Media Depiction
These incidents were the inspiration behind an episode of Law & Order: SVU featuring Robin Williams as the hoaxer, who identified himself as "detective Milgram", a reference to the famous Milgram experiment that tested obedience to authority. The incidents also inspired the short film Plainview, which played the festival circuit in 2007/2008, and the 2012 film by Craig Zobel titled Compliance, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival.
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“The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message.”
—Pope John Paul II (b. 1920)