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.