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Elyse 2022-12-14 03:19:49

I watched the third best film "The Third Man" at the Cannes Film Festival tonight. This film was filmed during World War II. The smoke of the war had just dissipated, but for Vienna, a city that symbolizes the high civilization of Europe, In the long dark night, I suddenly found that the traumatic memories left by the war are far more unbearable than the stings caused by bombs and gunpowder. Capitalism and socialism, two different and antagonistic ideologies, find common interests here. In the separation and separation, Vienna ushered in its "third party". This is a story about a search. Martins, a novelist from the United States, searches for his friend Ryan, but only one body is found, and Ryan is dead. As his friend, he was determined to investigate this matter, but found that a third person was following him during the investigation. He did not expect that the third person was Ryan. Ryan is dead, but alive, like a ghost. So, in the dark corner, on the secluded porch, the black cat fled away, walking like a god of death. The director used the relationship between the two and the changes in their status as a metaphor for the political environment at that time. In times of war, humanitarianism is always so fragile and false. After the British Air Force destroyed Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, and of course Vienna, when people suddenly discovered that the respective camps of the representatives of the United States and the Soviet Union had become one in the same group in the entanglement of interests, who still has enough moral strength to calm down To question Ryan's despicable behavior? All the filth of civilization flows down and converges in this forgotten labyrinth of sin. The angel of vengeance did not descend from the sky, but climbed out of the sewage pipe.

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  • 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.