"The Push"- Movie Review

As you all know, i am a huge fan of movies and series that have something to do with psychology and that teach us something in the end. After making a list of my favorite movies and series that i usually see to clear my mind when i am having a bad day, today i present to you a very good one. "The Push", by Darren Brown. This movie is basically an experiment where the magician and UK tv mainstay uses the power of social compliance and careful manipulation, to try and persuade pre selected members of the public to push literally a person off the roof. Did this really happened? You have to watch the movie to find out!!

This experiment is very important to psychology because Darren Brown uses a lot of persuasion tricks to make people do what he wants. One of them it is called the "foot in the door", when you first ask the subject for a small favor, and because people tend to be consistent, they will be more likely to comply with your target request later on. In this case, push a person off the roof.

According to Peter de Vries, a psychology teacher, it is important to remember that the participants were specifically selected because in a seemingly unrelated test taken quite some time before "The Push" they'd exhibited a high level of social compliance. There is therefore the question to what degree these results hold for the general population. That 3 out of 4 participants did it, doesn't mean that 75% of population would do the same thing. However, the main point that Brown aims to make stands that ordinary people sometimes can do horrible things.

So, as i am a psychology lover, i really loved this movie, as it is a very successful experiment, but also because it is very interesting to see how the human min acts under pressure and under the effect of manipulation and social conformism. If you have 2 hours in your day that you can spend, you must see it, but first you can see the trailer!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doFpACkiZ2Q&ab_channel=Netflix