Good story, Not enough for a whole film

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

I really can not describe the whole film as I fell asleep and lack the motivation to watch the part I missed. The problem with the film is it is neither a good documentary nor a good film, if it wishes to be an interesting film it needs to inject some pace or drama. The central character breaks the fourth wall and talks directly to the audience, this increases as the film progresses to the point were it is nearly pure narration, the fake backgrounds simply break your involvement with the film. It is a shame as it covers so really interesting points as how far will people go if told to do so by authority, it opens up the debate on how could people conduct the atrocities in concentration camps? did the conductor of the experiment abuse the participates? the more I think about it this would have made a better documentary.

By itself, this is not one of the world's greatest movies. It certainly attempted new venues in making semi-documentaries, and most of it is easily watchable, even humorous at times. But occasionally, things about the life of Stanley Milgram get thrown in at odd angles that don't really support the story, which begs the question of whether or not it would have been better to focus on the experiments, instead of the experimenter.That being said, the punch of the experiments is the thrill here. This is fare for the ones that seek brain-food. If you don't want your little gray cells to feast on a banquet of ideas, look elsewhere. There's not really a lot of anything else at this table.This is a movie that follows (generally) the life of the sociologist Stanly Milgram (played very well by Peter Sarsgaard). The man's main experiment, the Obedience Experiment, is of course his most famous and his most shocking one of the film (and of his life) and it is delivered to us early with the help of Winona Ryder (playing his wife), Jim Gaffigan (playing his partner in crime, so to speak) and even Anthony Edwards (playing one of the experimentees). It is all delivered well enough to ease you into the mind of this man, where his focuses were as a sociologist, and at the same time leaves you uneasy with what it is that he discovered with his work.Winona doesn't bring down the house here, but she does a solid job. Nobody really delivers anything in the realm of amazing here, but that's apparently not the point of the film. Whether or not they intended it, the experiments themselves do all the work of plot, character development, and intrigue that really carries you on throughout the film. The plot of this man's life is ordinary, the path taken throughout the movie is not spectacular. Everything goes back to the experiments themselves, and they are the star of this film. And amazingly, they do their job well.Although you will certainly be amused and enlightened by the lighter, less disturbing experiments done by this man, it will most certainly be the Obedience Experiment that will leave you with chills. The results of the experiment speak to the future generations of humanity, and are frightening to face in the calm, soft-colored palette of the movie. Perhaps it is the weight of that one experiment that carries you through the movie, waiting to see what Stanley comes up with next. Nothing he ever did beyond that first experiment ever compared to it, but the weight of it is/was so heavy that its impact is worth the price of admission.There's not really anything else to say. For the sake of the Obedience Experiment itself and what it means to the people of this planet, at the very least, you should watch it.Even if you decide to shut it off, once Mr. Milgram tries to move on to other things.

Intelligent, challenging, semi-experimental view of psychological scientist Stanley Milgram and his seminal early 60s experiment that proved most people would follow orders that went against all they believe in - and caused them great personal stress - even to the point of believing they were causing bodily harm or death, if they felt it was expected of them and they wouldn't be blamed.Almereyda, long one of our bravest and least conventional film-makers, uses his tendencies to break from traditional storytelling to his advantage here. He breaks our usual illusion of 'reality' in a movie with black and white projections as parts of sets, the main character addressing the camera, sometimes about events that haven't happened yet, and even a (very funny) literal 'elephant in the room'. These playful, Brechtian devices distance us and keep us from emotionally getting lost in the story in the way a traditional Hollywood bio-pic would have us do. But it serves to heighten key intellectual questions about Milgram and his work – which also manipulated reality, and implied a certain artificial distancing between Milgram and the human race.Like a film, Milgram's experiment manipulated people, told them stories, to get them to react a certain way, and Almereyda makes us ponder a lot of these uneasy connections between art and science.Not all of these cinematic gambits work, and sometimes ideas get repeated beyond effectiveness. But I'll take this kind of fresh, jarring approach to looking at a man and the ideas his work over a traditional, shallower Hollywood approach any day.

A movie about the experiments on the human behaviour and for us, there's nothing in it but to study those characters along. This is more a documentary than the cheerful characters and the story with a twist. So forget it if you are looking for an entertainment film.Based on the true story of an American social psychologist Stanley Milgram. The film narrates the story of his controversial experiments and personal life that takes us back to the 60s. Not all the discoveries were accepted in its first revelation. Sometimes it takes time to realise its benefits like perhaps this one.The film was boring because it was a drama about an important turning point in the human psychology. So all the major parts of the story were just talking and it never required physical stretch from its characters like running and chasing around. If you're interested in psychology and its related stuffs, then you might like it.Besides, the romance was a small part of what the film was focused on as its title mentioned. It does not mean I dislike it for not enjoying. In fact, I would have rated it better only if it was a documentary film. But still I'm happy with the product. Overall a decent film with the decent performances.6/10