Scottie believes he may be able to acclimatize himself and be cured.As she supervises, as a mother might do, he first starts out with a small stepstool.He hopes to gradually get used to the sensation as he chants: "I look up, I look down":We""ll start with this.BackgroundThe Third Man(1949) is a visually-stylish thriller - a paranoid story of social, economic, and moral corruption in a depressed, rotting and crumbling, 20th century Vienna following World War II.He was trapped inside the sealed treasure chamber where he was soon consumed by a swarm of chittering flesh-eating scarabs as his torch extinguished.When seen by American audiences in the early 1940s during the progress of World War II, the implication was obvious hat Hitler""s evils in Europe could also inhabit the ethos of the sacred American/western frontier.A few days later, the busybody, garrulous and eccentric neighbor Minnie, with her hair up in an odd, white polka-dotted scarf, pays a visit.