LETS TALK ABOUT FILM, PLEASE

Rating: Null/10 (6 May 2004)

It occurs to me that most of you, with all due respect, should get their priorities straight. Namely: there's the movie of Citizen Kane itself, which is rich enough to provide for lots of interesting questions, and there's the question wether it should be rated best movie ever made. However uninteresting the last question, it seems the one most of you are trying to answer. If you want to know wether it really is the best film ever made, or the worst or second worst or third best, i suggest you do that somewhere else. Let's talk about film, if you please.
How can one say that rosebud is not interesting? Can anyone explain that to me? Why should i forget about it, when it seems to play such an important role in the story? Maybe i need not know what it meens, or maybe it's wrong to try to find out the truth behind it, but it sure asks to be thought about.
And how about the collectioning-fetish of Kane? Why statues? I think, maybe, because you can count on statues not to leave you, always to be there.
Another interesting view on the piece as a whole is the question: say that you have all the power you want, not only moneywise, but you seem to be able to persuade people into doing almost anything. In other words: you have total control over your life, and it seems you can mold it into anything you want. Does that guarantee happiness? No, because Kane got everything he planned for, but not the thing he really wanted: love (and giving it). So then: the thought that we have that control over our lives is an illusion.
Next: the mystery of man is as old as man himself. As long as we have been on earth, we've also been trying to find an answer to the question: who the hell are we? The reporter trying to find the truth about rosebud (which, in turn would be the truth about Kane), is a symbol for man trying to understand man. In the end he says something like: 'the truth about a human being is not to be found in a word'. Therewith saying that man (Kane) will remain a mystery.
Anyone thinks this makes sense or not? SHould i be thinking about Citizen Kane in these terms or not? Please react, i could be wrong about everyting.