“Experimenter” quotes
(2015)
Title Experimenter
Year 2015
Director Michael Almereyda
Genre Drama, History, Biography
Year 2015
Director Michael Almereyda
Genre Drama, History, Biography
Plot – In 1961, the social psychologist Stanley Milgram conducts a series of controversial behavioral experiments at Yale University. The tests involve common people, who are asked to send an electric shock of progressive intensity to a person tied to a chair in another room. The purpose of the experiment is to understand how authority conditions humans. One day Milgram meets Sasha, a former dancer who lives in New York. He begins to woo her and takes her to visit his laboratory at Yale, where experiments have meanwhile produced shocking results.
All actors – John Palladino, Anthony Edwards, Jim Gaffigan, Peter Sarsgaard, Harley Ware, Winona Ryder, Jason Black, Kyla Haggerty, Danny A. Abeckaser, John Leguizamo, Donnie Keshawarz, Minnie
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“I've done some psych experiments, but in my mind I'm still about to write my great Broadway musical.”
“How do civilized human beings participate in destructive, inhumane acts? How was genocide implemented so systematically, so efficiently? And how did the perpetrators of these murders live with themselves?”
“Human nature can be studied but not escaped, especially your own.”
“The experiment taught me something about the plasticity of human nature. Not the evil, not the aggressiveness but a certain kind of malleability.”
I call this "the agentic state". The individual yields to authority, and in doing so becomes alienated from his own actions.
“The experimenter told the subject to perform an action. What happened between the command and the outcome is the individual, with conscience and a will, who can either obey or disobey.”
“We are double in ourselves. What we believe we disbelieve, and we can not rid ourselves of what we condemn.”
“I believe we are puppets with perception, with awareness. Sometimes we can see the strings. And perhaps our awareness is the first step in our liberation.”
“Do you ever feel invincible in one moment and then worthless the next?”
“Common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities.”
“Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.”
“Why is defiance the anomaly instead of the norm?”
“The obedience experiments are cited and discussed in nearly every introductory psychology textbook worldwide. My obedience film is screened for every incoming class at West Point. And my methods and results continue to be challenged, scorned, debunked, yet every time a new outrage is unleashed into the world, sanctioned and systematic acts of...” (continue)(continue reading)
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