Citizen Kane (1941)
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
They say it was a pioneer in many cinema aspects. Who cares? What is it about? A total waste of celluloid.
This is a great movie. Even tho the first time I watched it I couldn't fully understand the whole meaning of it.
Now, here's a film that truly was ahead of its time. Orson Welles' passion project, on which he had the coveted 'final cut', could easily pass as much more modern fare thanks to some frenetic, unique camera-work and effective scene transitions. The plot of 'Citizen Kane (1941)' is compelling, told using longer takes that really give the excellent actors room to flex their proverbial muscles, and the flash-back based narrative does a good job of keeping you invested in the life of a man you know already to be dead. Yet, the mystery at the centre of it all, the iconic 'rosebud', comes to a close with a lack of proper resolution. It does shed some light on the motives of the central character and isn't meant to be the main focus of the feature, though. There's more in the craft of the piece than in the narrative, especially on re-watch, but the story and characters are compelling enough that the experience is an enjoyable one, all the same. 8/10
Citizen Kane, as the movie says, "he wasn't brutal, he has done things brutally". The movie gives us a perspective of America's culture integrated with the biographical evidence through flashbacks. Mystery is discoursed during the interviews with Kane's friends. It shows us that even if you have the power to buy all of the ancient masterpieces such as statues, diamonds etc. , you are not perfect in life. Kane ha ups and downs and due to his lost childhood, he has a missing piece from his puzzle. This film makes the audience search for a man called "Charles Foster Kane" to see if he is a real person yet fictitious. It is classified as a mystery movie, but it is, indeed, a biographical drama.