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In a film born out of rebuilding the future, Green, Reed, and the entire cast produce the fatalism of idealism of what a just world should have been, but that this life is, as always, a zero-sum game.

Seamless in its entertainment factor and compelling long after the end credits roll, The Third Man is a cornerstone of British cinema and will be considered as such for generations to come.

The director, Carol Reed, weaves together various cinematic techniques to create an almost entirely unique experience, one that at times, almost feels like a showreel for what can be accomplished in the medium of film.

These means to fluidity, surprise, and persuasion, combined with the unreal reality of war-stripped Vienna and the incidental locales... give the whole film a percussive fluency, like a plausibly scripted nightmare.

The preeminent film noir of all time.