The Manchurian Candidate is a sus pense thriller that also proffers a radical criticism of American society, and these two goals are not always compatible with one another. Condon does not succeed in fully integrating his social criticism with the plot, and as a result, there are often embarrassing interludes when someone is forced to deliver a didactic, rhetorical speech that seems stiff, unnatural,.....
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