"The Manchurian Candidate: The Return of the Repressed" (If Fahrenheit 9/11 is a perfect filmic expression of the Anybody But Bush ideology of liberal intellectuals, The Manchurian Candidate unexpectedly -- despite the intentions of its creators -- serves as a cinematic vehicle for the return of the politically repressed: "The chief danger to the republic . . . emanates not from the extremes -- a fanatical foreign enemy combined with a zealous administration -- but from the center, from the moderate wing of the opposition party and its corporate sponsors" [A. O. Scott]): <http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/08/manchurian-candidate-return-of.html>.
Yoshie
