and also employs elements of film noir, but with updated themes, content, style, etc. that were absent in the 1940’s-1950’s, when film noir was popular. The Manchurian Candidate takes place during the last year of the Korean War and the years following it. Near the end of the war, a platoon of United States soldiers is captured and brainwashed but eventually returned home. The film centers around a young man named Raymond Shaw, who is the son of a prominent right-wing family and has unknowingly become…
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