Started watching some classics after shifting to Coimbatore. I just grew a bit tired of some of the recent hollywood flicks. There seems to be a heavy deficit in intellect as far as movie making goes in these last few years. Anyway, the first movie was 'Citizen Kane' which although was great, somehow was below expectations (the movie is considered to be the greatest ever). Then, there was 'Anatomy of a murder', a courtroom suspense thriller. It was a much better one, but the plot unfortunately, was too simple.
           Now, coming to 'the third man'. Joseph Cotten is an amazing actor and he plays this young american who is literally broke. He comes to post-war Vienna to meet an old friend who had promised him a job. The movie opens with him arriving at Vienna only to find that his friend has died through what appears to be an accident. As he tries to figure out the details, things start to unravel. The post-war picture of a great city has been carefully depicted with a subtle mixture of beautiful buildings, rubble from bombing raids and impoverished people governed by the four conquering nations (allies).
          These movies show how much of ourselves that we have lost these past few decades. Beauty can be crafted out of  the smallest and most simple aspects of life, if we apply our minds to it.