I'm not even sure where to begin with this movie, however I guess I can start with the fact that I honestly really liked this movie. The first thing I thought when the movie was over however was, well if he didn't shoot his mom I would have. Mrs. Iselin is one of those charcters that I honestly wanted to punch through the screen. From the first scene with her I could tell that she was going to be a problem character and that I wasn't going to like her. Anyways, besides me disliking the main character I never saw this ending coming and thought it was a great movie that kept me guessing till the end. I didn't like the fact that he shot himself because over the course of the movie I grew to like his character and pretty much felt bad for him and everything that he went through.
The whole idea of brainwashing people is interesting to me. Theoretically I feel like it would be very hard almost near impossible to actually brainwash someone. There was a story on the news the other day about kids being brainwashed which I could see happening. They were young and didn't know any better. Kids will believe almost anything. What I don't understand is how adults can be brainwashed and especially be made to do things along the lines of killing people. Furthermore, to be influnced by a queen of diamonds is just crazy to me. This is however, one of the parts of the movie that I thought was really cool. Not that I approve of brainwashing people to kill others, but the idea of it for good rather then evil is interesting. I thought about what I would do if I could brainwash someone - some funny joke or prank like everytime you hear or see the number 3, you have to cluck like a chicken. I don't know, but that sounds fun to me.
Anyways, there was so many things that I could point out in this movie that were completely ironic. One major one being that the husband John is a republican running for vice president and his wife is a communist. Do I really need to say much more about this? However, I feel like she is a confused communist because she's on their side but then again at the end explains how she is going after all of them when she's in power. She's crazy. I thought it was also ironic how after this movie comes out that Kennedy is assassinated. I can see how someone would get the idea from this movie.
The reading was interesting also. I skimmed some of it, but the ideas of Momism and demonology were actually interesting to read about. Mrs Iselin is a complete fit for the idea of Momism. She is very controling (not only literally with his actions but who he can/can't marry etc.) and she is 100% corrupting America by being in the communist party and trying to take over. She also controls her husband who in the beginning I didn't care for but realized he is just another prop in her game. In this movie she is portrayed as the demon. The deomonology aspect is interesting too how there are different parts to it and the idea of having to protect the mother and how the white family again was in danger.
Overall I really liked this movie, I could have gone into a lot about politics but I try to stay out of that as much as I can. This movie was interesting though in the way it was presented and how not many people saw that ending coming.
