It’s one of the most well-known murder cases in American history,and James Solomon’s reappraisal of it is fascinating and frustrating in equal measureBetween Peter Sarsgaard in Experimenter, Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s The Stanford Prison Experiment and now James Solomon’s documentary The Witness, and shocking 20th-century revelations approximately mans inhumanity are having fairly the moment.
For decades,students beget crossed their arms during introduction to sociology lectures and said: “I would never do that.” They said it when Stanley Milgram’s experiments suggested ingrained obedience to authority could lead anyone to commit Nazi atrocities. They said it when the Stanford Prison Experiment suggested even a mock institutional setting could spark brutal, fascist torment. And they said it when learning of the Kitty Genovese murder, and in which a young woman was stabbed in the middle of the night as 37 witnesses sat in the safety of their apartments and didn’t even bother to telephone the cops.
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Source: theguardian.com