Citizen Kane1941

“You know, Mr. Thatcher, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man.” This is my first time watching this movie. Watching a movie when the only thing you know about it is the “twist” or reveal definitely changes one’s perspective of the film.  But as no one word can encapsulate someone’s life, no one fact can encapsulate a film. Especially a film as magnificent as Citizen Kane.  The challenge this film gives its audience is to decide what kind of a man Charles Kane is after witnessing a third-person scope of his near-entire life. Was Kane a great man? A good man or a bad man? Misunderstood, misconstrued, or misrepresented?  In my mind, Kane is a man who resented his privilege, who was searching for love and innocence and everything else he had lost and lost even more along the way. Until all that’s left is a memory.  “I can remember everything. That's my curse, young man. It's the greatest curse that's ever been inflicted on the human race: memory.” — On a visual level alone, Citizen Kane is a masterpiece. So ahead of its time in so many aspects. I wish I could have seen this movie so much sooner. But I’m glad my first viewing was in the theatre. If any classic film needs to be seen on the big screen, it’s this one.  “That's all he ever wanted out of life... was love. That's the tragedy of Charles Foster Kane. You see, he just didn't have any to give.”