Overview
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.
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Movie title: Experimenter
Movie description: 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.
Date published: 2016-01-09
Director(s): Michael Almereyda
Actor(s): Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan, Edoardo Ballerini, John Palladino, Kellan Lutz, Dennis Haysbert, Danny A. Abeckaser, Taryn Manning, Anthony Edwards, Lori Singer, Josh Hamilton, Anton Yelchin, Adriana Randall, Donnie Keshawarz, Michael Siberry, Ned Eisenberg, John Leguizamo, Harley Ware, Jason Black, Kyla Noelle, Minnie, Tom Farrell, Xavier Fan, Craig De Lorenzo, Emily Vere Nicoll, Gary Shteyngart, Abe Altman, Paul Lazar, Gameela Wright, Pascal Yen-Pfister, Mark Elliot Wilson, Lucy Fava, Jude Patrick White, Emerson Rosenthal, Betty Gabriel, Tom Bateman, Diego Cortez, Emily Tremaine, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Harold Takooshian, Jicky Schnee, Karl Geary, Tom Roma, Emily Nicole Hansen, Bay Bryan, Derek Chadwick, Adrian Centoni, Anthony Gallino, Cecelia Gray, Nina Hausner, Clara Lipfert, Natalia Miranda Guzman, Benjamin Russell, Jon Steiger, Justin Cass, Dean David, Aaron Dalla Villa, Robyn Michele Frank, Sakura Lin, Michelle Martinez, Martin Mundzik, Chris Nester, John Pinerio, Thomas Ahlers, Kerry Johnson, Spencer Kennedy, Sam Lipstyle, Joel Milgram, Alex Provan, Anna Thorngate, Dustin Yellin, Michally Kaiyalethe Diamond, Piibe Kolka, Robert McDonough, Alexandra Milgram, Lucas K. Schlenk, Mamoudou Athie
Genre: Drama, History
My Review
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My Review - 6/10
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