How does brainwashing work?

Question

Brainwashing by video, that is. How exactly would it work? Like for instance, if the the brainwasher wanted the person being brainwashed to kill someone, how would it work?

I ask this because I'm writing a short story dealing with brainwashing. Thanks. :-)

Answer 1

they make it sound that a person or others would actually benefit from doing it. like they would be doing someone else a favor.

Answer 2

well, you have to coax them into a state of mind, and prove your points. If you saw the movie "The Mist", the lady brainwashed all of the people to kill the "non-followers", because she used points that were proven.

Answer 3

Brainwashing works through conditioning

The way people get brainwashed through the videos is because it is repeatedly constantly therefore implanting ideas into their subconcious state of mind.

p.s.

also by torturing them until they break and give up