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| The Experiment |
 'The Experiment' - one of the best German movies ever !!! |
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Inspired by a famous 1971 psychological experiment, Oliver
Hirschbiegel's German-language movie 'The Experiment' finds a group of 20
volunteers randomly divided into 12 prisoners and eight guards and asked to play
out their roles for a fortnight while scientists study their reactions. A
conflict arises between undercover reporter Fahd (Moritz Bleibtreu), a con with
a hidden agenda, and the apparently mild-mannered Berus (Justus von Dohnanyi), a
guard with a megalomaniac streak. The film begins as a psychological drama as
ordinary people settle into the game, with joking displays of resistance by the
"prisoners" greeted with increasing brutality from the "guards," but detours
into suspense and horror as Fahd, who needs the experiment to get out of hand in
order to make his story more saleable, deliberately ratchets up the tension
between the factions only to see the situation spiral nightmarishly out of
control as various test subjects in both camps edge closer to snapping. --Kim Newman / Amazon.com |
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