The Experiment - My first TV role

Hoping to watch it tonight @ChrisR777 so I will report back tomorrow. Your comments about the Milgrim experiment and Stanford experiment have got me very intrigued to watch it.

Netflix have just released a new 6 part show recreating the Stanford Prison experiment…I'm not sure how it goes but I feel like it's something that potentially didn't need recreating😅 But it will be interesting to see if there is any difference in behaviours and if knowing that they were going to be on a TV influences behaviour compared to the original experiment.

What do you think about recreating the experiment?

I can only advise, based on my experience, not to identify yourself with your role, to treat filming as an ordinary job. For screenwriters and directors, in fact, it does not matter whether the actors are alive in their subordination, painted images or puppets. These are tools for them, like a truck for a driver.

I've watched this now. Wow!

I think it said a lot about what people expect in disability care environments. Things like putting disabled people in a dorm, calling it a 'Nest' and then suddenly it's a cute and cosy way to live and saving money for the tax payer. "They look happy and well fed" and that's fine despite a clear lack of choice or freedom. Scary stuff!

I almost thought that the experiment wasn't going far enough at one point, but then they went into the room about sterilisation and onwards from there. Horrific!

I was so glad to see that some people did speak their minds and saw through it. And that it helped people to question how they've been thinking after the reveal. What an important piece of television.

Congrats again @tommy2k17, must have been a difficult thing to take part in, but such an important subject.