walking at night

Kianna 2022-10-06 07:09:26

After watching the entire film, the first impression is Keigo Higashino's "Walking in the White Night". As a 1949 film, there is really nothing to be picky about. It is almost perfect. Even the composition of each picture is preset. The editing of several scenes is also very smooth, including the last chase scene in the underground pipe. If it weren't for the reason of the picture or black and white, I can't even believe that it belongs to the late 1940s.

When the film progresses to the middle part, it begins to take a sudden turn, and the cat also plays a role of taking over, """It only likes Harry", and then it cuts to the cat finding Harry and sitting on his shoes, but Harry is completely in the dark at the moment, because Harry should be a dead person. The use of animal spirituality is also mentioned later. Even when the sewage pipe was searched, a military dog ​​sensed Harry's location.



As things gradually came to light, the relationship between the characters began to change slowly. All the memories of Harry began to gradually deviate from all reality. The love that his girlfriend thought, and the best friend that Martin thought was Harry asked Martin to come and say yes. Finding a good job was the beginning of all crimes, but what he didn't realize was that he didn't know Martin very well, at least as a friend.


After that is the chase of the last big play, when everything is clear, just wait for Harry to be caught. But it started like a little joke that the director gave us. First, an old man who bought a balloon appeared on the stage, holding a balloon and leaning on a cane. The beginning of a stressful event as an emotional springboard. But it is also using shadows to illustrate the question of who this third person is. Regarding the shaping of Harry, many elements of shadow are used in the film, which is also a portrayal of Harry's character. No matter day or night, Harry can only be a shadow, living in the shadow of his past. Including the last scene when it appears on the ground and when it escapes, it uses shadows to correspond, and the details are handled very cleverly.





There is also such a shadow element in the underground pipeline, and this shaping is even more exaggerated.


When halfway through the chase, Harry fled to an intersection and didn't know which way he should choose to escape. At this moment, he heard that every possible entrance was an exit for the police to find him, like a trial for his own crime. , Every hole has a voice of condemnation, and the judgment of hurting those young children is also the judgment of the inner conscience.


Harry was shot and climbed to the exit, but was unable to open the iron gate, which, for him, was a threshold forever imprisoned in the night.


In the end, Martin found Harry, but there was no first reaction to shoot. Instead, Harry reminded Martin to shoot. Although this story seems to be a story of betrayal by a friend, Martin is on the side of justice, and we are more inclined to this so-called However, this betrayal is still a partial betrayal. It seems that at the last moment, Martin still hopes that Harry at this moment can escape. Harry's final death is actually a kind of night escape.

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The Third Man quotes

  • Maj. Calloway: I told you to go away, Martins. This isn't Santa Fe. I'm not a sheriff and you aren't a cowboy. You've been blundering around with the worst bunch of racketeers in Vienna, your precious Harry's friends, and now you're wanted for murder.

    Holly Martins: Put down drunk and disorderly too.

    Maj. Calloway: I have.

  • Harry Lime: Nobody thinks in terms of human beings. Governments don't. Why should we? They talk about the people and the proletariat, I talk about the suckers and the mugs - it's the same thing. They have their five-year plans, so have I.

    Holly Martins: You used to believe in God.

    Harry Lime: Oh, I still do believe in God, old man. I believe in God and Mercy and all that. But the dead are happier dead. They don't miss much here, poor devils.