The film is one of the few Hollywood movies to directly address the fact that we're living in a post-Sept. The movie depicts a collective 21st century American nightmare, in which political, scientific and corporate power align to destroy the Constitution and the Bill of Rights - not by challenging them but by subverting them so utterly that no one even notices they're gone. Denzel Washington plays a man suffering from nightmares, but he's not the only one. As directed by Jonathan Demme, "The Manchurian Candidate" suggests the possibility of pandemonium, even in its quietest moments.īased on the 1962 Cold War classic, directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Frank Sinatra, "The Manchurian Candidate" is updated to accommodate a whole new set of modern-day terrors and fantasies. Safe reality morphs without warning into something strange and menacing. Faces of friends become faces of enemies. "The Manchurian Candidate" is a fever dream of a movie, filmed in the hyper-real, kinetic style of nightmares. Starring Denzel Washington, Liev Schreiber and Meryl Streep.
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