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Plot Analysis Summary

A psychological drama exploring obedience, guilt, and ethical boundaries through fictionalized Milgram experiments.

Story Structure — 4 Plot Phases

The Pathological Researcher

The Obedience Trials

The Ethical Reckoning

The Final Confrontation

Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazis, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."

Directed by

Charles S. Dubin

Key Cast

Rating: 5.8/10 (7 votes)