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Last week I was reading some random topic @ GoT called “The last movie you have seen” and suddenly my eye fell on some interesting movies. The one is called 21 Grams and the other is called 11:14. I will not go into detail, just watch the movies yourself. I really liked them, also the way in which they were both filmed.

Backward messages in music (commonly known as Backward Masking) have been a controversy ever since the late 60s, when messages were found backwards on some Beatles’ albums that hinted Paul McCartney had died. The controversy raged extensively in the late 70s and early 80s when religious fundamentalists claimed that Satan possessed the minds of singers, causing them to insert messages backwards into albums. As we now know, many of these backward messages were in fact examples of Reverse Speech in music.

Just visit Reverse Speech – Music Reversals to listen the spooky samples yourself.

I saw this movie a long while ago. Recently when I was wandering in Rotterdam I went to the musicshop Sounds, you never know whether there is some (new) interesting music CD to buy there. Didn’t find any intersting CD this time. But in their little DVD-section they have a lot of interesting DVD-movies. This time Das Experiment was standing there, so I bought it.

The movie is based on a real experiment in the past done by the Stanford University. A quote from the Stanford Prison Experiment site:

What happens when you put good people in an evil place? Does humanity win over evil, or does evil triumph? These are some of the questions we posed in this dramatic simulation of prison life conducted in the summer of 1971 at Stanford University.

Definitely worth viewing, because the movie shows you about what happened in the real Stanford Experiment, although not everything is exactly the same as it was in reality.