The Experiment (2010)

This was a thought provoking flick. I felt what an animal man is. How easily he forces violence upon himself one way or the other. If you intimidate him, if you instigate him, if you add that fuel to the fire, he’d know no limits and would succumb to violence. The flick is an obvious depiction of the fact. There is hardly anything that can stop him from fighting for long. While the scientists tried to experiment by enticing them with a whole bunch of green and with the tinge of fear of losing it all in a jiffy the moment there were some serious injuries, every man decided to go along with the flow. Although the movie was a remake it was smooth.

Adrien Brody did a great job being the protagonist in the movie and supporting the right throughout the movie while facing some weird consequences in the long run. Forest Whitaker, on the other hand, plays the character which seriously needs a rehab as he starts to take things a lot more seriously right from the start. Prestige, dignity and humiliation were some of the main things all he could think of, the moment he was put in the shoes of a cop. While the downside of the movie was that Adrien Brody had to face piss and shit while he could do nothing but hold a grudge against Whitaker while he had the time of his life. While Whitaker enjoyed his gala-moment throughout the movie with him and with the rest of the prisoners (which weren’t many as the others had no self-respect apparently) getting what his psycho-brain wanted him done without any serious rebel from Adrien, the flick sympathizes with the character of Adrien. Money does that to you? What a dishonour he brought to himself. For Christ’s sake if there was someone else in his place he would’ve kicked Whitaker’s ass there itself.

Well overall the movie was good. There were certain demeaning moments in the movie but that’s okay coz it hardly mattered when there is someone else taking the shit and not you. The movie could’ve been made better although the concept rattled me, a better direction would’ve blown me away.

I would give it a 6.5 on 10 considering the good story it entailed. It is certainly a good one with some great performances by Whitaker and Adrien although I am told the original was better.