The Manchurian candidate is focus around the cold war period and it was originally a novel that concentrated on the idea of brainwashing. The cold war brought fear among the American community and this fear is seen through the film when numerous members of congress are falsely accused of being part of the communist party. The main character of the movie, Raman, is program to be an assassin. He is brainwashed to kill on command and then to forget about it so he is unable to feel guilt, and even if someone were to find him suspicious he would have no idea what he or she were talking about. The whole process happens when he is in Korea and he is captured by Korea’s army along with his unit whom are all brainwashed.
The beginning of the movie is focused on the different members of the unit and how all of them are having a reoccurring nightmare. In the nightmare, Renan kills two of the members of the unit cold heartly when he is commanded to do so. When the members of the unit start writing to Renan, he is surprised they call him their good friend since he knows he is the least lovable person and he has no idea why they feel that way towards him. More than one solder has the nightmare and the scene of the nightmares are usually fit to a racial preference (i.e. the African-American man is a room surrounded with only people of his skin color.) Later on, Renan gets a phone call where he is asked to play a game of solitaire and as soon as he sees the queen of diamonds, his subconscious takes over his body, mind and soul.
Then, after two years Renan is handed over to his American operator who surprisingly is his mother. Renan’s mother is trying to take over the government and rule America through her husband, whom is Renan’s stepfathe...
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...on might react to a crisis and to pressure. Also, throughout the movie I saw how fear may control a population and even the brain. Therefore, bringing me back to what we discussed in class that different people react different to certain situations.
In conclusion the film the Manchurian candidate is focus on the idea of brainwashing a group of men and making one of them an assassin, Renan, whom then surprisingly ends up being the hero of the United States instead of the villain. Many things were shocking to me such as the mother using her child to take over the United States and how the Korean were able to control Renan’s brain. Some of the connections that the film had to the class included: not only the psychological part of how the brain works but also how people react to certain circumstances and how fear may not only control a person but even the government.
For some people a sad story, yet for others a message to the people that see the movie. The Manchurian Candidate (1962) is a movie made after the time of the Cold War (1945-1952) . Indeed, there are reasons to believe that this movie is anti-communist by the fact that it presents traits of some Cold War features such as espionage and maybe proof of McCarthyism.
...and has hope that a day will come when she will join him in America. In the long run, Kek and his two friends; Lou and Gol help him adjust to his new American life as well as the joy and pain that he will go through along the way (Applegate, 42). Towards the end, his mother comes to Minnesota and they make it a new home.
This book can be a warning to humanity, telling society that brainwashing can become common and destroy the modern day world. This book makes the people of the modern day world think about what could happen in the near future if society decides to go farther and more into scientific research. Misuses in science could contribute to the making of man into an animal, not a smart, adapted, emotional connected human being. In “Brave New World,” Huxley creates a world that is complete and utterly disturbing to what humanity could become. The people in the World State are controlled through psychological conditioning on a ground breaking scale.
A distressing emotion aroused by impending evil and pain, whether the threat is real or imagined is described as fear. Fear is what William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies encompasses. By taking three major examples from the novel, fear will be considered on different levels: Simon’s having no instance of fear, Ralph’s fear of isolation on the island, and Jack’s fear of being powerless. Fear can make people behave in ways that are foreign to them, whether their fear is real or imagined. In response to fear, people may act defensively by attacking, fear can either stop one from doing something, or it can make one behave in an irrational erratic manner.
Fear is a driving force in The Lord of the Flies. How does fear in all of its forms influence the boy's attitudes and behaviours?
While many may believe humans are inbreeded with certain believes and morals, they automatically diminish the probability of being brainwashed. Literary works as Brave New World, and the government of North Korea, prove controlling the mind to be possible.
While watching this movie I noticed many social psychology concepts throughout. I have never paid attention to these concepts when watching the movie before, so it was interesting to pay close attention and see how many came up. The movie displays foot-in-the door technique, social facilitation, deindividuation, ingroup, scapegoat theory, among many others. Being a very real and honest movie, it is easy to understand why so many social psychology concepts are present. Our textbook defines social psychology to be, “the scientific field that seeks to understand the nature and causes of individual behavior, feelings and thought in social situation” (Baron & Branscombe, 2012). There are many strong characters within the movie, and they display these concepts.
From a traditional housewife in a white middle-class family, Mother has become a strong woman with independent minds. Her character becomes vivid step by step. Mother and Father represent an ordinary family in society. If their lives can change so much, what about millions of others? Their changes indicate the upcoming revolution taking place in this world.
Fear drives people to act completely out of character and unusual for themselves. In most cases, the change of character is not for the best. Sophie Wender acts un-brave and afraid when she runs away from the fear of the unknown. Joseph Storm acts not so out of character for himself, but out of character for a fatherly figure when facing the problem of his son asking something he fears. Lastly, Emily Storm acts very out of character from her naturally caring motherly self when she calls her niece who has a deviation a monster. Fear is a one of the strongest emotions humans have to face. When faced with fear, everyone must learn to control their emotions so they do not come off as someone they are not.
She is a seventeen year old in her prime who feels immortal because she has a long life to live, therefore decision making are not based on careful planning but emotions, peer pressure and fantasies. Risk taking from a teenager normally comes from poor judgement, why would America take the decision of leaving the comfort of her home to go to a country which is mainly travelled by the men in her town? Why did she leave with the most unlikely candidate, her brother-in-law? In adversity her first yearn was for her mother’s touch, her food and her home, the fragile little girl in her cries for a mother touch when times are hard because that’s what she is used to, mom handling the
Considering communist China's recent increased aggression, and deteriorating relations between them and the United States, the dangers of this novel must be weighed carefully. It is often taught in schools, despite the fact that it promotes un-American and anti-capitalist views. With today's political tension, do we really want our youth exposed to literature that encourages them to mistrust the government and supports a communist revolution?
Hypnosis was a largely feared concept, but more so, what it could do to people. In her essay in regards to Manchurian Candidates and forensic hypnosis during the Cold War, Alison Winter stated that,“the 1950s and 1960s saw intense anxieties about practices with immense power over human perception, motivation, memory, and behavior” (107). Her argument and discussion is significant to the film and to the Cold War Era because it helped people recognize how easily agency could be stripped away; people realized just how susceptible they really were to mind control. Just as Raymond Shaw’s perception, motivation, memory, and behavior were not solely his, the same was being done to American citizens for them to perform as tools and puppets at the hands of communism. Winter elaborates that “psychology occupied a central place in Cold War anxieties about scientific techniques that could be used for political purposes, and hypnosis was often center stage in the fears people expressed” (107). We see in The Manchurian Candidate that Raymond Shaw was under hypnosis and trained to re-enter that stage of hypnosis each time he was triggered to (upon seeing the red queen of diamonds). Eleanor Shaw used Raymond for political purposes- to promote and safeguard
Entirely different accounts of what happened are not shown in the film. This action lowers the credentials of the movie about the theme of history. It is not possible to understand the real intention of the creators of the movie. A movie based on real events is supposed to be educative as it represents events that took place a long time ago. The movie will be watched by numerous people many years after it was released. Whenever the events are wrongfully illustrated, false information will be passed to the viewers.
While you can’t control what happens to you, you can control your reactions and responses to the real dangerous situations you face.Fear destroys creativity, hope, peace and joy.fear of failure?But how many dreams die on the sword of fear? How many lives go unfulfilled because of fear? Get on that plane?
The Manchurian incident was a turning point in Japanese history in which it abandoned its somewhat general policy of cooperation and peace and instead chose to pursue their personal interests in Asia (S,191). The Japanese interest in China was evident even before its invasion in 1931. In both the Sino Japanese war from 1894 to 1905 as well as the Russo-Japanese War from 1904 to 1905 Japan secured specific locations in Manchuria and other areas in China (U,351). Overall, the consensus for the extensive needs of the empire ultimately drove its policy making until the end of World War 2. To take control of what they believed to be the most mineral rich section of China in which they controlled expansive holdings in such as the South Manchurian Railroad, officers part of the Kwantung Army that were stationed there hatched a plan that would become to be known as the Manchurian Crisis. On September 18th 1931, Japanese soldiers located at the South Manchurian Railroad set off an explosive that they blamed on China (launching both nations into hostile relations for years to come.?? (P,115)) The Japanese invaded Japanese Invaded Chinese controlled Manchuria in 1931 because they wanted to accommodate the rising of the Japanese population, obtain more natural resources, and to stimulate their nearly collapsed economy.