No matter what, Harry is in love with Anna. He sneaked down to Anna's downstairs, and he wrote Anna's name on the Ferris wheel, all showing that he loved her. He didn't help Anna just because he had his own philosophy of life, and he had to protect himself first.
From beginning to end, Anna's feelings for Harry have not changed. Even if she knew about his black market dealings, she just said that a person doesn't change just because you know him better. "He's real, he's not just your friend and my lover, he's Harry." She said he was part of me and I couldn't do anything to hurt him.
The friendship between Martin and Harry seems to be so deep. Martin, who first arrived in Vienna, has no relatives and is poor, but in order to find out the truth about the death of his friend Harry and fight the police, he insists on staying there. He followed the clues so decisively and tenaciously, but when he found out about Harry's business of selling counterfeit drugs, he was completely disappointed with his friends and decided to leave and never care about these things again. He said "I don't care how he died anymore" and "maybe I'll kill him myself".
When the colonel asked Martin to be the bait, Martin was very firm at first: "After all, it was a friendship of twenty years. I can't be the line between you." But this determination was shaken too quickly, and he agreed on the condition of helping Anna. Colonel. Is friendship so vulnerable in the face of love?
Anna refused to use herself as Martin's bargaining chip to betray Harry, "I love him, you love him, what have we done for him for love?" Martin seemed to change his mind and understand that he couldn't betray friendship like this. It's a pity that the colonel was very clever and took him to the hospital for children disabled by those fake medicines. The colonel won again. For Martin, this time, conscience triumphed over friendship.
And Harry didn't seem to value their friendship for Martin. On the Ferris wheel, Harry might have pulled out a gun and killed Martin if Martin hadn't said the police found Harbin in the coffin. In the sewer, although he heard that Martin was walking towards him, he still took out a gun and killed the person who came. He doesn't care about sacrificing his best friend for his own survival.
If Harry hadn't killed Paine, Martin might have been a little too embarrassed for his actions. But there is no need to worry about anything at this time, the friendship between the two should be completely broken by now. So he picked up Paine's gun and walked towards Harry.
At the end of the film, Martin got out of the car and waited for Anna, who came from a distance, but Anna walked by without anyone else. In the end, love wins and friendship ceases to exist.
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