Landmark of the film Industry

Rating: 9/10 (25 April 2017)

Going all the way back in to nineteen forty-one and reviewing after finally watching Citizen Kane is an interesting experience to say the least. Also this two hours film in a few years is going to be eighty years old, so watching it and now reviewing it is like time-traveling and been a Whovian to the core I can't but feel goosebumps.
So the film is centered to a group of journalist who try to find out what the final words of a publishing tycoon Kane meant. During their visiting we get by numerous a persons, friends, adversaries, once loved ones to him who was Kane. Everone is giving us a different take, others say that he was a annoying arrogant fraud, some a brilliant entrepreneur, others a bossy and authoritarian figure. During these interviews and read we see flashbacks of his life and how his people next to him perceive him. In other words we don't take the same portrait from two different people for Mr. Kane, this is also true in life, for one a man maybe funny and quit interesting, while someone else is going to find him a obnoxious A-hole, you can be liked to anyone I guess.
One thing which struck me about the film is that it begun with a about ten minute montage of Kane's life, in short Orson Welles spoils the events from the get go. But after-wards what we get is the point of view of these events from the people who were doing them , but never from Kane himself ,which is ironic having the title character not been the central character. In truth Kane is the key of the plot and the plot is...wait for it... who was he really? If you had to summarizes the whole movie it comes to that who was he, a hero, a scum, an over-ambitious man, it is in the end up to the viewer to decide who he could judge him.
This why I believe that this film has become one of the classics, it is a case study of the life of a man from his start to his final days and after-wards the people around him ,the pre-mentioned friends, adversaries, loved ones and added to them the press are going to give their point of view about him. In other words we are the protagonist of our own movie, which is our life (!), the audience and the critics the persons surrounding us who will give their own grade to that matter from 10/10 to 0/10.
All in all it was a great character study and if you are interested in psychology, sociology or public relationships you have to give it a watch.