Sometimes, when I’m rewatching an old thriller or reading through declassified documents, I can’t help but notice the eerie overlap between fiction and reality. The Manchurian Candidate may feel like a Cold War fantasy, but it emerged alongside real-life CIA experiments aimed at controlling human behavior. The story of trained assassins, brainwashed and activated without their knowledge, sits in that gray space where our imagination … Continue reading Programmed to Kill? Exploring The Line Between History and Hollywood