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“The Third Man” (1949) is a visually stylish thriller, a story of social, economic, and moral corruption in Vienna following World War II. It was produced and directed by Carol Reed, and based upon screenwriter Graham Greene's mystery tale of a love triangle, nightmarish suspense, betrayal, guilt and disillusionment, filmed expressionistically in a decadent 20th century Vienna. Within this backdrop is a naive writer of pulp westerns, Holly Martins, a frivolous name to define the nature …

…truth that his friend is a monster. It can be stated that through out the narrative Hollys naivety is transformed into knowledge in the sense that he finally understands that through out his years Lime has been using him and the trip to Vienna was just another attempt to have him as his fall man as Holly remarks to Calloway when he’s drunk. “Harry never got caught, it was always me or someone else.”