The film is adapted from the 1961 Yale University power obedience electric shock experiment. The Experimenter raised the punishment voltage uncontrollably, and the voltage has already exceeded the limit of human beings. As long as every ordinary person obeys the rules, he may unconsciously become a killer, and Professor Stanley Milgram began to doubt human nature. Ordinary people are just puppets manipulated by others. After thousands of experiments, 65% of the people chose the punishment of pressing 450 volts mercilessly, and nearly 35% chose to be dissatisfied with the laboratory staff, but finally chose to compromise. This data surprised the professor, so he began to doubt the scientificity of the experiment. After improving the method, he experimented again, but got almost the same result. He learned from it that human nature is actually like this.
Experimenter movie plot
2022-04-04 08:01
Extended Reading
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Katherine 2022-04-24 07:01:26
Perfect except for being a bit neurotic
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Jaylen 2022-04-24 07:01:26
The content of the film echoes its title. On the one hand, the experimenter refers to the protagonist in the film, and on the other hand, it also reflects the experiments of various photographic techniques in the film. (It's breaking the fourth wall again...) Unfortunately, the script is a bit out of touch. After the blockbuster opening, the theme keeps getting higher and higher, and the ending is a little confusing.
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[last lines]
Stanley Milgram: Alexandra Milgram, Sasha, continues to live in the apartment we shared in Riverdale. Our children live with their children near Boston and Toronto. Sasha never remarried.
Stanley Milgram: The obedience experiments are cited and discussed in nearly every introductory psychology textbook worldwide. My obedience film is screened for every incoming class at West Point. And my methods and results continue to be challenged, scorned, debunked, yet every time a new outrage is unleashed into the world, sanctioned and systematic acts of violence, the obedience experiments re-enter the conversation, re-framing unanswerable questions.
Stanley Milgram: You could say we're puppets. But I believe that we are puppets with perception - with awareness. Sometimes we can see the strings and, perhaps, our awareness is the first step in our liberation.
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Stanley Milgram: There was a time, I suspect, when men and women could give a fully human response to any situation, when we could be fully absorbed, in the world, as human beings, but more often now people don't get to see the whole situation but only some small part of it. There's a division of labour and people carry out small, narrow, specialised jobs and we can't act without some sort of direction from on high. I call this the agentic state. The individual yields to authority and in doing so becomes alienated from his own actions. The agentic state is 'store policy', it's 'I'm just doing my job', or 'that's not my job', or 'I don't make the rules', 'we don't do that here'. 'just following orders', 'it's the law'. In the agentic state the individual defines himself as an instrument carrying out the wishes of others - a soldier, a nurse, an administrator, an actor, a corporate employee, or even, yes, academics and artists.