Experimenter
2015·Movie
·1h 37min·
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Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
Psychological ExperimentSocial ComplianceAuthorityEthical DilemmaHistorical StudyMoral ResponsibilityExperimental FilmMeta-Narrative
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Directed by:
Michael Almereyda, Sasha Vitelli, Heather Quick
Written by:
Michael Almereyda
Produced by:
Danny A. Abeckaser, Billy Hopkins, Michael Almereyda
Composed by:
Bryan Senti, Timmy Quinn
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