If it were an independent film, I would give it a higher rating. But unfortunately, this is a remake of the eponymous German film and it is made for unknown reasons. Almost everything in the film remains the same, almost all scenes are parallel. Slightly expanded the beginning and end of the film, they became a little more semantic load, but not so much to shoot a remake and show the viewer the same. The film is only for those who have not seen the original. There were also oddities - in the original at least explained why the authors of the experiment did not intervene in time - the subjects overestimated the scientists, the head of the project generally did not follow what was happening and missed when the chaos began. Here it is not reflected at all, and therefore this side simply does not look convincing. Nor do I believe that the perpetually downtrodden and humiliated Negro hen-heeled man suddenly took over and became the chief sadist – it’s not even that I don’t believe in his cruelty, but that he became a leader among the guards. I couldn't. In the end, he killed the comic bookist with a baton, what did he do? The scientist went to trial, and the negro comrade received an envelope with money. There is too much fabulous in the film, although it is made for real reasons.
From Wikipedia. The Stanford Prison Experiment.
Participants were recruited by a newspaper ad and offered $15 a day (inflation-adjusted equivalent to $76 in 2006).
For Westerners, this is pocket money. It amazes me how students at a prestigious university could agree to this.