Experimenter

Experimenter

  • Director: Michael Almereyda
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: October 16, 2015
  • Aspect ratio: 1.78 : 1
  • Also known as: Experimenter: The Stanley Milgram Story
  • "Experimenter" is a biographical film released in the United States on January 25, 2015, directed by Michael Ameda , starring John Peter Sarsgaard , Kellan Christopher Lutz , Winona Laura Horowitz and others.
    The film tells the story of Professor Stanley Milgram's electric shock experiment at Yale University. 

    Details

    • Release date October 16, 2015
    • Production companies BB Film Productions, FJ Productions, Intrinsic Value Films

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $155,575

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $8,682

    Gross worldwide

    $224,145

    Movie reviews

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    • By Zelda 2022-04-07 09:01:06

      Personal Critics-UKeham

      Personal Critics-UKeham
      Criteria: [A. Boring; B. Fine; C. Nice; D. Great ].
      Personal rates: B.
      Brief: Telling about several experiments conducted by a psychology professor at Yale University in 1961. One of the most important and controversial is the process and follow-up of the electric shock experiment. This experiment shows the obedience of human nature and the banal sins. The overall film is a bit boring. Base on a story of a famed social psychologist of Yale University...

    • By Gregorio 2022-04-06 09:01:07

      Finished, too lazy to check

      4.5.

      Just a while ago, bbc had an interview with former porn star mia khalifa, in which mia said that the people at the time of the film gave her invisible pressure so that she had to continue filming, in fact, this is the same as the experiment of this film, in many cases You are actually free, you can choose to refuse, but many people have been taught that way since childhood, obedient and obedient, dominated by the fears imagined by the subconscious, and the people who domesticate...

    • By Gabe 2022-04-04 09:01:08

      Everyone is the subject, and every day is in the experiment

      After watching the film, I suddenly found the answer to many things in life. Why do you want to get married when you reach a certain age? Why get married and have children? Why work hard? Why listen to the teacher? Why follow the rules? In fact, these are all like the experimenter in the elevator who saw others facing the wall and turned to the past, and the line experimenter who echoed the public and answered the wrong answer. Many people obviously don't want to get married, but why do we just...

    • By Demetrius 2022-04-04 09:01:08

      obey

      For some reason, I thought of "Compliance".

          Sometimes we can't explain these weak, dark parts of human nature, and even though many people later fall into self-blame and remorse, at the time, they were lambs to be slaughtered.
          
          Or wonder why only that electrical engineer would say no? Just as we scoff at the victims who have been deceived by incomparably inferior deceit, I don't know what the experiment is ultimately pursuing. All these debates, discussions, and...

    • By Hugh 2022-04-04 09:01:08

      Academic movies are like eating chaff, whether you like them or not.

      Doing academia is very boring, uninteresting, bland, like eating a mouthful of steamed bread, just a mouthful of food, without any superfluous novelty and ups and downs.
        A lot of reviews and media think the film is bland, excuse me? Do you think it's fake when it's vigorous, and you're bored when it's mediocre? Comment for comment's sake, you're not a troll?
        Science is bland, and what we have to do is to feel the power in this blandness. Combining academics with films that are now...

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    • By Adrian 2023-07-30 08:01:25

      Psychology is very interesting, but this can hardly be called a movie. It seems that I want to make a biography, but it is too far. The background special effects are worse than the 5-hair special effects of domestic TV dramas. What does the elephant mean? 2.5...

    • By Stanford 2022-10-04 09:00:56

      like a stage play. The old goddess is also a...

    • By Rudy 2022-04-24 07:01:26

      The weakness of human nature, ashamed to talk about it, this may be taboo for those who oppose...

    • By Jamaal 2022-04-24 07:01:26

      It has the feeling of a documentary, but it is not as rigid as a...

    • By 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...

    Movie plot

    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...
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    It is not very accurate to say that the film is a biopic, because half of the film is a serious discussion of the experimental results and the ugly struggle of human nature. At the end, Milgren also has a long monologue, to the effect that human nature will one day be. Break the rules and liberate your nature. It also abruptly raised the film's intentions by a lot. The other half of the time, "Experimenter" is more devoted to trivial...
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    Movie quotes

    • Stanley Milgram: There are times when your life resembles a bad movie, but nothing prepares you if your life actually becomes a bad movie.

    • 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 labor, and people carry out small, narrow, specialized jobs, and we can't act without some kind 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.

    • Stanley Milgram: I hit this line about child development. It's the specific point when the growing child is able to recognize a gap between what exists and what might exist. And it occurred to me, we choose our reality when we choose another person.

      Alexandra 'Sasha' Milgram: What does that mean? Marriage is not a fantasy.

      Stanley Milgram: No, no, no, right. Right. But it is a choice. You have to know that I choose you. Every day I choose you.