o paradox - madman, the only one concerned about the fate of God, o the sense of anxiety - standing in the face on nothing - nothingness o Heidegger - the same disorientation - gives us something important philosophically - interview our relationship to nothingness o Dostoyevski: "If God did not exist, everything would be permitted" o Sartre - human being is considered - nobody is going to figurę it out for you# a human being has an entire responsibility for morality, that's why his literaturę was obnoxious - puts responsibility on everybody;
■ FREEDOM - a huge burden, not a cozy buzzword, to be free is a horrible thing, entails responsibility,
■ he says: existence comes before the essence; essence - it is there before the things even exist, they make you YOU, the notion of the substance - this is how we get immortality, but it is you who creates who you are, ifs up to you what you make of that existence, no one can be blamed, human naturę - humans make their naturę, we are responsible for who we are, this is a horrifying fact, \?s just us -morality is entirely our responsibility now,
■ human naturę - CHOICE - WE decide what human naturę means - but this choice is absolutely collective - because we together make it -profound social responsibility
■ natural laws - humans are responsible to the world (it opens up a space for ecological movements, responsibility for environment, naturę)
• style - heavily emphasizes the look of the b&w film
• content - the type of genre that doesn't tell about nice things - criminality, underworld, dark side of human naturę, violent genre, the subject matter is grim,
• written by Graham Greene, directed by Carol Reed in 1949