rose bud

Rating: Null/10 (12 March 2010)

Unfortunately Citizen Kane didn't make me jump out my seat. I don't think personally that the subject matter appealed to me, but I did appreciate the way things were presented. The dark and gloomy beginning was great to represent death and the movie of Kane's successes was nice to put in the beginning because it threw off the audience and also gave a motive to go back and research his life more thoroughly. It was sort of evident to me in the beginning that they weren't going to find what this rose bud was.
Orson Wells played the character beautifully. He made Kane seem invincible like he was "the man". Charles Kane was funny, determined, and charismatic. Although it may have been just how he was remembered or seemed to be it made the flashback worth remembering. Probably the thing that most stood out for me when watching was how Orson Wells lined out the position of things and created things to look at everywhere. He would have Charles mother in the foreground, his father in the middle ground and Charles playing outside all the way in the background. Or in the opera house scene how people were passing by the camera as to get to there seats in the foreground, yet you could see all the preparations going on in the background. The also most clever thing I saw was how they had time pass when Charles would have meals with his first wife. I loved the scene because it showed how time passes , but if effort is not put forth in making things better things will just remain the same and get worse. Lastly, something occurred to me when I watched the flashbacks I wondered if it would have been better in color because it could have showed more of the person's perspective of the time and show how the time periods were different from one another.