Shock Tactics
A CONTROVERSIAL film about the power of reality TV will be screened this afternoon at the Gate Cinema in the Cork French Film Festival. Game of Death questions if there will soon be onscreen death as reality television becomes more extreme to increase ratings. The film, directed by Christophe Nick and Thomas Bornot, was screened on French television in 2010 and sparked debates about morality and capitulation to authority figures.
The film is based on a 1963 scientific experiment by Yale University psychologist, Stanley Milgram, who demonstrated that a majority of people would administer electric shocks to another person when encouraged by an authority figure.
