Literature Questions Based On Readings

In the movie, the behavioural experiment is done without any criminal record of volunteers. The movie has no logic because the guards and criminals are given the role just for the money. The movie can be better if the behaviour of the guards is good with the prisoners to make the behavioural experiment successful. The movie contains violence, beatings, rape, and murders which is never happened in real life. The film showed the behaviour of police with the prisoners which are destructive for society. The prisoners are treated like animals and they show the feelings of depression and mental torture. The film has no logic and it is an illegal experiment to do in the film because anyone can start its own business where the prisoners are treated like animals. This is not acceptable in society. Every movie has negative as well as positive aspects but this movie has only negative aspects. They are guiding the guards to behave like animals with humans and in the movie, they beat prisoners without any cause and criminal record.

The movie has a scene in which the girlfriend of Travis wants to visit India just for the entertainment and Travis has no money to support her so he decided to risk his life for his girlfriend who has no serious mission in her life. This shows that the desires of the girlfriend are more important than his life is also a negative aspect of the film.

Another phase of the movie is the behaviour of guards and prisoners. The prisoners are given no civil rights and the prisoners must clean their food plates otherwise they will have to face mental torture. The prisoners are locked in cells in which they face the rapes, violence and mental torture by unauthorized guards.

There is nothing which is shown as positive aspects like treating the criminal according to its criminal record. The whole movie is a view of unethical behaviours by the guards. They are constantly beating the prisoners for the sake of money. Many people are shown who get murdered and mentally tortured. They became the psych patients and starts fighting with the guard and war has created between them. The film promotes the wars between guards and prisoners in a jail. In the end, the film promotes that the killings and murderers can be done easily just for the money makings.

Most of the prisoners experienced bursts of crying, screaming, and aggression. This supports how the prisoners faced severe torment and lost the ability to control their emotions. Moreover, Zimbardo’s role in the experiment became too intermixed. He was the experiment leader, but also the “prison warden” and that made some problem as he beats the prisoners for no reason. There is no logic of film because it is only about the abuse of prisoners and movie showed that anyone can create an unethical situation to earn money whether it is helpful or dangerous for the people. The behaviour of the warden is very harsh he educates the guards to humiliate the prisoners.

It can be concluded that the movie has no theme and it only showed unethical behaviour towards the human.