Analysis Of The Manchurian Candidate

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For some people a sad story, yet for others a message to the people that see the movie. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is a movie made after the time of the Cold War (1945-1952) . Indeed, there are reasons to believe that this movie is anti-communist by the fact that it presents traits of some Cold War features such as espionage and maybe proof of McCarthyism. As an important part of the movie, the beginning, started with a troop of Americans in Korea that were caught by Russians due to a schemed trap. Basically, that marks the start of the espionage, by the fact that Raymond and his army colleagues were brainwashed to do whatever the Soviets or Koreans would like them to do. This part of the movie relates to the happening of the Cold War were the Soviets had a spy to figure out a way to steal the ideas of nuclear weapons in the United States to the Soviet Union. According to the book “The Unfinished Nation” by Alan Brinkley, in the Cold War1 section it says that “In 1948, Whittaker Chambers, a former communist agent, now a conservative editor at Time magazine, told the committee that Hiss had passed classified State Department documents to him in 1937 and 1938”. This …show more content…

Some people that not account the story through the aspects of war and history may see this movie as a fiction movie due to its beliefs of people getting brainwashed or maybe a drama due to the ending. Others may see this movie as a threat to the president at that time, because one of the murder tentative was at one of the presidential candidates in the movie, which ended up to be a murder to the mother that was hypnotized her son and her elected husband. In details, Raymond (the son) was brainwashed by the Soviet Union and surprisingly his mother was also working with the Soviet Union. Indeed, the outcome finished with her assassination giving that it was an anti-communist movie from the

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