A sled changes a person

Mae 2022-04-24 07:01:02

It should represent the level of filmmaking in an era. I didn't see too many characters' souls, just saw a lot of editing traces "with immature but new ideas at the time".
Kane's fate was completely changed on a snowy day, and perhaps his sleigh became his eternal pain ever since. I really don't understand how people with different personalities and identities like his parents can be together. It's probably full of unspeakable secrets.
Later, educated by aristocrats, he has ideas, revenge, justice, and a heroic complex. But it also gave birth to his conceit, and let him go further and further on the road of serving the people.
He claims to love everyone, but in fact he loves himself the most. The reason why he is willing to do so much for everyone is that he just wants others to love him, not really love everyone.
Then I really can't see anything, he misses his sled because he misses the little boy who hasn't been changed?

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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.