"Citizen Kane" or "Notorious"?

Of the two films we have viewed from the 1940s ("Citizen Kane" and "Notorious"), which one do you prefer and why? Refer to the quality of film techniques used by the directors at least once for each film in your answer..

Citizen kane

I think the film is an extremely excellent film because of its bold narrative structure and flashbacks, especially deep focus. I surprisingly know it was the first film by a young man, Orson Welles. I admire and respect Welles genius and innovative brave to open up my mind. The first, I still don't understand the reporter’s efforts to search for the answer to the “Rosebud” even though I have watched it twice. It's a depth film. It's a worth film for watching again and again. Whenever I watched it, I emerge different feeling and thinking about the film. I will always remember is Kane indignantly destroys every precious thing in his luxurious main bedroom, until he finds the crystal globe and mumbles, "Rosebud." It seems tell audience what he exactly want. The scene is deeply touch my heart; however, I am not easy to understand his physical manifestation that time. Also, I will understand Charles cannot stand his wife's chatter when they eat dinner every time and Kane quits Susan's vocal music teacher when he teaches her singing severely. After I read the commentary by Roger Ebert, I better understand the representative meaning of “Rosebud.” it is the most meaningful for him, so he spend his life to pursue and to seek his security, hope, and content. After I watched this film, I passionately shared with my son. He said the film is famous with its deep focus. I would like to recommend the film for my son's friends who graduated with a film degree. I hope they will learn more from "Citizen Cane.

Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane

I personally don't think that Citizen Kane deserves to be "the greatest film of all time". I think the issues are from the phenomenon of American-concentric point of view. “Our information of the cinema is too much based from American's point of view.” my son told me.

 In the film, Citizen Kane, I was impressed by the unique technique that the director has used in the film, in which called "Deep Focus."My son is a filmmaker; we had a discussion about why it's a unique technique for that time. It was one of the first times when filmmakers used deep depth of field that keeps everything in focus. In this sense, if everything is in focus, we can have actions happening simultaneously in the foreground, mid-ground and the background. By doing so, many stories can be told at the same time within one single shot. I believe this would be very hard to direct. This was found very clearly in the scene where the child was playing with the snow outside of the window while conversations were going on inside the house. 

I would recommend the film for my friends because I think “Citizen Kane “has its own unique approach in film making that is very important for the film history.