What the point of the whole experiment was is never revealed at all. A voice over says that the lead researcher on the project was arrested and charged with manslaughter for the death of Benjy. The company had “loose ties to the government,” and Travis was caught on camera saying that they would testify in court.
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The end of the movie shows that there is a news report on the test. They are given their $14,000 checks on the bus. Finally, the alarms go off, signaling the end of the experiment.Īll of the fighting immediately stops as the gates are opened, and everyone still alive walks outside and waits for the bus.
Barris follows.Īll of the inmates catch up with the guards, and begin to beat them. All of the remaining guards tell Barris they are done and begin to run for an exit. Using everything they can get, the inmates begin to break down the door to the guard’s office. They find Benjy dead.Ī full-scale riot starts. One by one, then run and unlock all the prisoners from their cells. He finds a guard about to rape am inmate and they knock him out and steal the key. Benjy punches Barris in the back of the head, and he responds by clubbing Benjy over the head with the baton, cracking his skull and causing him to begin having a seizure.Īll of the inmates are separated and locked in different rooms.ĭay six, Travis breaks out of his cell. Barris pulls him from the fence and slams him to the ground. Travis yells to a camera that he is finished, but nothing happens. The inmates begin to become insubordinate, all of them stripping out of their prisoner uniforms at the same time. In addition, he is stripped of his guard status and is made into a prisoner. They drag the beaten guard out as an example, showing the inmates that they can use violence and nothing will happen. Yet again, a rule is broken, and nothing happens. They take Travis into the bathroom and constantly dunk his head in the toilet as punishment for trying to bribe a guard.ĭay five, the guard that tried to get the insulin has a bag thrown over his head by the other guards and is beaten with batons. The guard leader, Barris (Forest Whitaker), allows the dying inmate to have the insulin (once again breaking the rules, and once again nothing happens). Within two days, he’s beginning to die, but the experiment is not called off and the guards cannot give him the insulin because of the “nothing from outside world is allowed in” rule.ĭay four, Travis bribes a guard into trying to steal the insulin from the bag to save the inmate. In addition, one of the inmates lied on his application. Despite warnings that if anything violent happens the experiment will end, nothing happens and nobody stops them. Fearing that they will lose their 14,000$ pay check if there is a riot among the prisoners, they tie Travis (Adrien Brody) to a chair, shave his head, kick him to the ground, then several guards urinate on his face.
Within two days, the guards are doing horrifically cruel things to the inmates. The experiment is not ended, even after the 30 minutes pass. The guards are also warned that if an inmate breaks any of the rules enforced on them (clean their plates, don’t talk unless spoken to, exercise for 30 minutes a day, never touch a guard, nothing from the outside world is allowed in) and are not punished for it within 30 minutes, the experiment will end and all money will be forfeit.Īlmost immediately, the “don’t touch a guard” rule is broken, and an inmate touches the guard. All of the subjects are warned that if there is any physical violence that the experiment will be shut down and everyone will forfeit all of their money (14,000$ for two weeks). When they arrive at the compound, it is revealed that 8 of them will become prison guards, and the other 18 will be inmates and this will last for 14 days. All they are told before hand is that some will be stripped of all civil rights, some will not. The experiment’s purpose is never explained.In the end, Travis, for no explained reason, moves to India with the girl he met only days ago.Ģ6 men sign up for a scientific experiment. Benjy dies inside, and the lead researcher is convicted of manslaughter.
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After six days, a full scale riot breaks out, and the experiment ends. After two days the guards turn violent and dehumanizing towards the inmates.