Review of Citizen Kane (1941) by Deanomite — 18 Jan 2020

Had not seen in 20 years, I felt younger just watching it. Photography is extremely solid, it felt a little like Psycho in opening shot. Tricks were amazing, the snowball zoomout was genius, camera work all around is stellar.

Perfect use of film reels for plot, like putting the plot I the pillow shots. What a fantastic study in narcissism, he lived his whole life with no empathy, he refused to consider the perspectives of others.

Pretty good, 'you don't love me, you just want me to love you.' The dialog is amazing. 'i see, it's you that this is being done to, not me at all.' His wife had the best lines. Also, the thesis is about how most of our wounds come from early childhood, the worst may come trying to prevent some other thing that was the worst, his mom sent him away to protect him from his dad, but regardless of that and wealth, Kane became injured all the same, like it was in his genes.

he was made narcissistic as a child, before he was sent away, the mom was clearly too beat down to love him and his dad was too angry to love him really.