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Experimenter (2015)

Experimenter (2015)

Drama History

Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.

Release Date: 2015, October 16
Directors: Michael Almereyda
Countries: United States of America
Production: FJ Productions, BB Film Productions
Cast: Dennis Haysbert, John Leguizamo, Mamoudou Athie, Danny A. Abeckaser, Donnie Keshawarz, Emily Tremaine, Taryn Manning, Peter Sarsgaard, Kellan Lutz, Josh Hamilton, Betty Gabriel, Winona Ryder

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.

Keywords:

biography breaking the fourth wall controversy experiment psychology