The message of the movies should be: Every man is capable of violence, oppression and humiliation. It should not be saying: Maniacs and psychopaths are capable of violence, oppression and humiliation. I think that weakens the message of the movie. So in the movies there are psychopaths, Nazis, misfits and even an emo. They stopped the experiment at a earlier stage, but they were right at losing control. So that's why this study had such a big impact. The difference to the movie experiment is, that they originally used completely sane men. The original experiment was the Milgram Experiment, which was in the 60s if i recall correctly. In fact this movie is better in some ways, like the acting of Forest Whitaker, which reminds me like a evolution from a stay-at-home-dude to his interpretation of Idi Amin.īut the movies share a big problem. I wouldn't call all Americans dumb because they remake foreign movies.
Reviewed by fpollinger 6 / 10 Important Message, but a movie with flawsįirst off: I am German and i've seen the original Das Experiment many years ago.
