"What is Success"

Alivia 2022-04-22 07:01:02

This film by Orson Welles has been discussed too much in terms of technique. In addition to the technique, the complicated patterns of those political innuendos are removed. Just look at the different interpretation of the word "success" in "Citizen Kane". , was enough to arouse some doubts about ultimate values ​​in 1941. So far, human beings have been in society, and the foundation of success has always been money and power. Human desires are radial, and as soon as they touch anything, they attack it immediately. Kane was originally a puppet restrained by the desires of others. When he began to resist, he automatically became the executioner who restrained the desires of others. He was obsessed with childhood innocence and joy, which was just one of his endless greed. The principle of equivalent exchange is destined to gain something and lose something, so in the human world there is no such thing as success or failure, it is the product of certain rules. It is only when a person is about to die that he notices how good life was when he was a child without rules. Although the time is too late, it is comforting to chat.
January 16, 2012

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  • Tabitha 2022-03-22 09:01:08

    Now watching classic movies that are still good-looking.

  • Laurianne 2022-03-24 09:01:10

    Why do I think Billy Wilder is more talented than Orson Welles

Citizen Kane quotes

  • Charles Foster Kane: This gentleman was saying...

    Boss Jim Gettys: I am not a gentleman. I don't even know what a gentleman is.

  • Charles Foster Kane: Don't believe everything you hear on the radio.