Such scenes are undoubtedly as “real” as anything in the film, but they seem quite strange and jarring. ![]() A secret experimentation chamber is hidden behind the wall of a hotel room housing the Vice Presidential candidate, or a school just happens to be hosting a play featuring Abraham Lincoln, or a shady meeting on a sunny afternoon featuring two men in trenchcoats and fedoras. Naturally, the dream sequences and flashbacks seem almost hyper-real, but there are several moments where the conscious world seems a little too surreal or absurd. ![]() ![]() There’s a very ethereal mood to The Manchurian Candidate, as if we are somehow witnessing the lucid dreams of the protagonist, Major Bennett Marco.
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