Well you can bet your bottom dollar it will be on again and again and again...so let him watch it again and he will then be able to understand it.
More information is needed to answer your question. For example: the age of your son, the subject the he is confused about, etc.. I think that you are trying to get someone to either do his or your homework because it is obvious that you have no idea about the movie's subject matter.
Well why don't you watch it and then explain it to your son?
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This is a remake of the 1962 thriller of soldiers, returning from war, who have been brainwashed and programmed to kill. The movie has been updated from the Korean War era to the war in Iraq (Desert Storm). Captain Bennett Marco (Denzel Washington) is now playing Frank Sinatra's part. Time has passed, and now Major Marco is giving speeches about his platoon being ambushed in the Kuwaiti desert. The Lost Platoon was saved by the heroics of Sergeant Raymond Prentiss Shaw (Liev Schreiber), who received the Medal of Honor. Shaw is now a candidate, running for Vice-President of the United States. Marco can't sleep at night, and when he does, he is having nightmares of what really happened in the desert. He thinks Shaw might not be a hero, and that he may have had something to do with the death of two soldiers in the desert. Marco tries to find the truth and people around him begin to die. Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)
You should watch it, then YOU can explain it to him...I mean he is YOUR son...Im not trying to be mean, Im just saying this is something you as a parent should be able to handle.
Tell him from what i can remember it was a excellent film
Whew. MMMkay, I haven't watched the movie for a while but I'll see what I can remember. In Manchurian Candidate there is a secret "organization" that researches and tests some sort of controlling/brainwashing device. Maybe it was researched and funded by the American Government or by International Terrorist or AntiAmerican group. Anyways, Denzel is a soldier who has these nightmares that are really flashbacks to the testing phase and he searches for answers. "Shaw", or Liev Schreiber is a controlled candidate for presidency. It is easily summed up in the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Manchur...