Experimenter
2015·Movie·
·1h 37min
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About
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.
DNA
- Themes
- Click below to reveal spoilersThe Human ConditionLove And SupportEthical DilemmasCompliance To AuthorityThe Cost Of Science
- Plot
- Click below to reveal spoilersMedia InfluenceHistorical ContextPersonal CrisisLove And MarriagePsychology ExperimentsEthical ImplicationsDeception In ResearchNazi Trials
- Costume and Set
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No sequels or prequels available
Crew
Directed by:
Michael Almereyda, Ryan Samul
Written by:
Michael Almereyda
Produced by:
Danny A. Abeckaser, Michael Almereyda, Fabio Golombek
Composed by:
Bryan Senti
Cast
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