Even today, 80 years later [2021] this film still looks so advanced
It’s hard to imagine that this is the work done by filmmakers in 1941. Although the art of film has developed so far, everything in the film We have already studied and understood all the theory about practice or method, now film workers have mastered it, but it is still a complicated task to manage these techniques and methods perfectly, and Orson Wells is in It was perfect 80 years ago.
In each era, there will be some products "not belonging" of that era, scientific, cultural and even ideological, and this film is obviously one of the products that are beyond the era, although Orson Wells won in 1975 The “Lifetime Achievement Award” awarded by the American Academy of Motion Picture Science and Art, and the film later became one of the world’s greatest business cards. The film was actually not loved by the general public when it first came out, and it was even suppressed and suppressed. criticism. Of course, this involves various social and commercial struggles and oppositions, but the film as a great practice of the film itself has not received due respect.
As a masterpiece of film history that will endure forever, there will undoubtedly be an infinite number of viewers watching this film-and it is only in the category of theoretical possibility, although this will not affect its greatness in the least, perhaps Orson Wells I would never have imagined that its "rose bud" became a veritable phrase, and 80 years later, it was once again lost by the universal crowd on the wasteland of information avalanche.
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