3 Movies on Netflix That Explore Anti-Authoritarian Themes
The Experiment
This movie tells a story that is based on the Stanford prison experiment, where random people are paid to participate in a behavioral research experiment concerning prison guards and inmates. This movie does a very good job of portraying the process of the inmates becoming increasingly dehumanized. The guards start out as easy going but quickly grow into their roles as violent oppressors. This movie is so great because it is very believable. The experiment prison cultivates the same atrocities found in modern prisons like institutionalized rape, gruesome and sardonic meals, solitary isolation and medical negligence. The rules of the experiment substitute for the laws that justify our prisons. The movie has a great ending as well. There is one scene that makes an Aryan Brotherhood guy look like a hero, that wasn't too cool. Perhaps they were trying to show him renouncing his racism and fighting along side the other prisoners.
This is a German sci-fi flick with subtitles. Its a story in the future of a conservative, rich, old white couple who take part in a new medical procedure that transfers their consciousnesses into younger bodies. The donor bodies are migrant workers from impoverished Africa and Asia. The donors families are supposed to receive large sums of money for the young donor. The donors do not die however, they become awake for 4 hours a day, where they find themselves imprisoned in someone else's mansion and are not allowed contact with the outside world. The movie deals themes such as the rich exploiting the poor, closet racism, and accepting your own limitations and being at peace with age.
Shadow (2009)
WARNING: IF YOU DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GORE AND HORROR MOVIES, DO NOT WATCH THIS!! This movie is f'd up, and I mean SERIOUSLY f'd up! It makes movies like Friday 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre look like Teletubbies. I can't go into too much detail without spoiling the movie but I included it in here for two reasons, because surprisingly it has a very strong anti-war message and the torturer mimics techniques pioneered by states like Nazi Germany and North Korea. If your stomach can handle the imagery long enough to interpret the meaning behind it the movie becomes a powerful symbol of military atrocities specifically the Iraq War.
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