First Trailer For Psychological Drama EXPERIMENTER
The Stanford Prison Experiment wasn't the only film centered on psychological experiments to play at this year's Sundance Film Festival. Peter Sarsgaard stars in Experimenter as Stanley Milgrim, the famous psychologist whose 1961 experiment tackled the idea of how far people would go because someone in a position of perceived authority asks them to. It's a fascinating experiment, and along with The Stanford Prison Experiment and the story of Kitty Genovese (as recounted in The Boondock Saints), you'll have a trifecta of the most important things I learned in my Intro to Psych class during freshman year of college.
Experimenter arrives in theaters on October 15th.
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.
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