Talking about human nature and life

Elsa 2022-04-04 08:01:01

Before watching the movie, I was familiar with Milgram's obedience experiment. I thought it was a processed drama similar to "Death Experiment". I never thought that the first scene at the beginning was an identical electric shock generator. The accomplices all looked exactly the same as the one in the experiment, and I understood that this was a documentary-style film. And when the director finished the obedience experiment in the first half hour with super restored brushstrokes, I really understood that this is actually a biographical film. "The Experimenter", what matters is not the experiment, but the person.

There will always be a group of people who are keen to delve into people's hearts, challenge people's sensitive nerves, dedicate themselves to breaking plausible illusions, and spare no effort to uncover the many barriers that hide hidden truths. They are social science researchers, and people call them crazy. the scientist. They are under questioning and pressure, confronting the Virgin Mary, and taking care of people's glass hearts who don't want to face the dark side of human nature, it's really hard. However, what makes truth and science shocking is precisely the challenge of turning a blind eye to habit, common sense and all kinds of habits. Like the elephant in the room, silence will not make it disappear, but reminding its existence will be criticized. , so most people are silent, but there are always some people who are brave enough to stick to their mission, just like these respectable scholars.

Milgram's compatriot and colleague, another great social psychologist, Aronson, once said: "Every outstanding social psychologist lives in the currents of society, and they are obsessed with studying the How are they affected and changed by social life, and they themselves most fully embody this influence and change, which makes their lives full of great attraction to ordinary people, and their attention to human behavior makes them themselves The behavior of the people seems to be particularly strong and unique." "The Experimenter" is the best interpretation of this sentence.

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Experimenter quotes

  • Stanley Milgram: 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.

  • Stanley Milgram: Human nature can be studied but not escaped, especially your own.