"The Third Man" Movie Appreciation
After World War II, Vienna was divided into four districts, which were controlled by the United States, Britain, Russia and France. As we all know, after World War II, the Allies and allies who seemed to be closely united against the enemy during the war had begun to suspect each other and tried their best to win post-war dividends for themselves. "Three people" took advantage of such contradictions to foreshadow the development of the plot with the police. The protagonist of the film, Mr. Holly Martins, appeared. Unemployed, he was invited by his best friend Harry Lime to work in Vienna. He had just arrived in Vienna to find Harry's residence, but was informed by the concierge that Harry was dead, and the coffin had been carried for burial ten minutes ago. After Hawley went to the cemetery to pay homage to Harry, a series of strange people and events approached him. First, the officer Calloway asked him to leave Vienna after verbally investigating him. And Hawley was just because he thought Harry couldn't have died by accident at the beginning, and the investigation by the police officers, the strange eyes of two people and a beautiful lady in the cemetery, made him even more determined to stay and get rid of it. The determination to know the truth.
After investigation, it was found that Lime's death scene actually had Lime's doctor - Wink, Lime's other friend Baron Quez, Romanian - Popescu, and the driver of the accident was Lime's driver. This result is really surprising. He found Anna Schmidt and went to the concierge to find out what happened, and found that there was a third person who appeared. Who was the "third person" became the biggest suspense, and Hawley decided to find out who was from here. The "third person" starts. In the second time I went to the concierge to understand the situation, I liked many shots and pictures, which were intriguing and foreshadowing. For example, when talking to Hawley in the concierge, a call came, and Miss Schmidt answered the phone, but there was no sound on the phone. After watching the entire film, I boldly guessed that Harry might be calling, but Harry thought it was Hawley who answered the phone to talk some information, but it was Anna who answered the phone, so nothing came out of the phone. Then a ball rolled into the room. It was the child of the concierge. The child quietly showed his head from behind the door, looking at the scene where his father was arguing with a stranger. The portrayal of his eyes was simply wonderful, and the child was swallowing saliva. It felt like It was the appearance of wanting to speak but not daring, and it also paved the way for the third time that Hawley and Anna wanted to find the concierge to understand the situation. When it comes to "voice", I have to talk about the wife of the concierge. His wife did not want her family to be involved in this turmoil and stopped her husband's "voice". This just shows that in Vienna, a city that symbolizes the high civilization of Europe, the traumatic memories left by the war are far more intolerable than the stings caused by bombs and gunpowder smoke. I didn’t dare to shake it out, for fear that I might accidentally get into big trouble, because this is no longer the Vienna of Austria, nor the Vienna of “Germany”.
Immediately after Hawley and Anna returned to Anna's residence, another foreshadowing appeared in the movie - Anna's false documents. Sheriff Calloway has turned the home of Harry's girlfriend Anna upside down and withheld her personal letters and forged documents to investigate Harry's death. It is the appearance of this forged document that can be deduced from this that Anna knew that Harry was a hateful black market trader during her lifetime, but in the helpless situation that she, as a woman who smuggled over from the Czech Republic, may be taken away by the Russians and repatriated at any time, It was Harry who helped her forge the documents, and it was Harry's appearance that allowed her to have a normal life and no longer have to be afraid. So Anna is grateful and in love with Harry, he is willing to hide everything for Harry, and her love for Harry has reached an incomparable level. The story continues, the previous Romanian - Popescu appears, Baron Quez and Popescu talk to Hawley together, trying to confuse the public. Then the music started, and four people met on the bridge. Three of them were Kerz, Wink, and Popescu. It was not difficult to guess that the fourth person should be Harry who appeared later. The meeting of the four must be followed by planning for the next thing, because Hawley's investigation and Calloway's investigation brought them a lot of trouble. Martins went back to the street again, that is, the crime scene, and thought about it carefully. The concierge saw that Yu Xin couldn't bear to tell him more truth and asked him to come back at night. Then the concierge closed the glass window, and when he turned around, he seemed to see something terrifying. The picture was frozen at the moment when he turned around, and his eyes were enough to leave the viewer with a lot of suspicion and suspense. I just don't know why the background music here is funny and cheerful. In the evening, when Hawley and Anna came to the concierge's residence, they found that there were many people around. When they approached, they found out that the concierge had been murdered, and the children of the concierge kept calling Hawley "Dad" and chasing after Hawley. Here the child in front sees the effect of the quarrel between Hawley and the porter, and the child thinks that it was Hawley who killed his father, and people also think that it was Hawley who killed the porter and chased after Hawley. Hawley was wanted like this, the most tense moment of the plot appeared, and the rush of the music also added to this tense atmosphere. Hawley was taken into a car by a strange man, and he accelerated wildly without saying where he was going. , made him think that he was arrested by the police station, but he was unexpectedly brought to the lecture site. Martins gave a very embarrassing lecture, and Popescu also appeared at the scene. He asked Martins if he was preparing for the creation of the next book, and Martins replied: "Yes, the name is "The Third Man"" , and this novel is a murder novel. Obviously, both of them point to Harry's death. The careful setting of this kind of pointing and scolding can not only adjust the tension of the story, but also
Popescu's pursuit led Hawley to find Sheriff Calloway again, and the truth gradually surfaced. Harry used the penicillin that handyman Joseph Harbin stole from the military hospital to make a profit and traded it on the black market. Knowing the truth, Hawley was disheartened to find Anna and wanted to say goodbye to her, and wanted to leave Vienna, a city full of filth after the war. When Hawley left on the street, he found a man hiding in the dark who thought he was being followed by the police and cursed in the street at night, but all he could see was a pair of feet in the dark, where the cat was licking . In the end, it turned out to be Harry, who he thought was his best friend. It turned out that the "third person" was Harry himself. He couldn't believe that Harry was dead, but when Harry really appeared in front of him, it seemed that a black novelist had encountered a black life: fiction, in front of reality, it was always the case Vulnerable. Then Hawley and Calloway discover that in Harry's dead coffin lies the missing handyman Joseph Harbin. Harry went to Baron Keez's house to talk face to face with Harry, and when Ryan said the most classic line in the film, Martins couldn't resist. "The Italians let the Borgias rule for three decades, they lived through war, fear, murder and slaughter, but they had Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland people love each other and enjoy Five hundred years of democracy and peace—but what do they have? Only the timekeeper." In this moment, Lane is the double angel of history. In the end, Calloway took Hawley to a mental hospital where the children were all victims of the Harry Penicillin incident. Hawley saw that these poor children decided to help the sheriff catch Harry. In the end, Harry was trapped in the sewers extending in all directions. The film reaches its most subversive climax when the maze of underground sewage in Vienna. This city divided by political and military forces has such a unified and free underground world. All the filth of civilization flows down and converges in this forgotten labyrinth of sin. Harry was struggling to escape, Ryan's hand stretched out to the ground, and the light fell on his hand, the filthy light. Hawley finally shot and killed him himself, probably thinking that Harry's final death at his own hands was Harry's best destination.
In the end, the story ends with Harry being rescued again in the cemetery, which can be said to be an alternative echo. The ending of the picture is frozen in Anna ignoring Hawley at all, without stopping. Because Anna loved Harry deeply, but Hawley killed him again, and Anna couldn't hate Hawley, after all, human nature is always complicated and intertwined with love and hate.
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