For a second, he sees an apparition from the past sitting directly opposite him.
Marco blinks, and the figure vanishes.
Rose appears to have taken a shine to Marco or could it be that she has some other agenda?
But theres also the feeling that the characters are studying us, daring us to look away.
It does, however, contain some of Demme and regular cinematographer Tak Fujimotos most effective moments of suspense.
No other film in the directors body of work drips with quite so much clammy paranoia.
The 2004Candidates plot is much the same as the old one, at least at first.
Raymond stands alone in a hotel room, talking to his mother on the telephone.
Hes interrupted by another caller: the frosty, British tones of Dr Noyle.
Dr. Noyle is here, looking like a Nazi ghost with his swept-over hair and white surgeons gown.
In terms of pure, cinematic tension-building, the dream-logic of this sequence works toThe Manchurian Candidates advantage.
This is, I think, the reason why Demmes subjective style of filmmaking is so effective.
