The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate is a paranoid thriller and also utilized as being a political thriller, greek tragedy and also refers to social context and tensions. This modernised version is different to the back dated one, for example the scene where Sergeant Raymond Shaw is ordered to drown and kill.....

In The Manchurian Candidate, Captain Bennett Marco, , alongside the rest of their infantry platoon become kidnapped during the Korean War in 1952. they all set off to Manchuria which then they are brain washed to have the thought of Shaw saving their lives in combat so that he gets awarded the Medal of Honor.


Years have passed after the war and Marco is back in the US working as an intelligence officer, he begins to suffer from recurring nightmares of Shaw killing two of his comrades and also seeing himself being clinically observed by Chinese and Russian intelligence officials. When Marco discovers that another soldier from the platoon also has the same nightmare, he begins to attempt assembling the mystery and the meaning of the nightmare.

The discovery is that the Communists have beem using Shaw as a sleeper agent, which is activated by seeing the Queen of Diamonds, he is provoked by the appearance and obeys orders and after he will forget what he persisted from the orders given.