Until the end of his life, Citizen Kane remained mentally stagnant at the moment when the snow was flying away from his parents.
This is an atypical biographical film. The film rarely focuses on the career achievements of the newspaper tycoon, but uses a structure similar to that of a suspense film to present the life course of the betrayal of Citizen Kane, and the reason-the rosebud of mystery? This is also where I am most interested in this movie. What internal factors make the supposedly "happy" life a disaster.
Losing the company of parents is a great loss to the growth of a child. The fear of not getting maternal love and protection forms a huge psychological barrier. In fact, Kane is very self-conscious all his life, and has a strong self-protection subconsciousness, even in the face of friends and lovers around him. His friend critic Li Lan said: "He is unwilling to give... he only loves himself... and his mother... Charlie Kane’s story is: how he lost love..." Kane finally He lost all his friends and lovers because he couldn't get out of the psychological imbalance of "I don't have maternal love, everyone has to make up for me". This kind of "I am a victim" mentality is indeed a lot in life, so there are many live examples of "Kane" style. How similar is the experience of music superstar MJ? He even thought of building a castle to protect his fragile soul, but he couldn't get rid of the ending of Paradise Lost.
A question worth thinking about is whether a person's life has been framed by childhood experiences? After the long life can't be changed? In fact, at least on the surface it looks like this. People’s ability to change themselves increases with age, but their willingness decreases. The subconscious "will" will weave some reasons to convince yourself not to change, because change will always experience pain. Over time, the "destiny" is thus solidified in the rest of one's life.
If there is a voice in the depths of the soul asking Kane, "Fate is unfair to you? Forget it, don't stay in the same place and be compassionate. You think you are a poor bug, and there are more people who are more miserable than you. Rosebud has passed, forget it and burn it, you This coward! The soul is stuck in the same place, why should life move forward? It is better to die as soon as possible. If you still have expectations of the world, please step on your legs and move forward." Will Kane's life change? Maybe or maybe not, countless ordinary people in life are experiencing a dialogue with their own hearts. After all, the few who can cross themselves...
(Why recommend four stars instead of five stars? The allegorical black-and-white light and shadow transformation is indeed a great film technique, but it is too uncomfortable to use too much.)
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