Cant believe I've still not seen this flick.

I've watched this movie many times, the eerie feeling I get from it, has not been replicated by any other movie since. Underrated movie.

The Meryl Streep character is based on Hillary.

The timing of this movie in 2004 is extremely interesting. This is one Decoding Symbols may what to look into.

Manchurian Candidate release date: July 30, 2004

Obama keynote address at the 2004 DNC convention: July 27, 2004

Before Obamas keynote he was an unknown by the majority of the American public. He was the junior Senator from Illinois in his first term. After his speech the legacy media mockingbirds spent weeks marking him as a future President and ultimately years slobbing his knob.

I had never heard of him, didnt see the DNC keynote, but knew from the fawning of the media he would be President and it wasnt going to be some grassroots, organic movement. They were working too hard to make it so. It just wasnt natural.

At the time, it did play to far more sheeple than it would today as they built him into black jesus. But blacks, especially the men now, wont be so easily fooled. They know Obama did squat for blacks. They know he actually made it harder for them. They know Obama widened divides that over the course of generations had been closing. Have no doubt pre Obama, race relations in this country had improved significantly. After Obama we got things like Ferguson and Freddie Gray and BLM.

I think this movie falls squarely in the realm of comms and Id love to see Decoding Symbols take a deep dive into it.

Thx, I'll watch this weekend, never got around to watching it

Definitely watch the original 2962 film with Frank Sinatra and Janet Leigh. We are living through a looking glass.

A problem I have with remakes is the loss of context. The original is called The Manchurian Candidate because he was in Manchuria. There's another Denzel remake called The Taking of pelm 123 that makes no sense post 9/11

From the book

Major Bennett Marco, Sergeant Raymond Shaw, and the rest of their infantry platoon are captured by an elite Soviet commando unit during the Korean War in 1952. They are taken to Manchuria, and brainwashed into believing Shaw saved their lives in combat

In the remake they are from the Gulf War.

The original was inspired by real events Us POWs were confessing to war crimes including germ, warfare in Chinese custody.

When you look into it "brainwashing" there's a whole rabbit hole there

The concept of brainwashing was first pushed by a Anti-Communist journalist in the US about 1959. He used the words brainwash based on his translation of Chinese words. However what he described was not how the words were actually used in China which has a positive connotation of self improvement or becoming modern. In fact, a good portion of it was about bringing new Western scientific ideas to China and replacing superstition. His version was skewed it into a new negative connotation of mind control. So much so, that the Chinese saw this as an American concept.

Another issue was this journalist, Edward Hunter, was actually a CIA agent. He wrote this book in 1951.

https://www.abebooks.com/signed/Brain-Washing-Red-China-Calculated-Destruction-Mens/31517864221/bd

A few years after this book came out Psychologist realized that what Hunter was proclaiming was fake and that level of control especially what we see in Manchurian Candidate was not an actual phenomenon, but the concept took off.

But Hunter testified to Congress in 1958 and
rhe novel came out the next year and the movie 3 yeas after that.

https://qalerts.app/?n=1662

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Link from the Q post:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/1/us-really-did-have-manchurian-candidate-white-hous/

I am struck by the realization that America really did have a Manchurian Candidate in The White House for eight years.

One more link from the .gov page:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2021-04-27/html/CREC-2021-04-27-pt1-PgS2217.htm

U.S. Senate,

Washington, DC, July 24, 2020.

Brigadier General (ret.) Anthony J. Tata,

Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Defense,

Washington, DC.

“Among dozens of clues, Obama supported Russian meddling in 2016 election & influenced Israeli elections to try to oust Netanyahu & help Hamas & Muslim brotherhood U.S. really did have Manchurian Candidate in White House.”

I feel better after looking at the comments. I haven’t seen this yet, either. I’m not a big movie person. I think this may be required watching. Thank you, pugsan!

Denzel’s son John David Washington is the star of Tenet. Watch Tenet as NSA (John David Washington) finding and losing Algorithm (think Dominion fractional vote shaving algorithm) to lull the bad guy (Cabal head) into thinking he won because John David Washington failed to eradicate the Algorithm (vote fraud). But it was always the (NSA) plan to fail to diffuse the situation, because it’s the splinter group that wins the war by theatrical and emotional manipulation, and one final bullet from a blackmailed wife. Only the blackmail was no long blackmail but impetus to attempt revenge upon the Cabal.

I remember the garden club scene from the original. Creepy in a way.

If only it was just a movie. https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/nanobots-in-covid-19-unvaccinated If you take a look at what the heads of electrical and/or computer engineering have been up to at larger universities (and even smaller ones), you can see a steady progression where they've been hooking people up to the internet. Check this out and you get an idea: https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/14/2/82 Searches point out they want us hooked up to the internet (I'm sure with the best of intentions /S). https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-08-12/neurograins

Watched it yesterday, did not disappoint.

Any other recommendations?