The Manchurian Candidate: Review
This film was made in 1962. Most see it today as a political comedy, but was a mind boggle in its day for the outrageous military strategy of so called brainwashing. The Manchurian Candidate keeps you glued to the screen as the film smoothly tells a story. The opening of the movie begins with a group of soldiers being brainwashed a Chinese hypnotist. The soldiers imagine a garden meeting with old women surrounding them, while in r
Until we find that his brainwashing experience is still real, but he does not realize he is not under his own control. He is dead to the world and believes no one. By the end of the film we find that Harvey's controller is someone close to him. Who is not to smooth at the time, as he spills his drink and cannot even light a cigarette. When the hypnotist asks an American solider to shoot a comrade in the head he not only willingly, but also happily obeyed. eality it is a Chinese military intelligence group. While Sinatra is being investigated, he falls in love with a beautiful woman played by Janet Leigh. Sinatra gets in touch with Harvey, which is when facts start to fall in place. He becomes an assassin who is completely gullible to his mystery controller. A very strange relationship they begin to have as Leigh dumps her fiance as soon as she meets Sinatra. ------------------------------------------------------------------------**Bibliography**n/a. He looks as if he is a machine working for an unknown force. He is confused by the brainwashing, and does not know what is going on. He begins to have nightmares, which reveal what the soldiers went though when they were captured. Frank Sinatra is a solider, who returns to his normal American life.
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