![]() “What did we learn?” “I don’t know, sir.” “I don’t fuckin’ know either. ![]() When the hero – Major Bennett Marco (Frank Sinatra) – is left to grapple with everything that happened, it plays as a less humorous version of the final scene in the Coen Brothers’ Burn After Reading. Later, when the hero has a chance to capture the threat, he lets him go, only for the threat to reverse the danger on those above him, and on himself. But once the plot really kicks into action, the chase is hardly on – it pauses immediately for an extended flashback to a happy summer in the life of another character, the man most immediately threatened by the grand plot. ![]() The first hour is spent dropping clues and suggestions, deterring the hero’s claims, and mostly providing a ton of exposition that will pay off in the second. From a structural standpoint, The Manchurian Candidate is an odd sort of thriller.
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