I hereby absolve myself of any responsibility for anything, reasonable or otherwise, which may be inferred from the contents of this post. Ahem…
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I just watched the 2004 remake of The Manchurian Candidate. It was most notable for the proliferation
of men dressed up as Christmas trees (I think they were American army
officers), a woman pretending to be somebody else (I think it was Margaret
Thatcher), and a hell of a lot of chimpanzees behaving like chimpanzees but
dressed up as people (I think they were the American electorate.) And I liked
the fact that all the sinister people with brains were Brits, and all the good
guys were black. If you don’t believe me, watch the damn movie.
I’m not sure what Jonathan Demme’s intention was in making
this film, but it was most interesting.
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