Discuss the way Carol Reed's technique affects our response to the last fifteen minutes of The Third Man You could question why Carol Reed chose to shoot the film in Vienna. I think it was supposed to symbolise Harry Lime. It was beautiful but the film is filmed just after the Second World War. The place was crumbled and it lay in ruin. Carol Reed had built up a lot of tension in the square already when the soldiers are waiting for Harry Lime to appear. So he had to find a way to release some of it. The drunken...
Rose's soul mate dies and she's left with nothing but time to think about it. Yet, despite this Titanic had the biggest box office viewing of all time, worldwide.

Carol Reed took the risks and came out the other side with a fantastic film. The Third Man seems to delve into different genres it has romance, mystery, tragedy, comedy and action. The storyline is fairly simple so you don't have to work too hard to follow it. It also raises the very controversial question "Are we who we are? Or are we just what other people think of us?"