take it according to its time

Rating: Null/10 (29 August 2005)

I just visited "the message board" of the movie and I saw a thread titled "this movie is over-rated". Well I never do pre-judge a movie without seeing it or say anything bad about it without reading about it. "Citizen Kane" is a very old movie even for middle-aged people of 2000s. Given that I just turned my 21 I knew perfectly well it wouldn't be a flawless experience for me to to see the movie.Yeah to be honest at some points(in the beginning)I felt bored but seriously I said to myself: Come on this movie must be at the top of IMDb list for a reason right?" Then I displayed the required patience and I am pretty glad that I have seen this movie at last.Like Jorge Luis Borges said this movie is a "metaphysical detective story". Its subject (both psychological and allegorical) is the investigation of a man's inner self, through the works he has wrought, the words he has spoken, the many lives he has ruined. All we need to do is to combine and reconstruct the fragments of this man's life portrayed perfectly by Orson Welles.With that in my mind I loved the movie and I do know that I gotta evaluate a movie according to the time it is produced. Think about it its production date is 1941 and some techniques used in the movie --series of jump cuts shot on the same set while the characters changed costume and make-up between cuts so that the scene following the cut would look as if it took place at a time long after the previous cut. --Unprecedented use of deep focus. In nearly every scene in the film, the foreground, background and everything in between are all in sharp focus. If you are very young and not patient enough you may not appreciate the movie but if you can be patient enough you will understand why so many people give high points to that movie but it is the time-honored fact that "Citizen Cane" is a very old movie and it is still associated with Hearst-Welles struggle.