Manchurian Candidate: Movie Review

Manchurian Candidate with Denzel Washington is a well acted movie. I enjoyed the plot and characters except for the annoying brain dead personality of Meryl Streep but then again maybe some of the politicians are like that. :) The scenes where they show mind control sequences were brief though interesting to watch. They left out some grisly mind control technologies in the movie. My guess is because they wanted to keep the "Rated R" rating, instead of NC-17. The hypnotic triggers they used were primitive and wouldn't be considered safe, but I suppose they had to keep it simplistic for audience viewing purposes.

The main thing that they the movie has us to believe that the Manchurian Global company is behind this and it only happens to prisoners of war. The reality is that the CIA does this to their new recruits, ie. see the case of Candy Jones. Many mind control victims are U.S. citizens and the culprit is often the C.I.A. The enemy is within and not in some far away foreign land.

The symptoms of mind control technologies are pretty accurately portrayed in this movie. This movie is a must see.