A generation of movies that is lost

Rating: Null/10 (19 April 2004)

I have recently seen the movie Citizen Kane. I thought the movies was very good compare to many of the movies of today. I like the idea of putting three perspectives in the life of a person. At the beginning you have the death of Citizen kane and his final word "rosebud". Then it showed the media perspective of his life and who they thought he was. Then you have the perspective of his acquaintances who understood his personality in a different way. What other hidden information is the idea of a silent power. The power to control the human mind or to structure a social order. I notice this today by the media choosing what they considered to be important.

Some people's comments about rosebud as just being the name of his snow board are just not seeing the picture. That word meant his hidden emotion. Deep inside he didn't have what he thought his destiny was supposed to be. Money couldn't buy his love for his family and used his wealth for revenge. So in my perspective, Citizen kane was never a man of wealth. In monetary terms he did loose most of his money; however, in what was truly important to him was lost ever since he moved away from the family farm. In that perspective money is not wealth, love and happiness to be with people that loved was wealth. Since, he was taken from it, everything was lost from there on. The newspaper was just a scapegoat to hide his inner feelings. His reactions toward his wife, the singer, was to give her what he didn't have and that was happiness. He wanted her to be extremely happy, because he felt that she is doing what she always wanted to do.
The screeplay resemble the movie "21 Grams" and many other old and new movies. I like the way the movie started how Welles was able to mixed in different cultural perspectives in given us different ways of understand the persons life. Sometimes movies have hidden messages that are never found, because some people are to caught up in seeing things from their own perspective. I don't blame them for it because that is human nature and it is useful for our survival.
I don't know much about lighting and special effects, but that doesn't limit me from understanding the films objective. Today movies are being done very quickly, so the movie industry could make more money. Citizen Kane was consider was a commercial bust, but if the person takes the dream and objective than this could shape the way the person thinks about the world. To me that is more important, then just having movies that have many sex scenes, bad acting, bad scripts, putting songs that don't go along with the movie, etc.
Citizen kane has allowed directors to expand their talents and it is a movie that will be remember for along time. That is what makes myths, legends and Heros. Like Julious Caesar, he wasn't the firt emperor of rome; however, most people acquaint him to being the first emperor. His idea was the reason for the introduction of Augustus Caesar, his nephew Octavian. The same could be said about Citizen kane, orson wells ideas of the use of the camera for psychological purposes and the structure of the story is what made it remarkable. Ideas are what introduces inventions and inventions are introduce by a conglomerate of ideas.