Compliance
Italian_Buju
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When a prank caller convinces a fast food restaurant manager to interrogate an innocent young employee, no-one is left unharmed.
Sandra is a middle-aged manager at a fast-food restaurant; Becky is a teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day (too many customers and too little bacon), a police officer calls, accusing Becky of stealing money from a customer's purse, which she vehemently denies. Sandra, overwhelmed by her managerial responsibilities, complies with the officer's orders to detain Becky. This choice begins a nightmare that tragically blurs the lines between expedience and prudence, legality and reason.
Based on true events.
This movie blew my mind....not only was it a true story, which I actually already knew about from CNN, but when they say truth is stranger than fiction, it is SO true....
At the beginning of the film, one can kinda of understand why the manager might follow the orders of who she thinks is a police officer on the phone, take the girl, ask her question, even search her purse and pockets....I would think most people would have to common sense not to do that, but you could at least understand how someone might not. However, when the caller starts asking for more and more inappropriate things to be done to the girl, everyone in their sane mind has to question not only why the manager (and others) would do such things, but why the girl just does not say screw this and leave. I personally would have taken my chances with the police. It begs the question about blind authority and why we are so fast to trust someone we know nothing about. Very reminiscent of the Milgram Experiment....but just as scary.
As far as the actual making of a movie goes, it was well paced and well acted, no time to get bored. Worth a watch.
Sandra is a middle-aged manager at a fast-food restaurant; Becky is a teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day (too many customers and too little bacon), a police officer calls, accusing Becky of stealing money from a customer's purse, which she vehemently denies. Sandra, overwhelmed by her managerial responsibilities, complies with the officer's orders to detain Becky. This choice begins a nightmare that tragically blurs the lines between expedience and prudence, legality and reason.
Based on true events.
This movie blew my mind....not only was it a true story, which I actually already knew about from CNN, but when they say truth is stranger than fiction, it is SO true....
At the beginning of the film, one can kinda of understand why the manager might follow the orders of who she thinks is a police officer on the phone, take the girl, ask her question, even search her purse and pockets....I would think most people would have to common sense not to do that, but you could at least understand how someone might not. However, when the caller starts asking for more and more inappropriate things to be done to the girl, everyone in their sane mind has to question not only why the manager (and others) would do such things, but why the girl just does not say screw this and leave. I personally would have taken my chances with the police. It begs the question about blind authority and why we are so fast to trust someone we know nothing about. Very reminiscent of the Milgram Experiment....but just as scary.
As far as the actual making of a movie goes, it was well paced and well acted, no time to get bored. Worth a watch.
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