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Thursday, March 13, 2014

"Seven Days To Noon" and "The Third Man" : atomic diplomacy vs penicillin diplomacy

"The Third Man" and "Seven Days To Noon" were filmed so long ago they are old enough to be old age pensioners,  but these two gripping films remain classics of postwar british cinema and fine time capsules into the mindset of western civilization post-1945.

Seven Days is an allegory about American 'go-it-alone' atomic diplomacy while the Third Man , Harry Lime , acts as a stand-in for Josef Mengele in a film allegory that sees the ultimate expression of evil being the murdering of innocent children by the doctors they trust - in this case , a corruption of penicillin diplomacy.