What the 2012 Film “Compliance” Teaches Us About Compliance.
Are We All Capable of “Just Following Orders”?
2012 film “Compliance” is based on a series of crimes called “strip search phone call scam”. I strongly suggest watching it for insights into what has been happening the last 3 years.
Without revealing too much about the plot, the film is about a manager of a fast food restaurant receiving a phone call from a man identifying himself as a policeman. The cop, actually a pervert proceeds to order the manager to take an employee into a back room and strip search the girl... and much worse.
The film explores the psychology of compliance that gives a lot of clues to why so many people believed what they were told by fake “experts” like Bill Gates. It also gives a timeline of what happens as the scam becomes more obvious, when the artifice of the scam collapses. What happens in the mind of people who are complicit in horrible crimes when they come face to face with that reality?
The fact is, most of us went along with the Covidian narrative until we figured out we were being hoodwinked on a massive scale. For me, it was about a month (I will have more to say on my personal history of the Covidian Age in the near future). Many people are still enthralled by the narrative. However, there is a point on that timeline where it should have been obvious what was really happening. There is another point on the timeline where people were asked to do horrific crimes and they complied without protest… and in many cases with sadistic eagerness.
Many people committed horrible crimes at the behest of truly evil scam artists and they are just waking up to that horror… and they will live with nagging self-recriminations until their dying day.
"Compliance" is a great movie. I suggest a few more:
"The Stanford Prison Experiment" (2015)
Based on the infamous true story, which also inspired the German film "Das Experiment (2001)" which was remade in the US as "The Experiment (2010)." The 2015 is most true to the actual events.
"Experimenter" (2015)
A biopic based on Stanley Milgram, who conducted the 1961 "Milgram experiment" at Yale in the early 1960s. A documentary film, "Obedience," was made by Stanley Milgram, who tested his subjects to measure how far ordinary people would go to obey authority figures and inflict pain on people.
The question is always "How did the Nazis do it?" And the answer always seems to come back: "It was easy."
This is such good writing. Succinct, clear and incisive. Thank you.