2016-07-10

experimenter

[IMDB] [Amazon]

stanley milgram's experiments are pretty monumental, but you have almost certainly already heard of them and the controversy around them.  so this movie did not add a whole lot in terms of new information or a new angle on an existing story.  the main thing i thought it was trying to add was some form of symbolism in the choice of using photographs of backgrounds instead of backgrounds and an apparent attempt to show many scenes in such a way as to make the viewer watch from behind a partition.  i guess they wanted to evoke the feeling of distance, watching from behind a 1-way mirror, like milgram did, or from behind a camera, as he also did.  and then they intentionally broke that distancing by having milgram directly address the camera and voiceover.  whatever it was they were trying to do, it did not quite work.

experimenter gets two wrong answers.

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