Illusion sets the stage. Deception reveals the truth.
Yale University, 1961. Stanley Milgram designs a psychology experiment that still resonates to this day, in which people think they’re delivering painful electric shocks to an affable stranger strapped into a chair in another room. Despite his pleads for mercy, the majority of subjects don’t stop the experiment, administering what they think is a near-fatal electric shock, simply because they’ve been told to do so. With Nazi Adolf Eichmann’s trial airing in living rooms across America, Milgram strikes a nerve in popular culture and the scientific community with his exploration into people’s tendency to comply with authority. Celebrated in some circles, he is also accused of being a deceptive, manipulative monster, but his wife Sasha stands by him through it all.
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- Renoon TMDB · May 20166/10
> A tale of the man who gave a breakthrough in the human psychology. A movie about the experiments on the human behaviour and for us, there's nothing in it but to study those characters along. This is more a documentary than the cheerful characters and the story with a twist. So forget it if you are looking for an entertainment film. Based on the true story of an American social psychologist Stanley Milgram. The film narrates the story of his controversial experiments and personal life that takes us back to the 60s. Not all the discoveries were accepted in its first revelation. Sometimes it takes time to realise its benefits like perhaps this one. The film was boring because it was a drama about an important turning point in the human psychology. So all the major parts of the story were just talking and it never required physical stretch from its characters like running and chasing around. If you're interested in psychology and its related stuffs, then you might like it. Besides, the romance was a small part of what the film was focused on as its title mentioned. It does not mean I dislike it for not enjoying. In fact, I would have rated it better only if it was a documentary film.
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Cast
- Peter SarsgaardStanley Milgram
- Winona RyderAlexandra "Sasha" Milgram
- Jim GaffiganJames McDonough
- Edoardo BalleriniPaul Hollander
- John PalladinoJohn Williams
- Kellan LutzWilliam Shatner
- Dennis HaysbertOssie Davis
- Danny A. AbeckaserBraverman
- Taryn ManningMrs. Lowe
- Anthony EdwardsMiller
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- Michael AlmereydaDirector
- Michael AlmereydaWriter
- Ryan SamulDirector of Photography
- Bryan SentiOriginal Music Composer
- Kathryn J. SchubertEditor
- Uri SingerProducer
- Michael AlmereydaProducer
- Danny A. AbeckaserProducer
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