Films/DVD Asylum

Movies from comedy to drama to your favorite Hollyweird Star.

Use this form to submit comments directly to the Asylum moderators for this forum. We're particularly interested in truly outstanding posts that might be added to our FAQs.
You may also use this form to provide feedback or to call attention to messages that may be in violation of our content rules.

You must login to use this feature.

Inmate Login

By default, logging in will set a session cookie that disappears when you close your browser. Clicking on the 'Remember my Moniker & Password' below will cause a permanent 'Login Cookie' to be set.

Moniker/Username: The Name that you picked or by default, your email. Forgot Moniker?	Examples "Rapper", "Bob W", "joe@aol.com".
Password:	Forgot Password?
	Remember my Moniker & Password ( What's this?)

If you don't have an Asylum Account, you can create one by clicking Here.

Our privacy policy can be reviewed by clicking Here.

Inmate Comments

From:
Your Email:
Subject:

Message Comments

Original Message

RE: The Third Man ... one of the all-time greats

Posted by halfnote on August 4, 2007 at 21:58:15:
sEE IT!

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD!

Harry Lime, the achitypical, nihilistic amoralist, despite this great charm and sophistication, is chased into the sewers like the rat he really is. His writer friend, who comes to investigate his death, ironically, is the deliverer of it, an act in which the ideals of friendship and the greater one of human decency collide -- and yet, though the moral decency of the writer ultimately triumphs, the death blow is nonetheless one of friendship and sympathy. Even Lime, in the end, knows he does not deserve to live.

This brief sketch is just skating the surface of this mythic and haunting film -- which is not only notable for its superlative and engrossing screenplay, but which also contains some of the finest cinematic work in film history, not to mention an absolutely unforgetable soundtrack comprised of a single instrument, the zither.

It's a film you can see over and over again, which never fails to reveal some new facet of meaning and irony you didn't realize before.

The ending sequence is the most evocative and eloquent ever, period.

I ain't seen em all. But of all the ones I seen, this is one of the very, very best.