Superb film, although very sad

Rating: Null/10 (26 July 2004)

As much as I'd hate to admit it, I saw Citizen Kane on TCM for the first time this month and I can't get over much an amazing piece of film making it was. I'm not going to dissect the movie here because greater minds that mine have already done so, but I will say I was struck by how sad it inevitably was. A small boy who is taken from his mother and told he is now rich and that he must act rich ... when all he wanted to do was be a boy and play in the snow. The photography was stunning and the related effects were magnificent. Judging by some of the shots and what they were meant to convey, you can see what a brilliant man was Orson Welles. I'm sorry I waited so long to see it. I won't wait so long to see it again.