The Manchurian Candidate

Movie • 2004 • Drama  

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Years after his squad was ambushed during the Gulf War, Major Ben Marco finds himself having terrible nightmares. He begins to doubt that his fellow squad-mate Sergeant Raymond Shaw, now a vice-presidential candidate, is the hero he remembers him being. As Marco's doubts deepen, Shaw's political power grows, and, when Marco finds a mysterious implant embedded in his back, the memory of what really happened begins to return.
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The main plot revolves around characters' inability to discern what is real. They are repeatedly told that their memories of an incident are false.
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Anonymous
One character murders another by holding a plastic bag over their head. It is brief, but quite graphic.
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Jeanh
Prior to the events of the movie, a characters parent died. It's not depicted
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Technically the entire army group from the start, but temporarily.
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deliphonelives
1hr.16min.30sec. when they're asked to kill people. It's dried on one guys shirt, other guy does it when being choked.
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Sort of. It’s not exactly a hospital, but it’s close enough.
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the main character cuts his back to pull a chip out from under his skin
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Eh. Sort of. Not as explicitly as you’d expect, but there’s certainly some questionable mother-son dynamics.
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