"I wanted to hear from those people," Eisner told Ars. "They were very hard to find. Most of them were still only known by alias or by prisoner number." Eisner persevered and tracked most of them down. "Every single time they picked up the phone, they were like, 'Oh, I'm so glad you called. Nobody has called me in 50 years. And by the way, everything you think you know about this study is wrong,' or 'The story is not what it seems.'"
Her original intention was to debunk the experiment, but over the course of making the documentary, her focus shifted to the power of storytelling. "Even when stories are riddled with lies or manipulations, they can still capture our imagination and play a crucial role in shaping our understanding of human behavior and ethics."
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