Essay On A Match And The Public Enemy

In the film clips for the endings of both Three on a Match and The Public Enemy, the resolutions of these films seem to make these films okay for the production code. Both of the directors for both of these film were able to get away with all kind of things consisting of alcohol, alcohol distribution, drugs, child abuse, adultery, premarital sex, murder, the mob, violence, kidnapping, revenge, and so much more. These directors were able to get away with things like this because they made the protagonists pay for their crimes with their lives, as neither of the leads got away with any of their sins. These character have seemed to get worse and worse with they actions throughout the film, so much so that they are affecting the lives of the people closest to them. …show more content…
His potential death is only possible after she has been the reason he was introduced to these men because Vivian made him stay with her when she left her husband. Vivian's adultery and alcohol and drug use are the things that dug her into this horrible relationship and lifestyle. Both of these films do a little extra from even just killing off the “evil” protagonist by ending the films with a little message explicitly using them for examples. For example, in The Public Enemy they last thing shown is a screen of words that calls Tom Powers “not a man” and “a problem we much as solve sooner or later”. Since Tom did not make it to a point in which he saw all that he had really done, there was no way the filmmaker could make an excuse for Tom and let him live or even let his memory live on positively. This is just was Three on a Match does, one of the last two things in the film is of Vivian’s son praying for her soul. We are allowed to feel bad and even still wish the best for Vivian in the afterlife, because she reached clarity of all that she has done and sacrificed her life to make up for