Also, in the end, the footage from the glasses led to absolutely jack shit so what was the point? Thing is, this movie had to be presented as about believably as possible and in a way they failed because I knew from beginning to end that I was watching a movie and not 'real' characters trying to fight to survive, basically. Also the deal with Tarek and the glasses was just so hokey and I couldn't suspend my disbelief with that silly stuff. The guards are supposed to act like guards and the prisoners treating everything like a joke will just incite them, so I found that to be very stupid.
If you volunteer for something like this, why would you treat it as a joke? You were specifically told that it's supposed to be real. I don't know what it was, I just felt that everyone treating the experiment as a joke (at first) came across poorly. Eventually he was persuaded to come out of his cell and talk to the priest and superintendent so we could see what kind of a doctor he needed.I know of the Stanford Prison Experiment, which this movie is inspired by, and I thought that it would make a great movie if it was done right and for a while there I was really hating this movie, just hating it. The only prisoner who did not want to speak to the priest was Prisoner # 819, who was feeling sick, had refused to eat, and wanted to see a doctor rather than a priest. The experiment was supposed to last two weeks but was discontinued after just six days. The goal was to see if personality traits in prisoners and guards could lead to power abuse in prisons. The movie, and the book that inspired it, is loosely based on the real-life Stanford prison experiment conducted in 1971. All the test subjects discover how easily violence and cruelty can manifest itself in human behavior.
Another participant, Barris (Forest Whitaker), embraces his correctional officer role with a vengeance, and before long, the prisoners find themselves at the mercy of their keepers. Unemployed Travis (Adrien Brody) enrolls in a psychological role-playing experiment, where participants assume the identities of inmates and prison guards in an empty jail, with the promise of a $1,000-a-day reward.
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