"From the brainwashers, hoping for your understanding," she recalled him saying, smiling mischievously.
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In his forthcoming book, Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, The Brainwashers, and Themselves, journalist Matthew Sweet explores the story of a specific group of young Americans who turned their back on their country and got more than they bargained for.
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The Brainwashers () is a Canadian animated short film, directed by Patrick Bouchard and released in 2002.Chris Robinson, "Pictures from the Brainbox: Animators on Animation - 'The Brainwashers'". Animation World Network, May 28, 2018. The film centres on two chimney sweeps cleaning memories out of a man's brain in an attempt to understand how the human thought process works.
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The FBI arranges a meeting between Marco and Raymond to convince the latter of his condition. The meeting takes place just as Governor Arthur and Raymond win the White House, and Raymond receives a phone call from his mother intended for Marco. Eleanor, who is deeply linked with Manchurian, uses trigger words to control Marco's mind, giving him commands to assassinate the President-elect so that Raymond can become President. Eleanor admits to her son that she voluntarily gave him to the brainwashers for the good of the country.
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It was generally well received by critics, and moderately successful at the box office. The film updated the conflict (and brainwashing) to the Persian Gulf War in 1991, had a U.S. corporation (called "Manchurian Global") as the perpetrator of the brainwashing and conspiracy instead of foreign Communist groups, and dropped the Johnny Iselin character in favor of making both Shaw and his mother elected politicians. Both adaptations discard several elements of the book. The book spends more time describing the brainwashers and the facility in Manchuria where the Americans were held.
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He is a four-time winner of the Prix Jutra/Prix Iris for Best Animated Short Film for his films The Brainwashers (2003), Dehors novembre (2006), Bydlo (2012)"Jutra Awards soiree fails to elicit much drama; Rebelle the big winner while Michel Cote takes home lifetime achievement award". Montreal Gazette, March 18, 2013. and The Subject (2018), and a three-time Genie Award and Canadian Screen Award nominee for Best Animated Short Film, for Dehors novembre, Bydlo"Introducing the Canadian Screen Awards, and their 2013 nominees". Maclean's, January 15, 2013.
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Despite his political views, he was one of the first to show his respect to Jaurès' remains after his assassination on the eve of World War I. During World War I, Barrès was one of the proponents of the Union Sacrée, which earned him the nickname "nightingale of bloodshed" ("rossignol des carnages"). The Canard enchaîné satirical newspaper called him the "chief of the tribe of brainwashers" ("chef de la tribu des bourreurs de crâne").Biographical notice of Barrès on the Académie française's website His personal notes showed however that he himself did not always believe in his purported war optimism, being at times close to defeatism. During the war Barrès also partly came back on the mistakes of his youth, by paying tribute to French Jews in Les familles spirituelles de la France, where he placed them as one of the four elements of the "national genius", alongside Traditionalists, Protestants and Socialists – thus opposing himself to Maurras who saw in them the "four confederate states" of "Anti-France".
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