This is the story of the famous psychological experiment carried out at Stanford University in 1971 where a group of students drew straws to see who were to be prison guards and who were going to be prisoners for two weeks and how the were going to behave when put in their roles. I've seen this experiment replicated before on a channel 4 documentary and it's interesting to watch - This film wasn't' as interesting. You can argue that this experiment was the foundation for a lot of reality TV but the film didn't really work because it was just actors playing the parts . There was very little explanation as to why the experiment was being carried out in the first place and even less on why the students acted like they did. I found this utterly dull and that's unforgivable in a film.
Review of The Stanford Prison Experiment
