The accompanying recommendations included a 4.38 piece in
which Bogdanovitch explains why The Third
Man is so brilliant. I don’t want to know why it’s brilliant. It just is.
As soon as some expert starts explaining why a film is brilliant it loses the
core of its appeal, because you become an observer of technique rather than
being subsumed into the story and the atmosphere. The Third Man is the sort of film which is better felt than analyzed.
Film noir is all about being subsumed into the story and the
atmosphere. It’s a kind of magic. So would Mr Bogdanovitch and all the other
experts please shut up and allow us to be transported into another
dimension unhindered by expert opinion.
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