Thank you very much for the recommendation, Capo. I appreciate that. I wasn't at all familiar with The Third Man, but it's obviously a classic.

And I suppose that we could attach the post-modernism/post-structuralism label to many of the great works. It's a theme that appears in all works of art, not just film of course. I chose to center my 'review' on Dostoevsky b/c John Brandon actually makes reference to Crime and Punishment during one of his exchanges with Rupert. Dostoevsky was of course one of the founding fathers of existentialist thought. His character in Crime and Punishment, Raskolnikov, was an adherent to the then new philosophy of nihilism PRIOR to murdering the old woman. He gains a new outlook after his crime, however.