Each director is represented by my favorite one of their movies. [13], Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View, https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/feature/2015-11-09-interview-with-harold-takooshian-about-stanley-milgram-and-experimenter-feature-story-by-anne-katrin-titze, "Sundance 2015: Michael Almereyda's 'Experimenter' slyly delivers jolts", "CINEMATIC EXPERIMENTS: MICHAEL ALMEREYDA IS BACK WITH HEADY PSYCH DRAMA EXPERIMENTER", "Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder Board Indie Drama 'Experimenter, "Kellan Lutz, Taryn Manning, Anton Yelchin Join Cast of 'Experimenter' (Exclusive)", "On The Set For 6/9/14: The Septembers of Shiraz Starts, Jennifer Aniston Starrer 'Cake' Wraps", "Sundance unveils Premieres, Doc Premieres", "Peter Sarsgaard's 'Experimenter' Bought by Magnolia for U.S. (EXCLUSIVE)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Experimenter_(film)&oldid=980013996, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles containing potentially dated statements from June 2020, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 24 September 2020, at 03:12.

Every Movie I've Ever Seen Ranked From Favorite to Least Favorite, letterboxd.com/malaine/list/film-poster-deja-vu/, letterboxd.com/malaine/list/film-poster-deja-vu-part-three/, Films with mental health themes [public]. This FAQ is empty. Experimenter is based on the true story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey by using electric shock. But I’m also very good at following orders and doing what I’m told, that’s why employers want me to work for them. "A darker comedy, indeed one that Kubrick might have envied, Michael Almereyda’s Experimenter is a spare, formally ingenious biopic about Stanley Milgram, the Yale social psychology professor who in 1961 concocted an experiment that demonstrated that obedience to authority overruled morality and empathy in a large majority of his subjects." Second viewing, no change. An ordinary-looking guy proves to be an unusually successful womanizer, and his East Village apartment begins to assume aspects of Grand Central Station. this one starts out interestingly enough detailing the life and work of Stanley Milgram and his well-known but controversial social psychology experiments in the 1960s. But then the film loses its foundation in its second half, making its final act a bland turnout.

It makes sense of course, but it was cool to learn more about him and what he was about and went through. [9] On March 26, 2015, Magnolia Pictures acquired distribution rights to the film. Not a biopic but an essay film as much on the art(-ifice) of filmmaking as its named subject (see that arguably inaccurate, insistent subtitle). [8], The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 25, 2015. 2015 Sarsgaard is very good too, ageing a fair bit during the course of the film, and the distinct dearth of non-work scenes feels very much on point as we get the sense that Milgram was a man married to his work. I would love to get violently stoned with Peter Sarsgaard. Fascinating story. See photos of celebrities like Scarlett Johansson and Leonardo DiCaprio before they hit the big-time, and revisit their earliest onscreen roles. “Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”. we immediately witness him conducting one of his most famous experiments to test obedience to authority whereby a subject administers progressively stronger electric shocks to another subject when they get answers to questions wrong. Less a biopic of Stanley Milgram and more a reenactment of his behaviour experiments in the 1960s and a look at the controversy they sparked, 'Experimenter' offers a fascinatingly detailed account of contemporary history while also raising several intriguing questions about the way we as human beings function.