11/29/2023 0 Comments The manchurian candidate review![]() ![]() ![]() Though no party affiliation is ascribed to any of the characters in this Manchurian Candidate, timely buzzwords and issues (from terrorism to touch-screen voting) creep through the paranoid thriller's narrow margins, by way of voice-over reportage, news-network scrolls, and newspaper headlines ("Mob Kills Muslim at Yale University," reads one). Something's in the air, and it's not love. Michael Moore kicked things off with Fahrenheit 9/11, and Demme will be narrowly trailed by Spike Lee ( She Hate Me) and John Sayles ( Silver City). Opening in the same week as the 2004 Democratic National Convention, Jonathan Demme's remake of The Manchurian Candidate pulses with the same anti-Bush, anti-corporate fervor which roused a handful of American liberal filmmakers to get films in theatres this year. Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)įantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
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