Reviews of Citizen Kane 1941
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"I'm not sorry." - Charles Foster Kane
Charles Foster Kane. What a character. A staggeringly complex and ambiguous protagonist if there ever was one. I'd go so far as to say he's up there with Daniel Plainview. Because, from where I'm looking at it, Citizen Kane is the There Will Be Blood of its time.
And, thing is, it's far ahead of its time. Opening with a hypnotic, almost horror-movie feel in a dying man's final moments, and following this…
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I guess it's ahead of its time. It's not a good film for the first watch. Seeing it for the second time brought out more of its elements to me.
The first time I watched this the whole film seemed like a whirligig of activity and moved too fast. The second time I caught up with what each scene is trying to impart.
One of the reasons that made this and make this successful besides its use of techniques known…
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Inventive, brash, energetic, supremely clever drama with a witty, intelligent, incisive script is full of powerful scenes. Well-acted, carefully made, painstakingly detailed, and technically exhilarating – there is a wealth of astounding shots. A dramatic, eerie score and exceptional cinematography. As the title character, Orson Welles goes from charismatic to scary. Agnes Moorhead makes a stark impression as his mother. Welles’ passion for the medium is palpable.
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I had been putting this off due to it's reputation. I was foolish.
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Hace ya bastante tiempo que vi esta película por primera vez, pero no vengo con exageraciones sobre ella. Vengo a darles y analizar mis primeras impresiones que tuve sobre Citizen Kane, un breve análisis sobre ella y mis conclusiones.
No es la mejor película que he visto en mi vida, no tiene una trama espectacular, sombrosa, que te deja boquiabierta, no, y no lo digo porque no me halla gustado, de verdad no la tiene, y tal vez lo que… -
Got to watch this movie for a school project.
Thank god for amazing teachers, huh?
Nobody will ever compare to Orson Welles ever. Again. -
News on the march. Great pacing, great effects, fantastic film
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Watched this for the third time today and felt no less thrilled than I had felt the first time. A visionary's masterpiece, and a predecessor to Rashomon in certain aspects, IMO.
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obligatory film student film. BRILLIANT!
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its terrific
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It lives up to its reputation, almost, although I wouldn't say it was the greatest. I can see why someone might though. The acting, the timeless special effects, the story construction and I could go on and on naming off qualities and they can all be described as flawless.
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It generally is a film that gets talked about in discussions of the greatest ever, so it had been on my watchlist for a while. But most films talked about in those discussions, especially from the early part of the 20th century, somehow always tend to let me down, (Vertifo, Dr. Strangelove, Psycho, Raging Bull) resultantly I wasn't exactly excited about the film. That said, Citizen Kane is better than what I expected, the direction is really very good, the…