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.
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