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Stylized cinematography, editing, and acting are all essential to expressing the themes and general effects of the film noir genre. The Third Man, typical of this genre, is full of fascinating film techniques dealing with camera angles, movement, blocking, cuts, and overall placement. ...
The film opens with an appropriately dreary scene of Harry Lime’s funeral. ... Otherwise, the entire sequence has very few shadows and is uncharacteristically high key, probably just because the scene takes place outdoors in broad daylight. ... As the camera follows the car, it becomes increasingly evident that there have been no cuts at all throughout this section of the scene, and that the shot has had a very long duration. ...
The second funeral scene closes the film, symbolizing that the plot has made a full circle, and arrives back where it began.
Approximate Word count = 590
Approximate Pages = 2.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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