The Life of A Man: A ShortTake

Rating: 9/10 (13 December 2007)

Please let me give you one short critic: -"Citizen Kane" is old, but is needed. It's breakthrough over technical implementations made it classic and a milestone. Overall, it's not fun as we are accustomed in the Hollywood way. It narrates the life of a man, in the view of others, while searching his ultimate secret lying on his last word: "Rosebud". Movies usually involve people in front of a conflict, solving it, learning the lesson. "Citizen Kane" is an racconto of a life, it's a progression of lessons and conflicts.
"Citizen Kane" lasts so long because it's story vents every story of man; not in the content, but in the manner of being told. Every man has his story, every man and women will lye on their bed before dying and try to remember her life by one image, one word, one feeling, one movie. Although Charles Foster Kane, the Citizen, (a memorable Orson Wells) has wealth, a lovely wife and power, he cannot buy what he misses most and he falters over the memory of his most (and everyone's) precious moment: childhood, where every story begins; and where we want to go when it ends. The innocence that is sacred, irremovable. The beginning of every story.