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Experimenter

Experimenter
Drama, History, Biography | 2015 | PG-13. 1hr 30min
CAST: Winona Ryder, Taryn Manning, Peter Sarsgaard DIRECTOR: Michael Almereyda ONE DAY ONLY

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.


Join us for a discussion following the 6:45 PM screening led by Corey L. Cook, Ph.D., Lecturer of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington Tacoma.


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Reviews
Michael Almereyda dissects the life and work of controversial psychologist Stanley Milgram in a highly stylized biopic worthy of its subject.
Scott Foundas, Variety
The word reflective suggests a slowdown or cessation of action proper, but Experimenter is busily, thrillingly reflective. Its artificiality makes it seem even more alive, more in the present tense.
David Edelstein, Vulture
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