Konterr Brilliant and touching

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

Allison Davies The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Lela 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.

Gordon-11 This film tells the story of a psychological experiment that goes horribly wrong.It is fascinating to see the change of the psychological state of the participants. The film captivates and portrays the atmosphere very well. The things depicted are horrible, but entirely believable given the circumstances.

santiagocosme I heard of the real events of the experiment many years ago, and I always felt curious about what had really happened. Only recently did I decide to watch the movie. Although it is clearly not shot by the best technicians and directors around, and it has a TV movie feel, there's no denying that the story is so crazy that you cannot help but to be gripped when you discover the events that took place in Germany over a decade ago. As a social experiment, it has an extraordinary value. You are made to learn the extent of how humans operate depending on the circumstances that surround them and especially the amount of power that they have been handed. The scary thing is that you cannot help but realize that it could have been you. You could have been as cruel as any of the guys that humiliated the "fake" prisoners. This sort of experiments help better understand group behaviors and how to handle societies at large. Truly a must-watch movie. Not so much for its cinema value, but for the content of it.

AterAlbus To begin I am going to say that "Das Experiment", a film from Germany, is in fact based on actual events, even so don't expect so much realism in the film. I know this had to be made in order to add tension and entertainment to the film, etc. But believe me, when a story is already interesting it is better not to change it."Das Experiment" begins when Tarek Fahd, a taxi driver, discovers an advertisement in the newspaper in which people will be paid 4000 German marks by participating in a experiment for 2 weeks. The experiment consists in a simulated prison, in which 12 of the 20 participants will assume the role of guards and the rest will act like prisoners, who have to be oppressed and controlled, but with the only condition of not recurring to violence. All of this is made in order to investigate the human behavior in a different environment and under the control of an authority. At first the prisoners, aware of the fact that is just an experiment, take their roles lightly, as well as the guards. But as soon as the guards lose the control of the prisoners they begin to embody their roles, as if they were real guards and in a number of days everything becomes chaos.The suspense in the film is effective and at the first minutes the events are well presented, but early in the film an unnecessary subplot is developed in which Fahd, after a car accident before the experiment, meets a woman called Dora. When the experiment starts Fahd can't stop thinking about Dora and she can't stop thinking about him. In my opinion this adds nothing fundamental to the plot, but seem more like the typical cliché in which romance is involved but not important to the story.Another problem I had was the character development. About Fahd we only know that he works as a taxi driver and wants to win some money (not just by participating in the experiment but by filming everything for a newspaper). In the rest of the film, and considering the amount of characters, no clear motivation is given to each character to behave like they do, and there is also the fact that the guards become very quickly in sadists. In the final act, when all is chaos, characters' actions become exaggerated in comparison to the real events, and the movie starts to feel like a typical thriller as the final events unfold.But all this aside "Das Experiment" proves to be an effective, though average thriller, with good acting, full of thought-provoking questions and critiques (in some sense), and with a good and interesting story. Anyways I have to admit that when the film finished I got the feeling that reading the original story was more entertaining that watching the film.My Score: 7.1

TheExpatriate700 Das Experiment (The Experiment) is a decent psychological thriller loosely based on the 1970s Stanford Prison Experiment. It follows the travails of failed journalist Tarek Fahd as he attempts to reinvigorate his career by joining and secretly documenting a prison simulation experiment. What follows is a descent into violence.The film is at its best when it examines the psychological degeneration of the experiment's participants. Initially charming guards, such as an Elvis impersonator, It is no coincidence that this is a German film, as there is a heavy emphasis on how ordinary men can degenerate into sadistic monsters. The Third Reich parallels are made explicit when one prisoner calls a particularly brutal guard a "dirty, rotten, stinky, Nazi." It is arguable that Hannah Arendt should have been given writing credits.The film suffers in its latter half, however, from an all too typical degeneration into action movie clichés and violence, with the film losing all sense of verisimilitude. (Particularly given the fact that in the actual Stanford Prison Experiment, students who played prisoners became submissive, not aggressive.) Furthermore, the film includes an all too typical romantic angle that distracts from the psychodrama. These flaws mar what could have been a far better film.