Today I watched a great movie called the Third Man. The Third man is an old mystery movie that is set in Post war Vienna. It was made in 1949 by the director Carol Reed. It starts as the main actor named Holly Martins arrives in Vienna and learns that his friend Harry Lime has died in a car accident. Lost in Vienna Holly Martins pries around to figure out what happened to his friend.
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Even if I didn’t go see the movie in Vienna I still would have liked it. It is a very interesting film and is a great classic thriller. One of the coolest parts of the movie was the fact that I could pick out were each and every shot was taken from. It made the movie more significant and come alive when you knew where each shot was. This movie also showed how life was life in Post war Vienna and Europe. It showed how so many buildings where destroyed and how so many people were suffering.
I found it interesting how the movie showed how Vienna was split up into occupied zones. The movie went to portray the American zone as safe and orderly while the Soviet zone was dangerous. The movie showed how cooperation between the two was almost nonexistent. The characters who played the Soviets looked like Mafioso type men while the people would played the Americans looked respectable and reasonable.
Finally the main character finds out the truth. He discovers that his friend is alive and in the Soviet zone. Making contact with his friend his friend agrees to take a fairest wheel ride with him. During this scene Harry tells Holly about his operation that he as going on and compares the people on the ground to black dots which are nothing more then Ants. Harry would make money by taking medicine from the US and then selling it on the black market. In the process we would split the medicine in order to make more of it. By splitting the medicine he was causing people to die because they would not get the right dose of medicine. I was turned off by this kind of thinking. I feel like this is a type of predatory thinking that only hurts the world. Harry was out to make a quick buck regardless of the cost.
Harry Lime:
Overall the Third man was a great movie and exciting. At first I was not looking forward to the movie because I didn’t think it would be good. However once the movie started I was drawn in and felt the excitement every step of the way.
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