Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Clarissa Mora The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

Imme-van-Gorp I think this movie was extremely interesting and I also found myself being very invested in the characters' developments. I was really rooting for the prisoners and wanted to kick those guards' butts.The thing that sort of annoyed me though, was that we never got to see how prisoner 8612 and 819 responded when they got released. I actually really wanted to know what their reaction was after they went outside and realised everything was an experiment (since they both started to doubt their sanity) and that they were free. I think it would have been very interesting to see that.7/10. -Imme van Gorp

jtncsmistad The question you will be continually asking yourself while watching the docudrama "The Stanford Prison Experiment" is this: "Why in the HELL don't these kids posing as the incarcerated just say, "F it, man! I'm OUTTA here!" And then the more disturbing question emerges. Why on EARTH did the bulk of them EVER choose to stay?

grizwald-31458 The Stanford Prison Experiment movie portrays a real-life event instigated by the psychology department of Stanford University.In essence, the department decided to conduct a social experiment within which a bunch of students would be contained within a mock prison and would either take the role of prisoner of prison officer.The students were made to 'become' the role, and the movie covers the progression of how each student morphed into the mentality of either prisoner or police officer. It gets very brutal, and is somewhat amazing that it was ever allowed to take place past the first day (it lasted 6 days instead of the planned 14).The movie is historically accurate and does a great job of installing a sense of claustrophobia and a fear in the viewer. Upon viewing, some of the scenes seem far-fetched, but quick research will tell you that the scenes were based on actual events.A movie that will keep you gripped and appalled simultaneously.

abelew-56369 (I don't think I actually reveal a spoiler, but just in case)Highly gripping and something about the 70s visuals as incredibly real looking (I imagine).I have a number of qualms with it, most notably the study leader. An issue others point out. As well as a lack of development or explanation on the guards, especially the 'quiet' ones.Perhaps some of it was due to the 60s just ending, or the selection of the actual participants, but I can say without a doubt that I would have acted very, very, very differently than those selected. For various reasons (experience/knowledge of jail, law, individual rights), mostly liability and that I've had the opportunity to be the only one in large groups to not be brainwashed/convinced I'm wrong.That is really my biggest qualm, I find it very hard to imagine people allowing themselves to be abused so easily and to not physically take control of their lives over the captors. Guards/Warden, etc.I mean, it's 3 guys to a 'cell', which does not have anything besides a cot. No water. No toilet. No tp, it seems. Something as simple as going to the bathroom is not addressed until about 70% of the way through the movie.Anyways, now to experience other media productions, and the real footage!