Review of the movie, "Citizen Kane"

Rating: Null/10 (31 March 2011)

"Citizen Kane" as one of the strong break-out films of the early 1940s. The film opens up with the death of our hero. Prior to this, there haven't been too many films that showed the demise of their main characters (especially a death at the beginning of a film). This was one of the many ways that this film attempted to break away, and be different from the films representing the Classic Hollywood Style.
The film doesn't play out in any chronological order. It jumps back and forth from present day to the life of Orson Welles' character. In the usual films of the time, rarely did the main character struggle with the female characters. In "Citizen Kane", Charles Foster Kane is originally married, but he then destroys his first marriage for another love interest. In many ways, this was a more realistic film than other films of its time. It dealt with the true troubles of many men and women.
The film showed a complete downfall of the main character. Charles Foster Kane was a man who had everything, but couldn't handle it. In the end, the only thing he longed for, that was probably robbed of him, was his childhood. Sadly, Orson Welles' character dies an old man in a broken down palace. This was a great experimental project that remains, to this day, to be one of the greatest motion pictures of all time.