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Winnifred 2022-04-04 08:01:01

Serious biographical film about the life of Migram, the founder of the obedience experiment. Rigorous and plain narrative style, interspersed with life clips, test setbacks, and evaluations by others. The experiment is very interesting, recruiting volunteers, asking questions to the subjects, getting the wrong electric shock, gradually increasing the power according to the wrong number of times, and finally reaching 450 volts that the human body can't bear. The volunteers were all good citizens, and the subjects were staff members who were arranged to receive no electric shocks, just yelling or pretending to faint. The vast majority of volunteers hesitated, asked to stop, suffered, and sweated during the experiment, but in the end they all executed the instructions without being coerced, and used the maximum amount of electricity for the subjects, even if they already knew the subjects. Can't make a sound, can't answer questions. Only one of the volunteers was furious during the experiment and categorically refused to continue the shock. (This is 0%. The ratio of 1 I think is the fire of Prometheus) and then concluded that human nature has the instinct to obey, even if there is no threat of violence, people in their work will separate me from my work, so that they can Explain why so many ordinary Germans were involved in the slaughter of Jews, who had no problems with their personal morality (also covered in The Reader), the one who sent thousands of innocent Jews away Eichmann, the gas chamber executioner, did not consider himself guilty when he was tried, he was just completing a work order. Almost all ordinary people think that they will not hurt others, but the results of the experiment are surprising. There is another experiment in the film. Of the six people, five are staff and only one is a volunteer. To give a line drawing, just point out two lines of the same length. The five people gave the wrong answer, and the volunteers followed suit. This is herd mentality. The mentality of obedience and the mentality of conformity lead to a collective unconscious state, and the famous "The Crowd" and "1984" expounded on a similar problem. However, the experiment is widely controversial, the deception in the experiment (if the experiment is not deceived, and the subjects are directly told that they will not be electrocuted, how can it be carried out) and the conclusion (humans cannot accept their ugly face is the cause of The root of ugliness) hurt the experimenters and the general public, and Migram failed to secure a lifetime seat at Harvard. (It turns out that the love of positive energy is not unique to us.) From this, I thought of a small thing. Before I went to Germany this summer, my best friend asked me if I should bring a parasol, and I said, or I will get a tan! My best friend said, but foreigners don't hold umbrellas, they don't care if they get tanned or not. I said: But why should we be like them? From this, I thought of the paramilitary management that our system is proud of. Obedience and unity are the essence. However, during the non-war period, have we questioned and reflected on whether it is a blessing or a tragedy to sacrifice independent will and self-judgment? The darkness and cowardice in human nature are difficult to explore. The male protagonist always frowns and smiles in the film. Let's end with his sentence: "You can say that we are all puppets, but I think we have Puppets of thinking ability and consciousness, since we realize that we are under control, then perhaps independent thinking ability is our first step towards freedom!" May I myself be a little closer to freedom and be more brave in the new year . #The world is a theater# Let’s end with a sentence: “You can say that we are all puppets, but I think we are puppets with thinking ability and consciousness. Since we realize that we are controlled, perhaps independent thinking ability is the first way to freedom. One step!" May I myself be a little closer to freedom and a little more brave in the new year. #The world is a theater# Let’s end with a sentence: “You can say that we are all puppets, but I think we are puppets with thinking ability and consciousness. Since we realize that we are controlled, maybe independent thinking ability is our first step towards freedom. One step!" May I myself be a little closer to freedom and be more brave in the new year. #The world is a theater#

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  • Virgil 2022-04-05 09:01:07

    Always love this experiment, it shows you where the cruelty of human nature can go. / The scene where the stranger met in the elevator before the party was very interesting. / The art style is reminiscent of the American drama "Master of Sexology". / Winona Ryder has aged too much, but her acting is still precise and subtle. / Fake and real scenes, and talking to the camera are annoying and maddening. / The whole film is like a running account

  • Laurianne 2022-04-06 09:01:07

    Biopics with too many explanations are indeed a bit nondescript, more like a Yale open class, talking about psychological experiments.

Experimenter quotes

  • [last lines]

    Stanley Milgram: Alexandra Milgram, Sasha, continues to live in the apartment we shared in Riverdale. Our children live with their children near Boston and Toronto. Sasha never remarried.

    Stanley Milgram: 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 violence, the obedience experiments re-enter the conversation, re-framing unanswerable questions.

    Stanley Milgram: You could say we're puppets. But I believe that we are puppets with perception - with awareness. Sometimes we can see the strings and, perhaps, our awareness is the first step in our liberation.

  • Stanley Milgram: There was a time, I suspect, when men and women could give a fully human response to any situation, when we could be fully absorbed, in the world, as human beings, but more often now people don't get to see the whole situation but only some small part of it. There's a division of labour and people carry out small, narrow, specialised jobs and we can't act without some sort of direction from on high. I call this the agentic state. The individual yields to authority and in doing so becomes alienated from his own actions. The agentic state is 'store policy', it's 'I'm just doing my job', or 'that's not my job', or 'I don't make the rules', 'we don't do that here'. 'just following orders', 'it's the law'. In the agentic state the individual defines himself as an instrument carrying out the wishes of others - a soldier, a nurse, an administrator, an actor, a corporate employee, or even, yes, academics and artists.