The Experiment (2001)
You are invited to participate
20 volunteers agree to take part in a seemingly well-paid experiment advertised by the university. It is supposed to be about aggressive behavior in an artificial prison situation. A journalist senses a story behind the ad and smuggles himself in among the test subjects. They are randomly divided into prisoners and guards. What seems like a game at the beginning soon turns into bloody seriousness.
The Experiment keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
WALL·E (2008)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Hunger Games (2012)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Truman Show (1998)alters at E10 · same rung · rigorous
The Simpsons Movie (2007)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
Deadpool & Wolverine (2024)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
Divergent (2014)alters at E10 · same rung · loose
