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Director: Michael Almereyda
Writer(s): Michael Almereyda
Cast: Winona Ryder, Taryn Manning, Peter Sarsgaard
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.
“Experimenter‘s most striking quality is the way it encourages us to think deeply, from the first frame to the last…” -Stephanie Merry, Washington Post
“Fascinating work by Michael Almereyda, a mix of audacious artifice, ruminations and reality.” -John Anderson, Newsday
“Seemingly loose and free-associative in style, Experimenter builds to an effect and, for all its humor — or rather, through its humor — makes a sober and chilling point.” -Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
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