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Horror fan 4 @Horrorfan4life 02/08/2025 A very interesting story full of different experiences while volunteering to be part of behavioral experiments. A very well made movie with good performances. Tim Treakle See more j15j15j15 j @J15cTell 06/05/2024 ▣ https://band.us/band/89487216/post/12 @}>--->>* See more Diana S @DianaWho 05/17/2024 A low-key film on a timely subject. I found the asides to the camera a bit annoying by the end. Also, I don't find the question Milgram asked so confounding. I saw a video of wolves robotically howling in response to other wolves howling, and I thought it was a perfect parody of humans. We aren't solitary creatures. We want to play a role in a community, and that instinct most often usurps our gift of higher reasoning. See more Jerod S @jeroduptown 11/20/2023 Experimenter's subject is intriguing even if its delivery is rightfully dry. Not sure how else social experiments could have been made into a more effective or compelling movie... See more Gareth v @geewah 06/23/2023 A solid telling of one of the most infamous pyschological studies ever conducted. See more Taylor L @RT77267842 01/30/2023 Back when he had hair, Peter Sarsgaard seemed like the dramatic version of Joel McHale to me. Don't know if it was the slightly similar voices or what. Experimenter is a biopic focusing on social psychologist Stanley Milgram, the famous and somewhat controversial organizer of experiments dealing in human obedience, which drew parallels to the choices made by thousands of supposedly reasonable people as they participated in atrocities such as the Holocaust. The film follows the creation of the original Milgram protocols, the responses to them by researchers and the public, and Milgram's own later work, told in a fourth-wall-breaking format that sees Milgram (Sarsgaard) frequently narrating his own experiences or speaking directly to the audience. The film gives particular priority to discussing the implications of the psychologist's work, and the unsettling notion that most people value conformity over compassion. As a discussion of the experiments themselves, Experimenter is pretty well done and Sarsgaard feels well-cast, though the meta elements (an elephant following him around intermittently, an 'elephant in the room'?) and the intentionally distant, academic dialogue may seem to be more alienating than insightful; for all the posturing, there isn't much more said beyond 'humans can behave far worse than we might like to admit'. Winona Ryder's character sort of slips into the background, and an interesting take on Milgram - where at points people around him can't tell whether he's being sincere or subjecting them to a social experiment - is never expanded upon. Dennis Haysbert gets dressed up in an Einstein wig, though. (3/5) See more Read all reviews

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