The 2004 remake of the manchurian candidate is mostly true to it's roots, however, there are several changes from the old version, espicially in the topic of themes.
Themes
In the original manchurian candidate, the opposition were communists posing as anti-communists in order to infiltrate american politics. In the remake, the communists have been replaced by right wingers posing as left wingers. This is because the dispute between democrats and republicans is one of the maor issues of America today, with each believing the other to be harmul to America.
Also, the subtle card base hypnotism, which may have come off threatning in the era of pavlovian psychology, just come off as ridiculous in an era powered by science. Therefore, they updated the means of control to small microchips, updating to the fear of the goverment always spying.
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