I was undecided between reading Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Black Swan”, playing some videogames and watching “The Manchurian Candidate”, the 2004 version. I choose all three, and I’m writing all this after watching the movie. Of course, alternately I stopped the movie, reading from the book, which is fascinating – I want to finish it today as well – and playing some card decks, or some levels at various arkanoid type games. It offers the brain exactly what it needs, concentration, smoothness and longevity, all in the optimum degree; I’m doing this because it’s Sunday, a day defined to be about entertainment and leisure.
Not finished the book yet, but with a formed idea in mind anyway, I can say already that I would like to have it written myself, not for assuming the patent before the author (Levantine philosophical essayist and practitioner of mathematical finance ), but for pointing what was the necessary, or what I consider being very useful in the life approach. This book has nothing to do with the Golden Globe Awards nominated movie, Black Swan.
I liked the movie as well, it was magisterially played by all the actors there, a subject very dear to the “conspiracy theory researchers”. I’m sure Richard Condon took the precaution to mention like Grisham, that absolutely anything in the book is nothing but a perfect fantasy which has not something to do with real life, even if you, the reader think it could have, the logic and the chain of events happening, being somehow too precise to be just a fantasy. Condon is considered a satirical political thriller writer, and the action in the book was pictured at Hollywood in 1962, with Frank Sinatra, the book being written in 1959. The book and the movie express some experiment applied to American soldiers during the Korean War. The one I saw, is a “modern” adaptation, with Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight, placed after the Gulf War, but as I see, the names of the two main characters involved, Major Ben Marco and Sergeant Raymond Shaw were preserved. What Jonathan Demme directed with art, was the method of manipulation, very rich explained in the documentary book, Trance-formation of America, by Cathy O’Brien and Mark Phillips, speaking out on how CIA programs such as MK-ULTRA involved torturing U.S. citizens, United States’ allies citizens, and how these heinous atrocities are allowed to continue under the 1947 National Security Act.
These are the things I thought seeing the movie!
The Manchurian Candidate – CD Soundtrack Cover
[source – imdb.com]
imdb rated 6,7
released – July, 30 2004
129′
English
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Writing credits:
Richard Condon (novel)
George Axelrod (1962 screenplay)
Daniel Pyne and Dean Georgaris (screenplay)
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