Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment
- Original title
- Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment
- Year
- 1992
- Running time
- 52 min.
- Country
- United States
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Documentary
- Genre
- Documentary | Half-length Film
- Synopsis
- It's important not to think of this as prisoner and guard in a real prison. The important issue is the metaphor prisoner and guard. What does it mean to be a prisoner? What does it mean to be a guard? And the guard is somebody who limits the freedom of someone else, uses the power in their role to control and dominate someone else, and that's what this study is about. In the summer of 1971, Philip Zimbardo, Craig Haney, and Curtis Banks carried out a psychological experiment to test a simple question. What happens when you put good people in an evil place-does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? To explore this question, college student volunteers were pretested and randomly assigned to play the role of prisoner or guard in a simulated prison at Stanford University. Although the students were mentally healthy and knew they were taking part in an experiment, some guards soon because sadistic and the prisoners showed signs of acute stress and depression.
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