Bennett Marco, a commanding officer, and his military unit were ambushed during the first Gulf War. After this attack, Shaw eventually runs to become vice president while Marco and others are haunted by dreams of what happened in Kuwait. As Marco investigates the incident in Kuwait, he begins to wonder if his dreams have anything to do with what really happened. With the help of Shaw's mother, this group of scientists from the Manchurian Global Corporation kidnapped the entire unit and brainwashed them into believing that Shaw saved the unit and would become an honorable war hero. This was all part of a plot to take over the White House. “The Allegory in the Cave” and “Hints of Psychoanalysis” both connect to this film because it is how Dr. Atticus Noyle and Shaw's mother, Senator Eleanor, brainwash and manipulate these men. Dr. Noyle kidnapped them the night of the attack on Kuwait, takes them and performs several shock therapies and nanotech experiments to brainwash them. This doctor destroys them all and achieves full control of their minds. Once Corporal Al Melvin shows Bennett Marco the drawings he made during the night in Kuwait, Marco begins to realize that he too has these dreams. Dreams are a formation of things that our mind suppresses. Your subconscious discovers the truth and advises the mind through dreams (Freud 41). As Marco begins to investigate this