacing
- steady
- Intensity
- intense
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- authority, conformity, dehumanization, ethics of research, institutional abuse
- Setting
- early 1970s, simulated prison in an institutional research facility
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