Oakley Tapola CK Review
I thoroughly enjoyed Citizen Kane...though I have seen it before when I was much younger and way less capable of comprehending the granditude of its complexity. It makes an enormous amount of sense that CK would be on the best movies of all time list. The cinemetography is striking and presents the viewer with stark images that conveys the intensity of Kane's own character and his imminent doom...which is foreshadowed beautifully in the beginning Xanadu newsreel scene. That is actually one of my favorite segments of the film, when the newreel cuts out and you are suddenly caught off guard by the actual start of the film: a bunch of men sitting around in a screening room feverishly smoking cigarettes and theres a beatiful light from the projector room streaming down through the smoke. The interview scenes with the flashbacks are a brilliant way to pace the movie and as the story unravels the veiwer is allowed to grow to understand Kane's plight as a lonely, lost human being. Vs movies today Citizen Kane seems equally as thought-provoking and groundbreaking. Most films today seem to follow a prescribed outline in order to become box office hits with the occasional indie film...an even those have their own set of rules. CK is in the vein of the films of today that are equally as shocking: films that question the American Dream and the ideologies that we, as a consumer culture live by...and I dont believe there are too many of these films being made...so thats why this movie stands up to the test of time. It is equally as poignant as it was when it was first introduced...if not more considering our current state of being.