The Manchurian Candidate(2002)
Very good film. It was so close to being an amazing film. Movies rarely effectively blend the line between actual occurrence and delusional paranoia. For about 3/4 of the way the movie does a great job of being both a standalone depiction of someone possible delusional schizophrenia and a narrative portrayal of the all too real increasing corporate influence on modern politics.
Unfortunately, the final quarter felt very contrived in how it ended. A movie that had some scope became bogged down and had to tie down the loose ends hastily. The protogonists (immediatly new) love interest conveniently works for the fbi. The senator of course believes a man who shows up to his door talking about implants in human bodies and immediately because, as the movie so forcefully shoves down your throat, he is the only honest man left in the government or something like that.
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