Citizen Kane film review

Citizen Kane is a landmark work in American film history. The film describes the ups and downs of Kane, which is the life of an ordinary person in a specific era and an extraordinary life. Kane's childhood was quite poor, but full of sincere love. An unexpected fortune brought him to a different life. He grew up in a big city, made a fortune, set foot in politics and became a man of the hour. He was promoted by marrying the president's niece, but his political career was ruined by his affair with the singer. In his later years, he lived in seclusion in a luxurious manor, but he lived a lonely life because of the departure of his second wife. His life was brilliant, but he ended his legendary and tortuous life in loneliness.

The film begins with the suspense of "Rosebud", and describes in detail all aspects of Kane's personality from different angles through the memories of different characters, thus creating a complex, contradictory, multifaceted and complete character image. In the manuscript "Memories of Kane's Agent Sechel", it shows the process of Kane's wealth, and thinks that "he is a person without principles and irresponsible for his actions"; Kane's colleague Bernstein described his hard-working spirit and thought he was upright; Kane's good friend Leland described his personal life, thinking that he had superior intelligence, but he had no faith and only himself in his heart. Kane's second wife Susan recalled their love life and revealed his pursuit of love, extreme selfishness and strong possessiveness. Kane's housekeeper Ramon talked about his loneliness and pain in his last few years. The film expresses Kane with the eyes of five people. Each of them only saw Kane's side, which was true and one-sided. But it is these different and even contradictory aspects that make Kane on the screen become a three-dimensional image with rich connotation, full flesh and blood and distinct personality.

Through the descriptions of these five people who are closely related to Kane, we can see all aspects of contradictions in Kane's character. For example, he opposed his "Metropolis" company to exploit the people as a shareholder, which was considered by financier Sechel as "actually * * * party member", but he acted arbitrarily and was considered a fascist; He built the Chicago Opera House for Susan to perform, but criticized her performance with the sharpest words in all newspapers. He dismissed Leland, but sent a check for 25 thousand yuan; He longed for love, but destroyed it with his own hands ... Kane's contradictory character was created and reflected by that era. America is Kane's belief. He is called democracy, pacifism, patriotism, * * * production party and fascism. He insisted that he was an American. The characteristics of greed, arbitrariness, ruthlessness and selfishness embodied in Kane were actually the distorted universal humanity of the United States at that time. The capital accumulation at the expense of exploitation and humanity has caused the extreme lack of material wealth and emotion, which is the biggest contradiction in Kane. He has unparalleled power and wealth, but his spirit is extremely lonely. Economic and political pursuits destroyed his emotional pursuits. He longs for love and gives it, but capital distorts his soul and regards love as a kind of possession, so he can't get true love. His greatest tragedy is that he can't forget this feeling.

It is difficult to make an exact evaluation of Kane. Like other characters in the film, the Kane we see is just a silhouette of Kane in our eyes. Maybe we see more Kane's personality than them, but who dares to assert that he knows a complete Kane, just as no one dares to say that Hamlet in his eyes is the real Hamlet. However, there is a comment that fits Kane's image in my heart. "He is a selfish hero, and he is going to ruin in the extremely inflated desire ..."

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