A Shared Persective

In Nick's latest post about the common view of the War taken on by the Third Man and Das Boot relates closely to another point mentioned earlier regarding the way in which the actual politics were represented in each of our films.

In The Third Man and Das Boot, politics were specifically avoided because the producers of both films were making statements about war itself; not the regime, but the horrible atrocities that can be brought on by such regimes. And most likely not simply by happenstance, these were the two films which created (and concluded with) the solely grim and dark mindset. In contrast to The Bicycle Thief, where the mindset is on the other side of the spectrum, as is the take on politics.