Spare us your father's words

Rating: Null/10 (23 August 2002)

I don't know what to say or write about Citizen Kane at this point. Frankly I don't know that I'm qualified to write about a movie of such grandeur. Two points I can make though, one about AFI and one about user comments.
Firstly, regarding AFI and this being their number 1 film of all time, I assume that this is to be taken in the context of AFI as the greatest American film of all time. If so, I can begin to relate to how it's portrayal of the American dream is very signifigant. Otherwise, don't get me wrong, by no means do I not realize the legacy of Citizen Kane, but I feel by the discrimnating AFI holding such a title to this film, they should definetly write a comprehensive paper to accompany this.
Additionally after reading the user comments, it seems like most people are just blindly throwing praise at this film for no reason, jumping on that bandwagon, with no true opinion or ability to appreciate art within themselves, and by doing so, only regurgitating AFI's opinions and those of a generation before them. By this I do not mean one's ability to enjoy a film, I believe that most are true to their own feelings on what films they enjoy and which they do not, but what I mean is all the pretensious comments saying things like 'This is the greatest film ever' without a firm thesis. Have you no opinion of your own?
I don't think that many people who have made their comments on Kane are qualified to make their comments, because I believe they have most likely only viewed the film once or twice and have done no research in any attempt to further appreciate or understand the times or the film.