The 'Individual' - Comparative Study: ‘Manchurian Candidate’ And 'One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest'

Throughout my study of the individual, I have come to brighten that the establishment’s desire for control, discourages identity and has serious consequences for society. This is depicted in Jonathan Demme’s film ‘Manchurian Candidate’ (2004) and raft Kesey’s ‘One flew over the cuckoos nest” (1969). Both texts evidence that from any context it is hard to be an individual, because of the power, control and whoremaster of the establishment, and the consequences of personal expression.

An individual is anyone who defies against the rules and regulations of the establishment, being the media, governments and organisations. In both Manchurian and Cuckoo’s the individual is immersed in a rule and controlling society, hence making it difficult, to be an individual. In my film, the individual, Marco, is mesmerised and brainwashed by the organisation Manchurian global. Marco together with Shaw attempts to go out this control recognising that there’s something “deep inside of us, A part they can’t get to”, being our individuality. This implies that individuality is not impossible.



Unfortunately Marco along with Melvin and Raymond Shaw, eventually become engulfed by the hegemonic control of modern society, indicating that the establishment can never be conquered, but rather just disrupted. Demme emphasises this through intense media saturation and hyperrealism, to convince audiences that modern propaganda is manipulating and oppressing the individual’s freedom of expression. Demme uses the stem of televisions, for instance, in one of Marco’s dreams viewers witness heptad televisions stacked in a tower, representing this saturation. This is also symbolic of the media manufacturing and implanting their avow beliefs and version of the truth. The propaganda reflects the social context of the gulf war and terrorism, as the media exploited Western society’s fear and uncertainty,...If you lack to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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