"The Manchurian Candidate" by John Frankenheimer
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Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) Carrer de Montalegre 5, 08001 Barcelona
Image courtesy of CCCB
The first session of the Inside the Brain film cycle sets out to reflect on mental manipulation with the screening of The Manchurian Candidate, by John Frankenheimer, followed by a talk by Celia Andreu-Sánchez.
During the Korean War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw's platoon is captured by the communists and brainwashed as part of a plan to turn them into sleeper agents that can infiltrate the US government. When Raymond returns home, his comrade, Major Bennett Marco, starts having a recurring nightmare that helps him to remember some of the events from the war, and he begins to investigate Sergeant Shaw.
The film is based on Richard Condon's 1959 novel of the same name, set during the US-Korean War that took place in the early 1950s. The Manchurian Candidate deals with major concerns that arose among the US population after the war, such as the fear of losing control of your own mind and ending up helping the enemy. The film was a forerunner of the conspiracy theories that began to emerge in the US some time later, in the 1960s. With Frank Sinatra playing one of the main characters, it has become a cult film over
The film will be shown in original version and subtitled in Catalan. After the screening there will be a talk, open to the public, by Celia Andreu-Sánchez (PhD in Communication and Master in Neuroscience).
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