Something about it plays on my mind

Rating: Null/10 (24 September 2001)

I watched Citizen Kane for the first time yesterday. It is a fine film, but why is it playing so much on my mind? It's about a man's life, about winning, about collecting, about losing, then selling and burning. It is about a wish to return to childhood because of a growing alienation in adulthood. Citizen Kane is about us, about the castles we try to build, about our noble passions in our youth, about our alienation when the cunning of the world destroys the object of our passions, about our selfish passions, our madness for love, about our destructive passions, about the loss of faith and the loss of passion, about rejection from the world and rejection towards the world. It is about smoke, as the memory of the man and his passions is burnt away. I think that's why it plays on my mind so much. Orson welles was this passion.