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February 04, 2005

The Manchurian Candidate - 6

One part look into politics and business and the messiness it is, another part conspiracy theory. Overall and interesting and engaging movie. It brings out the power of manipulation and the level humans will go in order to make reality into what they want to believe. It also deals with issues of doubt, how memory fades and is effected by our physicality, where is the line between crazy/paranoid and seeking the truth? I liked how it stayed away from the pretentiousness of making a simile between the fictional government in the movie and our real government that we currently have.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

This movie creeped me out. The very possibility that the story could happen to a degree is scary. I loved this other dirty side of politics. Plus I think it really comments on the power of the military and how on some level they do brainwash people. The soldiers are told what to think and say. They are turned into merciless killing machines. Of course the story here is fiction but it touches on some really important issues.

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