Director-Carol Reed 1949 108minute
Screenplay-Graham Greene
Starring-Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles, etc
Impressions
Tasty classic works
The story develops in the beautiful cityscapes of Vienna with tasteful images.
It is a black-and-white image, and BGM is made with only sitar’s sound.
It feels like it was made based on a simple thinking in a good way.
It is a classic and is considered a masterpiece, but for me it was unsatisfactory.
A villain with presence
Harry who plays Orson Wells as a bad man is cool.
Although he is doing wrong, the feeling that is intellectual and somewhat gentle impression is a deep villain.
The scene where Harry shows her face for the first time from the dark is playful and interesting.
At that time, Harry had a face that exquisitely mixed the joy and surprise that he could meet Holly.
It is a very impressive scene.
The scenes Holly and Harry talk about in the Ferris wheel are really nice and tense.
I felt scared that scene where Harry opens the door of the Ferris wheel and threatens Holly quietly
Such villain speaking quietly has more depth and more fear.
As Orson Wells plays a tasteful evil, the depth gets deeper into the story from the second half of the story.
Are they really friends?
Holly and Harry are friends for twenty years, but they did not look like that very much.
As friends worked quite wrongly, when Holly knew the truth and met Harry, he should have been angry, he should have asked about the truth Harry as a friend.
Holly accepts such facts quite cheaply, so there is no internal fight and it is unsatisfactory.
Even Harry is a mafia boss, Harry does something wrong, Harry is just a friends for Holly.
If Holly touches with Harry in such attitude, I think that it became a deeper story.
Also Harry should have struggled with joy of meeting friends and weaknesses doing bad things.
With such conflicts they repeatedly argue, that is fine if they break away.
Otherwise why did Holly bother to come and see Harry?
What are friends for them?
Unnecessary doubts came up, and the story got off track.
Holly may have known that Harry was originally likely to work for wrongdoing, but if it was so, it would be strange to call such untrustworthy man as friends, and he did not have to come to see Harry.
First motivation for Holly to move around is that when Holly came to see a friend for the first time in a long while, a funeral of his friend was held and inexplicable testimonies were heard from around him.
I think that the story becomes dramatic as their relationship is stronger.
In the last scene, Holly deal the final blow to harry who can not escape.
It is certainly a cool scene, but Holly should have discussed more with Harry before that?
Holly decided to fight with harry after seeing the policeman was shot by Harry, but it is too late.
Although Orson Wells playing Harry certainly has a taste, I thought it was regrettable by thinking that this story might have become more interesting.
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