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Review on movie "Citizen Kane"

Citizen Kane
Having success the first time around is very uncommon. Orson
Welles's first feature film richly realizes the full potential
of excellent craftsmanship. Citizen Kane is almost indisputably the
greatest achievement in the history of filming. In 1941, this film was
considered by many as the best film ever made. This film is about the
enormous conflict between two twentieth-century icons, publisher
William Randolph Hearst and the prodigy of his time, Orson Welles. The
rather overwhelming beginning of an opening sequence is still as
electrifying as any in the history of movies. That tarnished sign on a
forbidding black wire fence is the first thing we see in Orson Welles'
Citizen Kane. Citizen Kane is a movie about perception and
projection. Indeed, with the complex theme the whole movie seems to be
placed in a kind of psychological trauma for the viewers. Citizen Kane
is a portrait of a public and private figure that remains tantalizingly
unfi...

Posted by: Helene Hannah

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