I must dismiss my bias, up front, by telling all of you that this is my all-time favorite movie. For me, it crystallizes the ultimate Hamletiam predicament, the tearing apart that occurs that when your best-loved best friend turns out to be a rotten scoundrel. An opportunistic person whose lust for wealth tramples on the medical needs of wounded soldiers, pregnant women and suffering children. This movie is filled with comic relief moments, but what makes it excel is the ultimate test of the moral dilemma. What do we choose, an amazingly and seductively appealing friend who happens to destroy lives with his greed, or an obnoxious bureaucracy that just happens to be morally right in this case?
One comment on the moral cloudiness of the current generation. I would bet anything that more viewers side with Harry Lime, today, than against him...
One comment on the moral cloudiness of the current generation. I would bet anything that more viewers side with Harry Lime, today, than against him...