He and Travis are soon locked in a battle of wills, the two leaders trying to rally their troops as a war threatens to break out. But since we already know that Barris has some Norman Bates-like issues, we aren't quite as shocked by his transformation (but that boner he gets after exerting his newfound power? Yeah, didn't see that coming.). That doesn't sit well with the guards, who soon find an unlikely leader in the mild-mannered Barris (Whitaker). As the rules start to be broken (subjects must eat all of their food, address each other by numbers, never touch the guards and speak only when spoken to), the threat of violence escalates-which would end the experiment and the payout. If a prisoner does break the rules, you will have 30 minutes to choose proper disciplinary action." But as the subjects are divided into two camps, the prisoners start to question the study as some of the guards begin to exert their authority a little too enthusiastically. "This experiment is not about individuals," the guards are told. See, we all have breaking points, and Travis may just be a hippie liberal hypocrite ("War is in here," says Bay, pounding her heart so true, honey.so true!). The two lovebirds have just met at a peace rally where a fight breaks out, causing Travis to raise his fist to defend her honor in another one of those "statement scenes" that foreshadows things to come. Since Travis (Brody, taking over for the great Moritz Bleibtreu) just lost his job (the German film's subplot with the protagonist being an undercover reporter has been dropped here) and wants to head to India with new girlfriend Bay (Maggie Grace in a role greatly diminished from the German film), he sees the experiment as the perfect opportunity. The two play strangers who meet after responding to an ad in the newspaper seeking subjects for a two-week behavioral study with a handsome paycheck. So why, pray tell, did this go straight to DVD? It also has a pretty great cast headlined by the can't-miss combo of Oscar winners Adrian Brody and Forest Whitaker. Director Paul Scheuring (no stranger to jails, he created the Fox show Prison Break) wrote the screenplay for this latest version, which is leaner (running 24 minutes shorter) and a lot meaner. This 2010 American version also lists Black Box as its source, and it's clear the German film has also had an influence. That controversial study-which lasted only six days instead of a planned two weeks-inspired the Mario Giordano novel Black Box, which in turn inspired Das Experiment, the 2001 German film from director Oliver Hirschbeigel (and co-adapted by Giordano). In 1971, an experiment conducted at Stanford University explored the psychological and behavioral impact on subjects assigned to be guards and prisoners in a mock environment. The film likes to hammer home repeatedly (starting with the opening credits) that we're all just animals.and who's to say we wouldn't do the same thing as those Abu Ghraib soldiers? (Hell, even one of the production company placards before the film is for Natural Selection!)
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That's because ultimately, The Experiment-despite its source material and its attempts at drawing powerful parallels to current events-feels like a Fight Club video game adaptation, not a "statement" movie about the nature of man and his propensity for violence. The sticker is fitting, and should help you keep your expectations in check. The first warning sign was that little sticker on the plastic wrap of the DVD box, a little fist punching me in the face and ordering me to go to Sony's site, where a bigger fist was waiting to punch me in the face again as I perused it's testosterone-rich offerings. "It don't matter how evolved you think we are.you lock up any animal long enough, and the strong gonna eat the weak.
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