The Manchurian Candidate

Berta 2022-05-20 21:20:31

A top-notch political thriller directed by John Frankenheimer. The choreographer perfectly combines the political satire of the Cold War era with suspenseful stories, and the atmosphere is compact and compelling, with dramatic tension.
The background of the story is the United States after the Korean War. Lawrence Xiawei was treated as a war hero when he returned to the country and won the Congressional Medal. However, his brothers in the same platoon and his platoon leader Frank Sinatra didn’t know what he was doing on the battlefield. What heroic act did you do? Sinatra often dreamed of the strange scenes of the Korean War and decided to investigate the truth. He finally discovered that the people in their row had been captured and brainwashed by the North Korean army. Xia Wei had become a brainwashing killer sent by the Soviet Union to the United States for political assassination.
The plot development blends realistic fantasy and symbolism, interlacing each other, so the processing of the image is also very complicated, like a continuously changing train, it will be very enjoyable for the audience who can enter the situation.

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The Manchurian Candidate quotes

  • Marco: It's not that Raymond Shaw is hard to like. He's IMPOSSIBLE to like!

  • Mrs. Iselin: I know you will never entirely comprehend this, Raymond, but you must believe I did not know it would be you. I served them. I fought for them. I'm on the point of winning for them the greatest foothold they would ever have in this country. And they paid me back by taking your soul away from you. I told them to build me an assassin. I wanted a killer from a world filled with killers and they chose you because they thought it would bind me closer to them.

    [Puts her hands on Raymond's face]

    Mrs. Iselin: But now, we have come almost to the end. One last step. And then when I take power, they will be pulled down and ground into dirt for what they did to you. And what they did in so contemptuously underestimating me.

    [Kisses Raymond on the forehead, then his cheek, then on his lips]