I’m going to an express a contrarian view to this question (most movie fans will scream “OF COURSE YOU MUST”): It depends. Do you like black and white movies? Can you pay attention to a movie that does not have…
No one can ever truly know who another person really is. I know, it’s a simplistic view of looking at the film, but follow: The movie is about the search for meaning of something – what is Rosebud? – that…
Because he didn’t know any better. I’ve read quite a few articles about Kane, as well as numerous interviews with Orson, and my view is that he was able to make Citizen Kane the masterpiece it was (and is) because…
I think that anyone who thinks the reveal of Rosebud at the end of Citizen Kane is anticlimactic are missing the primary point of the movie. Citizen Kane is not a traditional narrative. Charles Foster Kane is revealed to the…