Fogarty.Anna.The Third Man

How does the film The Third Man treat evil?  One of the main character in this movie is Harry Lime, who's funeral is the scene that starts off the movie.  Harry Lime was a very into some very bad things some of his friends and girlfriend find out.  Things that most normal people would consider evil.  After one of his good friends named Holly Martins found out about Harry's evil ways he was astonished, he had no clue that such things were going on in Harry's life.  After he finds this out something even more astonishing happens, Holly Martins sees his friend Harry, who is supposedly dead, in a very dark corridor.  Harry also happens to be hiding out in the dark underground sewer systems. Harry's girlfriend Anna Schmidt was being sent back to Germany and he wasn't even bothered by this, which shows you how dark and uncaring he was about others. While cinematically analyzing this film you find many ways that it portrays this evil that Harry Lime is involved with.

The first thing that helps portray Harry as a dark and evil person is when his friend Holly, who thought he was dead, sees him in a very dark corridor.  This scene is very eerie in the sense that this man is supposed to be dead and his friend sees him in a dark place with a cat by his feet.  This scene was filmed at night to portray the evil of Harry and his actions.  The cat also makes us think of scary or evil things, just as we associate cats with Halloween and being scary.

Second of all after Harry faked his death he hides out under the town of Vienna in the sewer systems.  This part of the film symbolizes his hellish ways and how he is acting in very evil ways.  Not only were the actions he was doing evil but it's arguable that to fake your own death would also be considered evil.

Last but not least this film shows us how Harry does not care much about many people in his life.  His own girlfriend is being sent back to Germany and he could care less.  So who's to say that he actually cares about any of his friend.  In the film Harry had also shown that he didn't care about anyone by the business that he was running. He was taking medications, diluting them, and then selling them to people who were in great need of them because of the scarcity.  Due to him diluting the medication, Harry was knowingly killing people. This did not at all bother him because he was very successful and was making a lot of money due to this operation.

These are only three things from the film The Third Man that portray the evil that is in this film.  Many other things in this film do help to portray the evil within but these were the three main things that I found. 

Snow White

In the movie Snow White the literary lens of psychoanalysis is used.  Snow White uses Electra complex by creating a relationship with the dwarfs.  Snow Whites father died and she lived with her evil stepmother.  As Freud says when you are young you want to be a daddy's girl or if you’re a boy you want to be a mamma's boy.  This is true in the movie because she had this fixation and was able to fulfill it at a young age, but after her father dies she is unable to. Snow White sings of how she is longing for love and wants to find a husband.  According to Freud when you look for a spouse at a later age, you will look for someone who is like your parent.  Snow White probably longed for love because of the loss of her father.  So when she finds the dwarfs and is able to care for them and clean for them she gets some of that fulfillment out of it.

This wicked witch in this movie uses repression.  She knows she is not beautiful so represses the feelings she has toward her ugly self by casting a spell that made her beautiful.  This is because she wanted to be the fairest of them all.  She can repress this feeling because she is beautiful so she forgets that she really is an ugly witch.

Haley's TED Talk

I thought that Haley presented her TED Talk very well.  She talked about how joining gymnastics helped her to become less shy, more confident, and a perfectionist.  The way that she presented this showed how she had become less shy,  she went up there with good confidence and you could tell. I knew her in elementary school and there is a huge difference in her attitude, she is much less timid and less shy. The videos that she presented us, one that was from when she was shy and one from when she became outgoing, really helped to show the change and went along with the presentation very well.  You could tell she was confident in what she was talking about because she kept her voice at a good level and you could tell she really cared about the topic.  I also liked how she compared her experience with gymnastics to others and used a serve to show that it is actually proven to help people come out of their shells and become more outgoing. She also compared herself to an Olympic gymnast and that helped me to understand where she was coming from even more and really helped improve her speech.

There were only a few things that I thought you could have done a little better.  One of these things was making your quotes just a little bit bigger, they were kind of hard to read.  This did not bother me much though because you explained each quote very well.   The other thing I would suggest would be to maybe show the video of when you were younger and talk about how you used to be shy, and then show the video that showed how you had become more out going towards the end. Again this did not bother me I just thought it might have made the speech flow a little better.

GREAT JOB HALEY you gave a very nice presentation and I enjoyed watching it! Keep up the good work! (: