"Das Experiment"(2001)

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Das Experiment,

I've seen this movie last week; probably many of you have already seen it.
Did a little forum search and there is some little talk about it. So I just thought to bring it back again.

For those of you who have no seen it; it's a very good movie.

A psychological experiment gone horribly awry is subject of Das Experiment, a German film that toes the line between plausibility and dramatic effect. A group of scientists wants to observe what happens to people when they simulate a prison environment for two weeks. They split the volunteers into two groups, prisoners and guards, and set a few general rules [...]

_http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0250258/



Tigersoap wrote: http://www.cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=1279.msg6203#msg6203

I watched the BBC show when it was aired and from what I remember there were tensions but nothing as bad as the SPE.
It was all a 'show' in the end, not a real experiment though.

uhm...maybe they wanted to show that when mundane people are placed in position of power they can't use it and they abuse it unlike the persons in charge of the real thing (governement, police etc...)

That reminds me of this other BBC show called "crisis command" where people like anyone else (which wasn't really true) where placed in charge of handling "crisis" like, for example a terrorist attack, the whole show demonstrated that they could not take the right decisions.
The weird thing is that the show aired in 2004 was about a hijacked plane and subway bombings !!

http://www.ukgameshows.com/index.php/Crisis_Command

Sorry I have digressed...

Still when I heared about Abou-ghraib it directly made me think of the SPE.

Maybe it was the purpose but I can't shake off the similarities.