Wake Up Everyone

Rating: 6/10 (14 June 2000)

Honestly, I was suprised to see imdb users have given such a high rate for Citizen Kane. I feel that most of people were mindcontrolled by the fact that Citizen Kane was chosen by AFI as the greatest American film that has ever made, and have given this film such a high rate without judging by yourself. In my opinion, there are lots of film which are better than this one. I believe Citizen Kane is selected as the greatest American film not because of the quality of the film itself but because of its meaning for the history of American cinema. Orson Wells was the first director to be given the almost full contorl of the film production, and it means alot in the American film history, as well as the new technics he used in this film(eg,pan focus) I watched Citizen Kane and Howard Hawks' Bringing up Baby on the same day and honestly, I was more impressed by the later film. I'm not criticizing that Citizen Kane is such a bad film, but I doubt if this is the greatest American film ever made. It's more plausible for me to acknowledge that this is the one of the most important films that has ever created from the historical perspective of American cinema. For me, Orson Wells's masterpiece is "Touch of Evil".