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Translation of the quote in the beginning, please


I'm wondering if somebody could translate the Stanley Milgram-quote which is shown before the actual movie starts. It goes like this (I don't have some of the letters on my keyboard): "A psicologia social deste século nos ensinou uma importante licao: usualmente nao é o caráter de uma pessoa que determina como ela age, mas sim a situacao na qual ela se encontra.

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"For the social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often, it is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act".

Not translated, but rather extracted from www.stanleymilgram.com.

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Intriguing and provocative statement. Were it so then character development within the film might not have been necessary. Mattias's journey is logical in that the character he was matches his final actions.

Ever tried, ever failed?
No matter.
Try again, fail again.
Fail better.

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Did we watch the same movie? Mattias ended up acting in a way that was way out of character for who he was at the start of the film.

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