Citizen Kane

Genre: Drama

Year of release: 1941

Director: Orson Welles

"Rosebud"

This movie is often critically acclaimed to be the best movie ever made, and if its not the best movie ever its pretty close. I may not have enjoyed this as the best movie ever made, but every thing in it is superior to every other movie I have seen, well ahead of its time. This movie is almost perfect and every scene feels polished and worked on, an attribute I love to see in movies.

Citizen Kane is about a group of newspaper men trying to find out what Charles Foster Kane's last words "rosebud" meant. They go and talk to all the people who knew him and maybe able to help and we go back in time and watch this certain persons memories unfold. I found this technique very effective and it was truly amazing.

Citizen Kane is often criticized by the dumb ass's that it is boring it is not boring, however I can see how a retard could think this as there are no Yipe Kia moments nor huge explosion or bat mobiles. It is a drama. If you don't like a movie because it is a drama it is not the movies fault. The acting in it is perfect, up there with Taxi Driver, Orson Welles builds his character perfectly and his speech was awesome. The story line in this is very awesome I love the hard times and the good times Charles Foster Kane gets put through. The Cinematography and the use of the shots is very effective. I love the first scene with Kane saying his last words and the way in which this scene has been shot. To go with the start I also really enjoyed the end. There was however one thing that annoyed me a little and that was one of Kane's wife's, her character wasn't bad just annoying, for example the way in which see talked.

Orson Welles pulls the part off like a legend. He makes you like his character very much and it feels like you are watching a real person. His character is quite bold and has very strong beliefs. He is a very good character and you see him through all his ages from a little child right until and old man where he dies, you get to see his character change through his age the way he changes from being childish when he is young to more serious but still just as awesome.

Each scene feels creative and highly thought out unlike some movies these days that feel like they just make the camera angles up on the spot, I like this aspect of this movie as it keeps me interested and makes the movie feel perfected. Some parts thinking back on make you almost jump up and down they are so well done. The scene at the start were it is snowing and we go up Kane's mountain and into the castle in which he lives to see him in his bed and whisper his last words "rosebud". Then drop the glass ball on the ground and it shatters. This scene could not be any better. I thought this about many of the scene the ending scenes are also like this one with it zooming out from his castle just like it zoomed in on it in the beginning.

Kane's wife the singer was a childish loud mouth that pisses you off. Her voice is very winy and high pitched. Her character I did not like it annoyed me however the acting for her part was not bad and her character did add to the story and added to Kane's character. Maybe the more I watch it the better I will like her.

I always love a movie not being in chronological order it makes people think for them selves work out what order things go in. I loved the way it was done in this. Watching the reporters talk to the older versions of these people who we then meet in the mind of the person being interviewed we see what that person was like back when they knew Kane how they have changed through looks and attitude how they were different when they were young.

In conclusion the more I think about this movie the more I believe it is the best ever made. It is well ahead of its time. Good Job Orson Welles you are awesome.

10/10