Experimenter
(2015)
★ 6.5 IMDb · 498 votes
Year: 2015
Runtime: 90 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Michael Almereyda
Cast: Питер Сарсгаард, Вайнона Райдер, Джим Гэффиган, Эдуардо Баллерини, John Palladino, Келлан Латс, Деннис Хэйсберт, Danny A. Abeckaser, Taryn Manning, Энтони Эдвардс
Plot
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.