Experimenter
Michael Almereyda dissects the life and work of controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram in a highly stylized biopic worthy of its subject.
Experimenter
In 1961, social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducted the "obedience experiments" at Yale University. The experiments observed the responses of ordinary people asked to send harmful electrical shocks to a stranger. Despite pleadings from the person they were shocking, 65 percent of subjects obeyed commands from a lab-coated authority figure to deliver potentially fatal currents. With Adolf Eichmann's trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram's Kafkaesque results hit a nerve, and he was accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster. EXPERIMENTER invites us inside Milgram's whirring mind, beginning with his obedience research and wending a path to uncover how inner obsessions and the times in which he lived shaped a parade of human behavior inquiries.
Genre
Bio-pic,
Drama,
History
Language
English
Director
Michael Almereyda
Cast
Winona Ryder,
Peter Sarsgaard,
Taryn Manning,
Anton Yelchin,
Anthony Edwards,
Jim Gaffigan,
Dennish Haysbeert,
Vondie Curtis-Hall
FEATURED REVIEW
Tricia Olszewski, The Wrap
What would it take for an average person to repeatedly harm a stranger with increasingly powerful — and potentially fatal — jolts of electricity? For 65 percent of you, only a polite but firm request by an authority figure is necessary. Michael Almereyda’s “Experimenter” tells the story of the man ...
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