However, the believers of the film manual have to admit that it was an American film that became the originator of the true author's film. Later, all those who followed the film imitated or were affected by it. This is for the French filmmakers such as Truffaut. The respected citizen Kane.
Of course, this movie was not made for everyone to watch. The author himself was like chewing at first sight. Only after I was getting older, I watched it again before I felt that I seemed to have a sense of feeling.
Wells is the Shakespeare in the history of film. His films are all known for the complexity and darkness of human nature. This film is its highest artistic achievement and an encyclopedia of film art. It is worthy of repeated observation and learning. Interpreting human nature, interpreting life, and understanding all kinds of complex film language are none other than this film.
Because of my shallowness, I really don’t deserve to comment on such a great work that is as beautiful as Shakespeare’s plays, so I only intercepted one of the characters to discuss it, that is, a female image in the film, and her significance in the film is extremely influential.
I remember that when I watched Shakespeare’s love history, I only felt that the structure was chaotic and the performance was mediocre. Paltrow’s Golden Statue was really lucky, but there was an actor who played only 7 minutes that I will never forget, that is, I played Yili. Judy Dench of Queen Sabah.
Some actors have an unforgettable charm, even if only a few minutes, it is as shocking as thunder.
Among Citizen Kane, there is also such a short-lived but shocking actor, that is, Angie Moorehead, who plays Mrs. Kane.
I would like to dedicate the title of a genius actor to her.
She is dressed in black and has a conservative hair style. She is entirely a Victorian Puritan image.
The most impressive thing is the sharp contrast between her and her husband and the interesting angular position between her and the three men in the scene.
Undoubtedly, being forced to send her son away as a woman and mother is a painful thing. There is only one reason for her to do this, and that is the despair of her husband and the hatred of marriage.
In this scene, she and her husband, the sloppy, always hunched over and knew that they were an incompetent, cowardly and greedy small shopkeeper. There was no close contact at all, and there was no eye contact at all.
Investigate whether a couple’s relationship is harmonious in life. You can get accurate answers by just looking at their eyes together. A good relationship must always be gazing at and communicating with each other, and a couple doesn’t bother to look at each other. Couples, you can imagine their relationship.
Mrs. Kane is a firm-willed, humiliated woman.
It was obvious that she was discouraged and deeply ashamed of her marriage. A woman like this wise, rational, self-esteem, and aristocratic arrogance would marry such a fool, either because of poverty or out of weird impulse. After finally disappointed with that man, the only thing she can do is to get her son away from his father, her husband who she hates but can't get rid of, and a shameful marriage---a noble, serious and pious woman There is no divorce. She would rather die early in the shame she created, as a kind of caesarean revenge for the man who made her life miserable. From the later plots of the film, we do know that she passed away very early.
She signed firmly, ignoring her husband's rants, and was very close to the banker.
Her eyes are as cold as death, decisive, and decisive. We can feel her heart twisted. She is crucifying herself, suffering, in order to save her son, and to avenge her husband and father.
Maybe she didn't expect that her son would also become a victim of this revenge. Kane has everything but love.
Wells himself made no secret of the psychological significance of the film, calling it a simple Freud reader, and that is what is missing.
If a woman is disappointed in marriage, it is disappointed in her husband. And the child is the person who can feel this emotion most.
If she is complaining, then the child grows up to be a grumbling person.
If she is indulgent, then the child is a person who is confused about marriage,
if she hates, then the child will infect her hatred.
Mrs. Kane hates her. She is afraid of failed marriages and poor family conditions. Therefore, Kane is a person who is eager to succeed and fears failure. He wants to get the love of everyone, but he did not learn to love, only learned to hate and hate. control.
This is how people are, and what they pursue all their lives is what they lost or didn't have in the early years, but they still haven't gotten them. The lost innocence can't be bought by money.
Only when calling her son and holding him in her arms, her eyes are feminine, gentle, shining with the light of maternal love, and this last pitiful love is the life of her son. What is pursued but not possible.
In a sense, it was she who made Kane's life missing.
Therefore, there are no good people and bad people in the strict sense of Wells's works. There are only realistic people. The image of mother also has a dual personality of good and evil. On the surface, she wanted to let her son get a better and more comfortable life and become a rich and successful person, but the deeper reason was a vicious revenge against her husband. This person naturally possesses the mysterious, dark male power and female viciousness of Mrs. Macbeth in Shakespeare’s works. Therefore, this female image is the most artistic and human charm in the film. Later, Kane’s wife, mistress, They are all superficial symbols, a model representing elegance and virtuousness, and a mixture of desire and innocence. They do not have the complicated personality and psychology of a mother, and the performance of the actors is also weak and formal.
Although these three female images are all tools to interpret the protagonist's character, but the image of the mother is the most successful portrayed, she has created the complicated life of that complicated person.
It is said that Wells lost his mother when he was young. He may have truly understood the meaning of rose buds when he grew up in a wealthy home. Fortunately, art has saved him, and his genius is worthy of the gift of art.
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