Third man-carpenter Flashcards
What does the third man capture during the earliest stages of the cold war?
tension, mutual distrust
What questions are being raised in third man about Lime and Martins?
Harry Lime’s guilt or innocence, heroism, anti-heroism.
Martins compicity or duplicity, honor or dishonour.
What does the film ask, according to Carpenter?
who should be responsible for the destruction of evil.
Why does Andrew Sarris believe that Anna is right?
He feels that in a decandent world moral responsability is personal rather than social.
in political terms what does the film ask?
Who should be responsable for the destruction of totalitarianism?
What has Vienna become`?
A police state. A state restricting individual mobility and reducing identiy to a piece of paper.
What does Lime embody?
the attitudes from which the police state arises when he says that the governments does not think of humans in terms of human beings.
Does Lime identify with Hitler and Stalin
Yes
What does Lime underline with his Borgias speech
His political connenction and identifies thee two attitudes, inhumanity and humanity. Totaliteriansism vs. democracy.
What is the film noir style`?
intricate plots, cynical heroes, pessimism,fatalism and menace
Does the film depict the attractiveness of evil?
Yes
