hashem
8th April 2013, 15:07
“Compliance” is a movie about submission to authority. Its story takes place in a fast food restaurant. a stranger calls the restaurant and claims that he is a policeman. He tells the manager that a girl who works there has stolen money from a customer and she is being pursued by police. He says that if the worker is not able to prove that she hasn’t the money with her, she goes to jail and the only way to make sure she hasn’t the money is a strip-search! Both manager and worker believe him and do what he says. The man makes more indecent demands but no one questions him because they fear his authority. people involved either become agents of his authority or just step aside and make way for it. Worker is reduced to a slave (or worse!). Finally after she is abused in many ways, one person refuses to obey the immoral requests of the caller and his refusal leads to revelation of callers identity. its revealed that the caller is not a policeman at all! He is just a hoaxer who has been playing with lives of people, but nearly everyone respected his false authority and obeyed him. At first obedience is not willingly and its caused by fear (treat of arresting them) but later they are willing to cooperate and somehow become proud of themselfs not only because the fake policeman encourages them, but because he shares his authority with them (he lets them command, misbehave and abuse the worker). Even the victim who started cooperating because of her fear, after a while actually feels guilty and at one scene she even accepts that she is disobeying and agrees to be punished for it! The person who revolts is not more intelligent or educated than other characters, he simply stands against what he believes is oppression.
The story of this movie is true and has really happened in USA in 2004. However I should warn that it also contains some repellent scenes.
You can find more information about it in this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliance_(film)
After seeing it, i thought its story is what happens everyday on a much greater scale. Billions of people blindly follow authorities which ask them to do things against interests of their own. Think about religion for example. Religion is an authority as well. Sometimes its authority is put into action by force and sometimes its just in peoples imagination. But either way, its requests are sometimes more indecent than the hoaxer in the movie. Religions ask us to kill other people for their believes or take away their rights because they are female or … while there is no reason to believe that people who claimed to be prophets of god centuries ago are more trustworthy than a man who claims to be a policeman on the phone!
The story of this movie is true and has really happened in USA in 2004. However I should warn that it also contains some repellent scenes.
You can find more information about it in this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compliance_(film)
After seeing it, i thought its story is what happens everyday on a much greater scale. Billions of people blindly follow authorities which ask them to do things against interests of their own. Think about religion for example. Religion is an authority as well. Sometimes its authority is put into action by force and sometimes its just in peoples imagination. But either way, its requests are sometimes more indecent than the hoaxer in the movie. Religions ask us to kill other people for their believes or take away their rights because they are female or … while there is no reason to believe that people who claimed to be prophets of god centuries ago are more trustworthy than a man who claims to be a policeman on the phone!