why it is good

Mabelle 2022-04-19 09:01:11

When watching this movie, some people said that this movie is boring~~~
I just smiled slightly, and I didn't feel that there was a conflict of ideas with each other. Appreciating a thing is often not a matter of level or taste, or even a matter of preference. In addition to carrying many personal emotional factors, there is also a very important point of view.

All great works, if they leave the times, their greatness will be weakened by most. Many excellent works in history may not be lovable and outdated today. But at that time it was a pioneer and it was new. Perhaps because its appearance shocked the whole aesthetics, people scrambled to imitate it, and now people feel that it is outdated everywhere.

Aside from the avant-garde techniques of the film at the time, the film itself is beautiful.

The form may be outdated today, but its interior is still thought-provoking, and even its form itself brings joy to perception. This is what is called good.

In addition to being a film textbook, this film is also a textbook for psychoanalysis.

KANE's life is constantly being replayed by some people.
The humblest and most necessary need in everyone is not food and clothing, but love.
His whole life has been chasing the love that was missing from his childhood. Even if he is rich and famous, he cannot fill the hole in his heart. He wants a lot of love. He seeks love wholeheartedly, but like those statues, he doesn't open it, he doesn't appreciate it, but he doesn't throw it away. He has no ability to love. So his life was a tragedy, from the moment his mother left him, from the moment the rosebud skateboard was taken from him.

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Citizen Kane quotes

  • [Susan is leaving Kane]

    Charles Foster Kane: [pleading] Don't go, Susan. You mustn't go. You can't do this to me.

    Susan Alexander Kane: I see. So it's YOU who this is being done to. It's not me at all. Not how I feel. Not what it means to me.

    [laughs]

    Susan Alexander Kane: I can't do this to you?

    [odd smile]

    Susan Alexander Kane: Oh, yes I can.

  • [On Kane finishing Leland's bad review of Susan's opera singing]

    Mr. Bernstein: Everybody knows that story, Mr. Leland. But why did he do it? How could a man write a notice like that?

    Jedediah Leland: You just don't know Charlie. He thought that by finishing that notice he could show me he was an honest man. He was always trying to prove something. The whole thing about Susie being an opera singer, that was trying to prove something. You know what the headline was the day before the election, "Candidate Kane found in love nest with quote, singer, unquote." He was gonna take the quotes off the singer.