The film is full of sociological concepts. From the beginning, the guards were given weapons in the form of batons. Weapons are usually a sign of power especially over unarmed opponents. Prisoners were stripped naked a few times during the movie. At the start of the experiment, the prisoners were told to shower naked in view of everyone. This along with using numbers instead of names and dressing them in smocks were the start of the dehumanizing process. Like Berus said, humiliation did work in g
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